Comment by bredren
6 months ago
This article seems to be three to six months past due. As in the insights are late.
>One animator who asked to remain anonymous described a costume designer generating concept images with AI, then hiring an illustrator to redraw them — cleaning the fingerprints, so to speak. “They’ll functionally launder the AI-generated content through an artist,” the animator said.
This seems obvious to me.
I’ve drawn birthday cards for kids where I first use gen AI to establish concepts based on the person’s interests and age.
I’ll get several takes quickly but my reproduction is still an original and appreciated work.
If the source of the idea cheapens the work I put into it with pencils and time, I’m not sure what to say.
> “If you’re a storyboard artist,” one studio executive said, “you’re out of business. That’s over. Because the director can say to AI, ‘Here’s the script. Storyboard this for me. Now change the angle and give me another storyboard.’ Within an hour, you’ve got 12 different versions of it.” He added, however, if that same artist became proficient at prompting generative-AI tools, “he’s got a big job.”
This sounds eerily similar to the messaging around SWE.
I do not see a way past this—-one must rise past prompting and into orchestration.
A prediction does not make a report late. And many things obvious to some people are not obvious to a general audience.
> If the source of the idea cheapens the work I put into it with pencils and time, I’m not sure what to say.
This is a straw man. The idea is part of the product.
> This sounds eerily similar to the messaging around SWE.
Yes. This similarity included how the executive's imagination and the individual contributor's experience differed.
> This is a straw man. The idea is part of the product.
It is a part of the product but I’m not sure I agree it is a straw man. (Side note I just realized the …absolutely no one… meme labels this fallacy!)
In music, few artists can count themselves as capable songwriters, producers, instrumentalist and vocalist recording artists and live performers.
Yet the front page of Rolling Stone is generally reserved for those on the tail end of the full stack of talent described above.
To continue the parallel, in SWE engineers are generally compensated better than non-technical product folks.
>... my reproduction is still an original...
I don't know how accurate that is.