In actual fact, photoshop did kill graphic arts. There was an entire industry filled with people who had highly-developed skillsets that suddenly became obsolete. Painters for example. Before photoshop, I had to go out of house to get artwork done; now I just do it myself.
It changed the skill set but it didn’t “kill the graphic arts”
Rotoscoping in photoshop is rotoscoping. Superimposing an image on another in photoshop is the same as with film, it’s just faster and cheaper to try again. Digital painting is painting.
AI doesn’t require an artist to make “art”. It doesn’t require skill. It’s different than other tools
Even worse!!! What is consider art work now days are whatever that can be made on some vector based program. This really also stifles creativities, pigeonholing what is consider creative or art work into something can be used for machine learning.
Whatever can be replaced by AI will, cause it is easier for business people to deal with than real people.
This, as the article makes clear, is a concern I am alert and receptive to. Ban production of anything visual from an LLM; I'll vote for it. Just make sure they can still generate Mermaid charts and Graphviz diagrams, so they still apply to developers.
What is unique about graphic design that warrants such extraordinary care? Should we just ban technology that approaches "replacement" territory? What about the people, real or imagined, that earn a living making Graphviz diagrams?
Hasn't that ship sailed? How would any type of ban work when the user can just redirect the banned query to a model in a different jurisdiction, for example, Deepseek? I don't think this genie is going back into the bottle, we're going to have to learn to live with it.
Why not the same for texts? Why are shitty visual art more worth than the best texts from beloved authors? And what about cooking robots? Should we not protect the culinary arts?
Well, this is only partially true. My optimistic take is that it will redefine the field. There is still a future for resourceful, attentive, and prepared graphic artists.
AI didn't kill creativity nor intuition. It much rather lack's those things completely. Artists can make use of AI but they can't make themselves obsolete just yet.
Using AI makes you an artist about as much as commissioning someone else to make art for you does. Sure, you provided the description of what needed to be done, and likely gave some input along the way, but the real work was done by someone else. There are faster iteration times with AI, but you are still not the one making the art. That is what differentiates generative models from other kinds of tools.
AI can’t make anyone a painter. It can generate a digital painting for you but it can’t give you the skills to transfer an image from your mind into the real world.
AI currently can’t reliably make 3d objects so AI can’t make you a sculptor.
> AI didn't kill creativity nor intuition. It much rather lack's those things completely
Quite the opposite, I'd say that it's what it has most. What are "hallucinations" if not just a display of immense creativity and intuition? "Here, I'll make up this API call that's I haven't read about anywhere but sounds right".
I disagree. AI is good at pattern recognition, but still struggles to grasp causual relationships. These Made-up api calls are just a pattern in the large data set. Dont confuse it with creativity.
I'm an engineer through and through. I can ask an LLM to generate images just fine, but for a given target audience for a certain purpose? I would have no clue. None what so ever. Ask me to generate an image to use in advertisement for Nuka Cola, targeting tired parents? I genuinely have no idea of where to even start. I have absolutely no understanding of the advertisement domain, and I don't know what tired parents find visually pleasing, or what they would "vibe" with.
My feeble attempts would be absolute trash compared to a professional artist who uses AI to express their vision. The artist would be able to prompt so much more effectively and correct the things that they know from experience will not work.
It's the exact same as with coding with an AI - it will be trash unless you understand the hows and the whys.
In actual fact, photoshop did kill graphic arts. There was an entire industry filled with people who had highly-developed skillsets that suddenly became obsolete. Painters for example. Before photoshop, I had to go out of house to get artwork done; now I just do it myself.
No, it didn’t.
It changed the skill set but it didn’t “kill the graphic arts”
Rotoscoping in photoshop is rotoscoping. Superimposing an image on another in photoshop is the same as with film, it’s just faster and cheaper to try again. Digital painting is painting.
AI doesn’t require an artist to make “art”. It doesn’t require skill. It’s different than other tools
Even worse!!! What is consider art work now days are whatever that can be made on some vector based program. This really also stifles creativities, pigeonholing what is consider creative or art work into something can be used for machine learning.
