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Jesus. Well thanks for your contribution to putting the entire creative industry out of work, I guess, little anime girl icon person. Ugh.

ccity88 4y ago
How very pessimistic. We should never shirk technological progress for fear of upsetting the status quo or established agenda. All of this is only a matter of time away from emerging. Have fun being on the forgotten side of history
axg11 4y ago
A new technology is developed with the potential to make you 100x more efficient at your job. Today, a creative artist can only contribute to a project through a narrow slice. Tomorrow, the same creative artist can single-handedly orchestrate an entire project.
- astrange 4y ago
  It's more like there were tasks that were previously so unproductive they couldn't be done at all, and now they're productive enough you might be able to be employed doing them. Automation creates jobs rather than destroying them. What destroys jobs is mainly bad macroeconomic conditions.
uni_rule 4y ago
This is a force multiplayer. It doesn't take the place of artistic intent, dingus. Besides you can't accomplish much with just "a model". This is an asset generator, hardly a threat to anyone especially when these things will likely need some weight painting to touch up anyway.
- mrtranscendence 4y ago
  I don’t think the commenter is upset that this particular model will be deployed, putting creative professionals out of work. It’s clearly a janky proof of concept. I think they’re upset about what follow on work could eventually mean.
cercatrova 4y ago
Another day, another AI media generation project, and yet another comment by egypturnash lamenting the "death of the creative industry."
- egypturnash 4y ago
  representative of the industry currently under threat of disruption is not happy about this and continues to be vocal about her unhappiness, film at 11
  - Gabriel_Martin 4y ago
    A representative of the luddite contingent perhaps.
    - tutivillusrex 4y ago
tluyben2 4y ago
I have a friend who is an old school professional artist from before affordable computing who has been using AI (and computers before that) to aid him with creations for many years now and runs everything himself on his own machines (which is a pretty expensive setup) experimenting and training and he loves every iteration. But I guess what creative industry means to you? Pumping out web UIs or 3d gaming models were never, for the most part, the creative industry; learning to see what people like and copying that for different situations is not necessarily creative and thus what AI easily does; anything that doesn’t come with a lot of learning and practice and talent outside manual work will be replaced by AI soon; the other stuff will take somewhat longer. If you think this can replace you, you weren’t/aren’t in the creative industry. Same goes for coders afraid of no code.
- egypturnash 4y ago
  So how many shitty "not creative industry" jobs did your friend take on the way to where he could have "a pretty expensive setup" to do this? What did he crank out solely to earn a paycheck with his art skills?
  - tluyben2 4y ago
    Your tone is not great, but he never had those jobs; he was born in a poor family (for NL), but his talent was recognised by HR Giger when he sent him a paintbrushed work (via dhl with a frame and all on a whim) and that was enough. He is not rich but makes a nice living. Note that this is the EU; there is not much of a risk of dying under a bridge even if you don’t succeed. But he did as far as he is concerned. He never compromised anything like you imply he must have done. Edit; but you are also implying you think your job is gone with stuff like this? What do you do? Also I am hoping I will be replaced: I have been thinking I will be replaced since the early 80s as my work as a programmer is not so exciting (I love it and will keep doing it even if it’s not viable anymore, which I do believe for the 20% of people who do niche work is very far off AI wise; like I think with creative as well) but it seems closer now than ever. Edit2: looking at your profile work, you don’t seem you will be replaced by anything soon; what is the anger about? Do you have public blogs/tweets about your feelings about this; looking at your work (in your HN profile) you seem the group not touched by this at all.
yieldcrv 4y ago
tent cities by the beach can use the showers

ccity88 4y ago

How very pessimistic. We should never shirk technological progress for fear of upsetting the status quo or established agenda. All of this is only a matter of time away from emerging. Have fun being on the forgotten side of history

axg11 4y ago

A new technology is developed with the potential to make you 100x more efficient at your job. Today, a creative artist can only contribute to a project through a narrow slice. Tomorrow, the same creative artist can single-handedly orchestrate an entire project.

astrange 4y ago
It's more like there were tasks that were previously so unproductive they couldn't be done at all, and now they're productive enough you might be able to be employed doing them. Automation creates jobs rather than destroying them. What destroys jobs is mainly bad macroeconomic conditions.

uni_rule 4y ago

This is a force multiplayer. It doesn't take the place of artistic intent, dingus. Besides you can't accomplish much with just "a model". This is an asset generator, hardly a threat to anyone especially when these things will likely need some weight painting to touch up anyway.

mrtranscendence 4y ago
I don’t think the commenter is upset that this particular model will be deployed, putting creative professionals out of work. It’s clearly a janky proof of concept. I think they’re upset about what follow on work could eventually mean.

cercatrova 4y ago

Another day, another AI media generation project, and yet another comment by egypturnash lamenting the "death of the creative industry."

egypturnash 4y ago
representative of the industry currently under threat of disruption is not happy about this and continues to be vocal about her unhappiness, film at 11
- Gabriel_Martin 4y ago
  A representative of the luddite contingent perhaps.
  - tutivillusrex 4y ago

tluyben2 4y ago

I have a friend who is an old school professional artist from before affordable computing who has been using AI (and computers before that) to aid him with creations for many years now and runs everything himself on his own machines (which is a pretty expensive setup) experimenting and training and he loves every iteration. But I guess what creative industry means to you? Pumping out web UIs or 3d gaming models were never, for the most part, the creative industry; learning to see what people like and copying that for different situations is not necessarily creative and thus what AI easily does; anything that doesn’t come with a lot of learning and practice and talent outside manual work will be replaced by AI soon; the other stuff will take somewhat longer. If you think this can replace you, you weren’t/aren’t in the creative industry. Same goes for coders afraid of no code.

egypturnash 4y ago
So how many shitty "not creative industry" jobs did your friend take on the way to where he could have "a pretty expensive setup" to do this? What did he crank out solely to earn a paycheck with his art skills?
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Your tone is not great, but he never had those jobs; he was born in a poor family (for NL), but his talent was recognised by HR Giger when he sent him a paintbrushed work (via dhl with a frame and all on a whim) and that was enough. He is not rich but makes a nice living. Note that this is the EU; there is not much of a risk of dying under a bridge even if you don’t succeed. But he did as far as he is concerned. He never compromised anything like you imply he must have done. Edit; but you are also implying you think your job is gone with stuff like this? What do you do? Also I am hoping I will be replaced: I have been thinking I will be replaced since the early 80s as my work as a programmer is not so exciting (I love it and will keep doing it even if it’s not viable anymore, which I do believe for the 20% of people who do niche work is very far off AI wise; like I think with creative as well) but it seems closer now than ever. Edit2: looking at your profile work, you don’t seem you will be replaced by anything soon; what is the anger about? Do you have public blogs/tweets about your feelings about this; looking at your work (in your HN profile) you seem the group not touched by this at all.

yieldcrv 4y ago

tent cities by the beach can use the showers