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How do you think artists “higher up the food chain” got there? Inevitably they started on the lower rungs and worked their way up. If these tools displace the

How do you think artists “higher up the food chain” got there? Inevitably they started on the lower rungs and worked their way up. If these tools displace the need for lower level/apprenticeship like work, then it won’t be a surprise if later on we have less quality artists who weren’t able to get the necessary experience early on.

ForHackernews 4y ago
oh no, all those blue collar arts jobs are going to be lost! They'll have to retrain as classical guitarists.
wpietri 4y ago
Do you have some evidence of this being how we are currently getting quality artists? Talking with one digital artist, my impression was that stock art plus the ever-declining ad CPM rate eliminated most of the lower-level work years ago.
- andreilys 4y ago
  I don’t see why AI generation would be restricted to stock art. There are plenty of very impressive results already that will displace artists further down the chain. I think of it more like, If an artist can support themselves doing commissions of low quality art so they can support their high quality art, that’s better than if they had to drive Uber. https://mobile.twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463219712 https://mobile.twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463...
  - simiones 4y ago
    The tweet you shared looks like low-effort stock art with a "deep" idea that I have already seen thousands of renditions of. It looks quite similar to a PowerPoint of 36 images picked from stock sites with (slightly fancier) fade transitions between them, and a background soundtrack.
- soared 4y ago
  There are still plenty of entry and lower/mid level graphic artists working at creative agencies, ad agencies, etc. it’s possible some may be replaced but their skills would still likely be needed if AI is doing most of the work for edits, adjustments, exporting out of .PSD, etc
Hamcha 4y ago
I am by all means not a big client of artists but I commission custom character art all the time and what makes me commission (especially smaller) artists is their signature style. I have never seen an artist grow from doing boring stock art, quite the opposite in fact.
ridgered4 4y ago
Reminds me of COBOL programmer demand. There seems to be plenty of well paid work to do here, but what is left unsaid is no one is hiring junior COBALT programmers and training them up. The work is all of people with 30 years of experience so even if new developers want to enter the field there's nothing for them to do so they'll just end up exiting it for something else. So it seems like the field will have to die with the old programmers, no matter how much you pay them they'll eventually be gone if you don't create new ones.

ForHackernews 4y ago

oh no, all those blue collar arts jobs are going to be lost! They'll have to retrain as classical guitarists.

wpietri 4y ago

Do you have some evidence of this being how we are currently getting quality artists? Talking with one digital artist, my impression was that stock art plus the ever-declining ad CPM rate eliminated most of the lower-level work years ago.

andreilys 4y ago
I don’t see why AI generation would be restricted to stock art. There are plenty of very impressive results already that will displace artists further down the chain. I think of it more like, If an artist can support themselves doing commissions of low quality art so they can support their high quality art, that’s better than if they had to drive Uber. https://mobile.twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463219712 https://mobile.twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1558508866463...
- simiones 4y ago
  The tweet you shared looks like low-effort stock art with a "deep" idea that I have already seen thousands of renditions of. It looks quite similar to a PowerPoint of 36 images picked from stock sites with (slightly fancier) fade transitions between them, and a background soundtrack.
soared 4y ago
There are still plenty of entry and lower/mid level graphic artists working at creative agencies, ad agencies, etc. it’s possible some may be replaced but their skills would still likely be needed if AI is doing most of the work for edits, adjustments, exporting out of .PSD, etc

Hamcha 4y ago

I am by all means not a big client of artists but I commission custom character art all the time and what makes me commission (especially smaller) artists is their signature style. I have never seen an artist grow from doing boring stock art, quite the opposite in fact.

ridgered4 4y ago

Reminds me of COBOL programmer demand. There seems to be plenty of well paid work to do here, but what is left unsaid is no one is hiring junior COBALT programmers and training them up. The work is all of people with 30 years of experience so even if new developers want to enter the field there's nothing for them to do so they'll just end up exiting it for something else. So it seems like the field will have to die with the old programmers, no matter how much you pay them they'll eventually be gone if you don't create new ones.