Comment by bamboozled
3 years ago
I think the exact same thing, obviously because we're on hacker news where most people seem to be hoping they can spend their days prompting machines for art so they can replace "artists" and save some money.
It's actually funny when I think about it because most people wouldn't know what image to use and how to use it even when it was generated for them, there's even a skill in selecting art.
You could argue enough good photos have already been taken that all practically all photographers should have already been made redundant since the year 2000, we still have photographers.
I think if people are ignoring AI's limitations, it's more out of fear that programming is next than having something to gain. I doubt having the money/labour that's currently used creating art for something else would help me in a noticeable way:
-the money would just trickle up
-not that much money is spent on it anyway
-world becomes more depressing, nothing you look at had any effort put into it, no-one had to believe in an advert on any level, instead it's the output of a machine optimised to trick you (as one of a shrinking number of people with any agency) to spend and therefore make the machine stronger.
-artists/potential future artists decide to learn to code instead?
That reminds me of Ira Glass' quote about taste: artists know it when they see it.
Or why it's a mystery some folks prefer tabs vs spaces, or recoil from what they consider shoddy code.
Somewhere in the discipline of point, line, and perspective, in the composition of shapes and their organization, is the artifact of amalgamated neurons, to be observed by yet another consciousness.
I wonder if AI art will just help generate more gacha games. And one may wonder, of the limited time left on this planet, what really could we spend it on?
The library of every book contains no meaningful work in the search. The space of all generated art is oblivion.