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I think there's going to be plenty of work in stacking multiple AI prompts or manual retouching to fix rough spots. It automates a task, not a job. Some people

I think there's going to be plenty of work in stacking multiple AI prompts or manual retouching to fix rough spots. It automates a task, not a job. Some people won't use it at all and other people will use it only for reference - in the end doing everything by hand, as usual, because they have more control and because AI art has a specific smell to it and people will associate it with cheap. But it's not just for art and design, it has uses in brainstorming, planning, and just to visualise your ideas and extend your imagination. It's a bicycle for the mind. People will eat it up, old copyrights and jobs be damned. It's a cyborg moment when we extend our minds with AI and it feels great. By the end of the decade we'll have mature models for all modalities. We'll extend our minds in many ways, and applications will be countless. There's going to be a lot of work created around it.

PcChip 4y ago
>AI art has a specific smell to it and people will associate it with cheap. It might now, but I feel like that will be trained out of it a few more papers down the line
- Larrikin 4y ago
  People rarely write assembly code nowadays because we mostly all use higher level abstractions that let us write more powerful code with fewer lines. There are plenty of small shops now where somebody knows a little Photoshop and can eek out a design that they otherwise wouldn't be able to using pen and paper. There are also professionals that use the Adobe suite to enhance their abilities they've cultivated for years. AI art will simply be a tool that enhances artists but might take away some low hanging fruit jobs similar to how web frameworks pushed people out of the job of webmaster and into more specific roles.
adrianN 4y ago
If you automate part of a job, you need fewer people doing the job. We still have farmers, but we automated enough of the job to do the same work with a thousand times fewer farmers.
blensor 4y ago
I think the first business to crack will be stock image sites like shutterstock. Those were already used in a "let's find something that roughly fits what I want to communicate with this text" way. Today I created a quick get well soon card using an image from the new Midjourney beta and I have to say the result was exactly as good as if I had used Shutterstock but it took me much less time because the search prompt matched created something I wanted on the third try. Comparing that to sifting through pages and pages of vaguely relevant images it's a clear win and a lot cheaper

PcChip 4y ago

>AI art has a specific smell to it and people will associate it with cheap. It might now, but I feel like that will be trained out of it a few more papers down the line

Larrikin 4y ago
People rarely write assembly code nowadays because we mostly all use higher level abstractions that let us write more powerful code with fewer lines. There are plenty of small shops now where somebody knows a little Photoshop and can eek out a design that they otherwise wouldn't be able to using pen and paper. There are also professionals that use the Adobe suite to enhance their abilities they've cultivated for years. AI art will simply be a tool that enhances artists but might take away some low hanging fruit jobs similar to how web frameworks pushed people out of the job of webmaster and into more specific roles.

adrianN 4y ago

If you automate part of a job, you need fewer people doing the job. We still have farmers, but we automated enough of the job to do the same work with a thousand times fewer farmers.

blensor 4y ago

I think the first business to crack will be stock image sites like shutterstock. Those were already used in a "let's find something that roughly fits what I want to communicate with this text" way. Today I created a quick get well soon card using an image from the new Midjourney beta and I have to say the result was exactly as good as if I had used Shutterstock but it took me much less time because the search prompt matched created something I wanted on the third try. Comparing that to sifting through pages and pages of vaguely relevant images it's a clear win and a lot cheaper