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Yep. I spent a good hour trying to generate some stuff with DALLE. I then asked a friend that works in media and he was able to give me ideas for a prompt tha

by robswc 4y ago

Yep. I spent a good hour trying to generate some stuff with DALLE. I then asked a friend that works in media and he was able to give me ideas for a prompt that worked almost immediately. AI art is fun and _sometimes_ it can replace some things but at the end of the day, I don't really want to mess around prompting over and over. If I pay an artist $100 for something, I couldn't care less how they make it. I feel like AI can be another tool. I'll even make a bold prediction. In 10 years, we will still have "Graphic designers" and "digital artists" the ceiling will just be raised similar to how it was when photoshop became more commonplace.

hackernewds 4y ago
sure. but you need 1 prompt engineer producing work equivalent to 100s of artists*artist_hours not to mention, prompt engineering doesn't seem like a particularly technical job either
- robswc 4y ago
  That is true. I mean, I'm sure this will negatively effect quite a few people... I just don't see it replacing the majority of artists anytime soon.
frozenwind 4y ago
But that skill you're describing here is equally trainable and it probably will be in the near future, such that a specialized Artist AI will immediately guess what you're after, and if not, present you several iterations. That Artist AI, in turn, will become a subset of a Market AI which will have access to a lot of data about what makes people tick, testing and deploying market strategies accordingly. That Market AI, in turn, will be a subset of... you know where I'm going. All of this felt like Sci-Fi a while ago, but now you can almost taste it. Nothing in the information space will be left untouched by the ML/AI revolution. I was a bit skeptical last years, but seeing this space evolve in the last 2-3 years left no question about it. The only thing stopping this a Butlerian Jihad, probably. Actually, it probably can't be stopped. Humanity as a whole seriously needs to start considering alternate incomes and ways to support people existing. We need to shift our perspective from the human individual as a value-producing asset to a right-to-exist-and-experiment-reality entity. All of this is really awesome, but for me it's like admiring the exquisite beauty and calm of the blue sky in the center of a hurricane. I'm still trying to adjust: am I too fatalistic or people are clearly ignoring of the tectonic shift that's happening?

by robswc 4y ago

hackernewds 4y ago

sure. but you need 1 prompt engineer producing work equivalent to 100s of artists*artist_hours not to mention, prompt engineering doesn't seem like a particularly technical job either

robswc 4y ago
That is true. I mean, I'm sure this will negatively effect quite a few people... I just don't see it replacing the majority of artists anytime soon.

frozenwind 4y ago

But that skill you're describing here is equally trainable and it probably will be in the near future, such that a specialized Artist AI will immediately guess what you're after, and if not, present you several iterations. That Artist AI, in turn, will become a subset of a Market AI which will have access to a lot of data about what makes people tick, testing and deploying market strategies accordingly. That Market AI, in turn, will be a subset of... you know where I'm going. All of this felt like Sci-Fi a while ago, but now you can almost taste it. Nothing in the information space will be left untouched by the ML/AI revolution. I was a bit skeptical last years, but seeing this space evolve in the last 2-3 years left no question about it. The only thing stopping this a Butlerian Jihad, probably. Actually, it probably can't be stopped. Humanity as a whole seriously needs to start considering alternate incomes and ways to support people existing. We need to shift our perspective from the human individual as a value-producing asset to a right-to-exist-and-experiment-reality entity. All of this is really awesome, but for me it's like admiring the exquisite beauty and calm of the blue sky in the center of a hurricane. I'm still trying to adjust: am I too fatalistic or people are clearly ignoring of the tectonic shift that's happening?