Whatever can be replaced by AI will, cause it is easier for business people to deal with than real people.
Most of the vector art I see is minimalism. I can’t see this as anything but an argument that minimalism “stifles creativity”
> vector art pigeonholes art into something that can be used for machine learning
Look around, AI companies are doing just fine with raster art.
The only thing we agree on is that this will hurt workers
This, as the article makes clear, is a concern I am alert and receptive to. Ban production of anything visual from an LLM; I'll vote for it. Just make sure they can still generate Mermaid charts and Graphviz diagrams, so they still apply to developers.
What is unique about graphic design that warrants such extraordinary care? Should we just ban technology that approaches "replacement" territory? What about the people, real or imagined, that earn a living making Graphviz diagrams?
It’s more question of how it does what it does. By making statistical model out of work of humans that it now aims to replace.
I think graphic designers would be a lot less angry if AIs were trained on licensed work… thats how the system worked up until now after all.
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The article discusses this.
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Hasn't that ship sailed? How would any type of ban work when the user can just redirect the banned query to a model in a different jurisdiction, for example, Deepseek? I don't think this genie is going back into the bottle, we're going to have to learn to live with it.
Why not the same for texts? Why are shitty visual art more worth than the best texts from beloved authors? And what about cooking robots? Should we not protect the culinary arts?
> Ban production of anything visual from an LLM
That's a bit beside the point, which is that AI will not be just another tool, it will take ALL the jobs, one after another.
I do agree it's absolutely great though, and being against it is dumb, unless you want to actually ban it- which is impossible.
On the other hand it can revive dead artists. How about AI generated content going gpl in 100 days after release?
Well, this is only partially true. My optimistic take is that it will redefine the field. There is still a future for resourceful, attentive, and prepared graphic artists.
AI didn't kill creativity nor intuition. It much rather lack's those things completely. Artists can make use of AI but they can't make themselves obsolete just yet.
With AI anyone can be an artist, and this is a good thing.
Prompting Midjourney or ChatGPT to make an image does not make you an artist.
Using AI makes you an artist about as much as commissioning someone else to make art for you does. Sure, you provided the description of what needed to be done, and likely gave some input along the way, but the real work was done by someone else. There are faster iteration times with AI, but you are still not the one making the art. That is what differentiates generative models from other kinds of tools.
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AI can’t make anyone a painter. It can generate a digital painting for you but it can’t give you the skills to transfer an image from your mind into the real world.
AI currently can’t reliably make 3d objects so AI can’t make you a sculptor.
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> AI didn't kill creativity nor intuition. It much rather lack's those things completely
Quite the opposite, I'd say that it's what it has most. What are "hallucinations" if not just a display of immense creativity and intuition? "Here, I'll make up this API call that's I haven't read about anywhere but sounds right".
I disagree. AI is good at pattern recognition, but still struggles to grasp causual relationships. These Made-up api calls are just a pattern in the large data set. Dont confuse it with creativity.
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It will not.
I'm an engineer through and through. I can ask an LLM to generate images just fine, but for a given target audience for a certain purpose? I would have no clue. None what so ever. Ask me to generate an image to use in advertisement for Nuka Cola, targeting tired parents? I genuinely have no idea of where to even start. I have absolutely no understanding of the advertisement domain, and I don't know what tired parents find visually pleasing, or what they would "vibe" with.
My feeble attempts would be absolute trash compared to a professional artist who uses AI to express their vision. The artist would be able to prompt so much more effectively and correct the things that they know from experience will not work.
It's the exact same as with coding with an AI - it will be trash unless you understand the hows and the whys.
> Ask me to generate an image to use in advertisement for Nuka Cola, targeting tired parents? I genuinely have no idea of where to even start.
I believe you, did you try asking ChatGPT or Claude though?
You can ask them a list of highest-level themes and requirements and further refine from there.
Have you seen modern advertisements lmao? Most of the time the ad has nothing to do with the actual product, it's an absolute shitshow.
Although I've seen a little American TV ads before, that shit's basically radioactively coloured, same as your fizzy drinks.