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Cat’s out of the bag. Stable-diffusion runs on an m1 mac, is competitive with dall-e, and will soon be open source. Midjourney was made independently from dall-

Cat’s out of the bag. Stable-diffusion runs on an m1 mac, is competitive with dall-e, and will soon be open source. Midjourney was made independently from dall-e and is arguably better. This is the most revolutionary artistic tool to ever exist and anyone with a few thousand bucks can download a script from github and train it themselves. My advice to creatives is to figure out how to thrive in this new environment because you aren’t going to be able to hold back progress or stop time. (Don't worry, us programmers will be next. Language models can already generate training data in the form of tests for code-authoring neural nets.)

fariszr 4y ago
I mean CoPilot is already similar, no?
quitit 4y ago
The creative process, like many kinds of fields applicable to business is about problem-solving. AI text-to-image generation doesn't replace that function, however it does form an excellent tool, especially when it comes to rapid conceptualisation. This will allow more people to be creative problem solvers without needing to possess technical skills in image creation. Much in the same way that graphics apps allowed people to make image without needing to learn studio or art skills. Or DTP tools allowed more people to publish without the tedium and high set up costs. I will still be hiring illustrators and designers, and this may be one of their tools, and it would be their responsibility to be experts in it, but it doesn't replace them - it makes them better illustrators and better artists. The right way to think about this is not that it shrinks the field, rather it opens it and accelerates it - for that it's a very welcome addition. No creative is scared of this - they're looking forward to the next-generation approach, and it's clear that 2D images are not the end point. Soon we'll have 3D (already in progress), soon we'll have music, soon we'll have this for animation and programming. One can easily imagine all sorts of ways this technology can be implemented, take a simple example of a video game: Imagine a horror genre that hones into what scares the viewer and delivers further upon that.

fariszr 4y ago

I mean CoPilot is already similar, no?

quitit 4y ago

The creative process, like many kinds of fields applicable to business is about problem-solving. AI text-to-image generation doesn't replace that function, however it does form an excellent tool, especially when it comes to rapid conceptualisation. This will allow more people to be creative problem solvers without needing to possess technical skills in image creation. Much in the same way that graphics apps allowed people to make image without needing to learn studio or art skills. Or DTP tools allowed more people to publish without the tedium and high set up costs. I will still be hiring illustrators and designers, and this may be one of their tools, and it would be their responsibility to be experts in it, but it doesn't replace them - it makes them better illustrators and better artists. The right way to think about this is not that it shrinks the field, rather it opens it and accelerates it - for that it's a very welcome addition. No creative is scared of this - they're looking forward to the next-generation approach, and it's clear that 2D images are not the end point. Soon we'll have 3D (already in progress), soon we'll have music, soon we'll have this for animation and programming. One can easily imagine all sorts of ways this technology can be implemented, take a simple example of a video game: Imagine a horror genre that hones into what scares the viewer and delivers further upon that.