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The best, most concise description of AI generated content (whether textual or visual) I’ve read (I believe it was here on HN) is that “it gets to the topic, bu

The best, most concise description of AI generated content (whether textual or visual) I’ve read (I believe it was here on HN) is that “it gets to the topic, but not to the point”. In other words, while GPT, DALL-E, etc. are good at making things that superficially match the prompt given to them, vaguely seeming coherent, the moment you inspect them closer they do not guide your attention, or create a broader artefact with inter coherent sub parts, the way a human artist/writer would. It’s hard to tell if that’s an inherent limitation of approaches based on statistical sampling rather than “true understanding” or not. That criticism has held so far over the last decade of progress, so I doubt “more parameters/training data/resolution/etc” is the answer.

noduerme 4y ago
A lot of designers just prostitute themselves to making the art as requested - very few infuse it with their own ideas. But they would like to. It won't surprise me if corporations replace them all with AIs. But people will see through it. It won't score as well. A decade or two might pass where almost all communication art is done by AI. In the end, designers will be in high demand because - Marvel movies to the contrary - you can't replace ideas and substance by just visually manipulating stuff. Even if that form of legerdemain works in the short run, it wears off because humans are drawn toward novel, human ideas. This is the whole reason 70s disco collapsed and punk music sprang up. The idea that you can endlessly sell generation after generation complete rip-off garbage runs into a wall because you have to dumb down the population to such an extent that e.g. they're all hooked on fentanyl and can't actually buy anything if you do that. So you then have to retread and market to the people with brains left, but they won't accept recycled corporate trash, and they're the ones you need to keep your brand alive. You can buy and shovel out all the Maroon 5 you want but you can't be cool unless you co-opt Rage or GnR or some band that's legitimately cool and meaningful to people and outside the reach of what everyone knows was already for sale. AI art is always gonna be corporate garbage regardless of how perfect it looks because the people who guide it will always be corporate douchebags.
- egypturnash 4y ago
  Disco was perfectly fine once it came back as EDM, with a much whiter set of faces behind the keyboards.

noduerme 4y ago

A lot of designers just prostitute themselves to making the art as requested - very few infuse it with their own ideas. But they would like to. It won't surprise me if corporations replace them all with AIs. But people will see through it. It won't score as well. A decade or two might pass where almost all communication art is done by AI. In the end, designers will be in high demand because - Marvel movies to the contrary - you can't replace ideas and substance by just visually manipulating stuff. Even if that form of legerdemain works in the short run, it wears off because humans are drawn toward novel, human ideas. This is the whole reason 70s disco collapsed and punk music sprang up. The idea that you can endlessly sell generation after generation complete rip-off garbage runs into a wall because you have to dumb down the population to such an extent that e.g. they're all hooked on fentanyl and can't actually buy anything if you do that. So you then have to retread and market to the people with brains left, but they won't accept recycled corporate trash, and they're the ones you need to keep your brand alive. You can buy and shovel out all the Maroon 5 you want but you can't be cool unless you co-opt Rage or GnR or some band that's legitimately cool and meaningful to people and outside the reach of what everyone knows was already for sale. AI art is always gonna be corporate garbage regardless of how perfect it looks because the people who guide it will always be corporate douchebags.

egypturnash 4y ago
Disco was perfectly fine once it came back as EDM, with a much whiter set of faces behind the keyboards.