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Comment by bamboozled

3 years ago

I've tried to convince artists to transition to the AI-augmented future, since October.

This comment is funny, "I've given the artists fair warning of 6 months that they're careers are over."

But the rest just want to pretend it doesn't exist, waiting till employers realize that they are no longer needed.

So when the employers fire the artists, who will replace them sorry? Will the C-level executives at my company be using DALL-E instead? How does it work? Would they just not hire a "creative assistant" who will probably hire other assistants ?

I've seen artist communities on multiple websites, in multiple languages. At first they tried to laugh at the AI. Now the AI has improved so radically so fast, they universally prefer to stick their head in the sand, and ban discussion of AI altogether, its all denial and rage.

I'd love to see these raging artist discussions? Can you link a few?

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notahacker  3 years ago

I'd also love to see a comparable thread on HN where some non-programmer rocks up, starts linking some forms he built using a low code tool to prove HN's skills are obsolete whilst modestly proposing that everyone here should forget about writing code and focus on business analysis and sales...

  • bamboozled  3 years ago

    Better yet, when an out of work artist learns how they can use ChatGPT 4 to replace most of the coders on hacker news then tells them it's important to remember to just have fun coding and not to worry about their high paying jobs.

    To rub it in, they might even call their project...an art project.

GaggiX  3 years ago

>who will replace them sorry?

A group of individuals who will use AI as an augmentation, even people with inferior drawing skills but able to get better results faster, a man with an excavator replaces several people with a shovel.

I'd love to see these raging artist discussions? Can you link a few?

I'm not OP but Twitter is full, you can start from @kortizart and find all kinds of account of people who are illustrators but now only rage against AI art.

  • bamboozled  3 years ago

    I saw almost no "raging" though? Yeah obviously concerned about the future of her profession and some difficult questions asked about IP theft and copyright, but that's about it?

    Edit: There is some raging in the replies but it's twitter and everyone is raging on there.

    There was some raging about Netflix using "AI" to generate backgrounds for a cartoon, but ultimately everyone will lose, including Netflix if this really is very automated, Almost anyone will soon be able to create a Netflix so I'll just cancel my subscription and watch free generated content uploaded to Youtube I guess?

    • UncleEntity  3 years ago

      > Almost anyone will soon be able to create a Netflix so I'll just cancel my subscription and watch free generated content uploaded to Youtube I guess?

      What’s wrong with that?

      I pretty much only watch people doing their thing on YouTube and I’m entertained enough. I have a couple years of tv shows I haven’t gotten around to watching because of YouTube peeps keeping me interested.

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