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I've already seen several videos talking about how you can use DALL-E or Midjourney to generate really samey-looking AI art and sell posters of it. This kills t

I've already seen several videos talking about how you can use DALL-E or Midjourney to generate really samey-looking AI art and sell posters of it. This kills the whole art market by burying it under spam. Doesn't matter if you're drawing everything traditionally, using digital tools, or spending hours in front of Stable Diffusion to get it to spit out the image exactly the way you want. Your work will be buried under millions of hustlebros' spam images.

williamcotton 4y ago
My wife and I buy paintings. We either buy them from the artist or from galleries what we like. I don't really see how hustlebro spam images have any effect. I can see how CafePress type websites might be affected but at least for my taste I'm not worried!
- bobthepanda 4y ago
  For people who already have stable incomes from art through these channels, they're probably fine. For artists who need to get started, now they have a much harder time getting to that stable income channel.
  - CamperBob2 4y ago
    Art, like technology, is not a great business to go into if you expect things to remain as they are.
    - bawolff 4y ago
      Its also a bad business to go in if you expect to make buck without being highly skilled. Obvious artists are more extreme, but try getting a job as an aspiring programmer with no degree or experience who is just starting to learn to program. I imagine it would be about as bleak as being an aspiring artist.
  - bawolff 4y ago
    I don't think the world owes aspiring artists a living. Yeah, life sucks, i wish we all lived in a star trek world without money, but in the mean time here we are.
    - bobthepanda 4y ago
      I mean, it’s an eventual problem if an entire generation of aspiring artists disappear, because that’s where innovation and the cream of the crop come from. Like, now, we have a hard time doing architectural restoration because going all-in on modernism destroyed the pipeline and ecosystem for artisans like stonemasons.
- cma 4y ago
  People are likely to already be projecring AI art onto canvas and hand painting over it.
jimt1234 4y ago
I recently watched a short video interview with an old music exec that claimed music production is dead. Now that virtually all music production is digital, and has been reduced to algorithms, new music will be created with near-zero time and effort. Bots will be able to crank out hundreds of songs per minute for any genre, then upload them to streaming platforms, flooding them and making it impossible for a human musician to compete. He went on to talk about all it takes now is for public acceptance to catch up to the technology. He talked about how audiences used to demand real, live performances, not lip-syncing or playback tracks. Not anymore. Then people wanted actually singers, not Autotuned singing. Also, not anymore. He had a few more examples, but the point is that it's not a huge leap for the public to accept bot-generated songs; it's already accepted that nearly all popular music is digitally manipulated. It's only a matter of time before the public collectively says, "Why should I care if it's a computer or a human making the song? I just like it."
- nerdix 4y ago
  Will the AI generated music be lip singed by humans like Milli Vanilli? Because a big part of the appeal of music is the image and persona of the artist. So I don’t see pure AI music taking off until the entire artist can be generated. That means an AI generated human likeness with a personality that can be featured in AI generated music videos. Either that or the metaverse takes off and avatars are normalized then I guess the artist could just be a computer generated avatar.
  - JumpCrisscross 4y ago
    Sound (versus performance) being a musician’s principal economy is a modern phenomenon. Born with the phonograph, killed by streaming.
  - rudyfink 4y ago
    Or the performer is whomever you'd like it to be but some performers cost more than others based on rights? So if you'd like, you can be Rick-rolled by an AI generated dancing penguin in the style of Picasso with anime overtones for one price, but the original or AI up-scales thereof will cost you more (though, obviously, your willingness to accept AI-added background product placement built into the video will effect the cost).

williamcotton 4y ago

My wife and I buy paintings. We either buy them from the artist or from galleries what we like. I don't really see how hustlebro spam images have any effect. I can see how CafePress type websites might be affected but at least for my taste I'm not worried!

bobthepanda 4y ago
For people who already have stable incomes from art through these channels, they're probably fine. For artists who need to get started, now they have a much harder time getting to that stable income channel.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
  Art, like technology, is not a great business to go into if you expect things to remain as they are.
  - bawolff 4y ago
    Its also a bad business to go in if you expect to make buck without being highly skilled. Obvious artists are more extreme, but try getting a job as an aspiring programmer with no degree or experience who is just starting to learn to program. I imagine it would be about as bleak as being an aspiring artist.
- bawolff 4y ago
  I don't think the world owes aspiring artists a living. Yeah, life sucks, i wish we all lived in a star trek world without money, but in the mean time here we are.
  - bobthepanda 4y ago
    I mean, it’s an eventual problem if an entire generation of aspiring artists disappear, because that’s where innovation and the cream of the crop come from. Like, now, we have a hard time doing architectural restoration because going all-in on modernism destroyed the pipeline and ecosystem for artisans like stonemasons.
cma 4y ago
People are likely to already be projecring AI art onto canvas and hand painting over it.

jimt1234 4y ago

I recently watched a short video interview with an old music exec that claimed music production is dead. Now that virtually all music production is digital, and has been reduced to algorithms, new music will be created with near-zero time and effort. Bots will be able to crank out hundreds of songs per minute for any genre, then upload them to streaming platforms, flooding them and making it impossible for a human musician to compete. He went on to talk about all it takes now is for public acceptance to catch up to the technology. He talked about how audiences used to demand real, live performances, not lip-syncing or playback tracks. Not anymore. Then people wanted actually singers, not Autotuned singing. Also, not anymore. He had a few more examples, but the point is that it's not a huge leap for the public to accept bot-generated songs; it's already accepted that nearly all popular music is digitally manipulated. It's only a matter of time before the public collectively says, "Why should I care if it's a computer or a human making the song? I just like it."

nerdix 4y ago
Will the AI generated music be lip singed by humans like Milli Vanilli? Because a big part of the appeal of music is the image and persona of the artist. So I don’t see pure AI music taking off until the entire artist can be generated. That means an AI generated human likeness with a personality that can be featured in AI generated music videos. Either that or the metaverse takes off and avatars are normalized then I guess the artist could just be a computer generated avatar.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago
  Sound (versus performance) being a musician’s principal economy is a modern phenomenon. Born with the phonograph, killed by streaming.
- rudyfink 4y ago
  Or the performer is whomever you'd like it to be but some performers cost more than others based on rights? So if you'd like, you can be Rick-rolled by an AI generated dancing penguin in the style of Picasso with anime overtones for one price, but the original or AI up-scales thereof will cost you more (though, obviously, your willingness to accept AI-added background product placement built into the video will effect the cost).