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Video game and movie illustrators are completely fucked which is sad. Very interested to see how this plays out in the comic/graphic novel space. I could theore

by rcarr 4y ago

Video game and movie illustrators are completely fucked which is sad. Very interested to see how this plays out in the comic/graphic novel space. I could theoretically see the big hitters getting behind human artists for the marketing points, but if some new or smaller comic book studio starts churning out AI content and it takes off they might be forced to follow suit. I think a lot of this might depend on how comic book stores themselves operate e.g if they also get behind the artists and refuse to stock AI generated works. But I don't know how many people are buying comic books from stores vs online, as a relatively outside observer it seems to be one of the only types of retail businesses that seem to have stood up pretty well against the online onslaught, probably because of how much they operate as a community hub. Other prediction: Theoretically anyone with a semi-interesting TTRPG campaign could just feed in their weekly adventure into the program and have a comic book generated from the results. We could end up with a Soundcloud style situation but instead of songs there's 100,000 new comic books being generated a day. From there, it's not a stretch to say the same is going to happen to movies, because once you've got the comics (which are essentially storyboards) and the technology gets perfected for video, it's probably not a lot of effort to feed the comics into the AI and have it generate the movie. Will be interesting to see how the quality vs quantity dynamic plays out. Either we'll start consuming more content from local creatives and indie studios or there will be so much dross to sift through we'll happily pay globo corps more money for the highest quality stuff. It'll probably be somewhere in the middle. At the minute, I'm about 8 episodes into Critical Role's 2nd Campaign and questioning why I even still have Netflix when I can access entertainment like this for free on Youtube.

Clubber 4y ago
I think all of this will probably be true. I also think that AI generated art is novel at the moment. Eventually it will get boring because it's essentially just retreads of what it already knows. Since it's now doing all the "creating," based on what it knows, really new and interesting creations it can create will become rarer and rarer. Companies will of course milk it as long as they can, but eventually, the world will hunger for something new that AI can't provide, because it hasn't been trained. I give it 5-20 years before it becomes boring and predictable, like most corporate art already is.
stuckinhell 4y ago
The future is personalized content, not consuming from "thought leaders" or creatives. It's not like comic sales in america were doing great either. I know many people think art is some connection between the creator and viewer, but for the vast majority of people its really not. It's a way to kill time or boredom. There is a reason the same stories with slight twists are the only the ones that sell over and over.
kmeisthax 4y ago
You're correct on both counts. Independent and self-published artists will be more powerful, but the usual 'idea guy' hustle bro types are already abusing AI art generators to mass-manufacture nominally "unique" art to spam on various marketplaces. Artists that are trying to actually build one good, high-quality work have to compete with thousands of very well polished turds.

by rcarr 4y ago

Clubber 4y ago

I think all of this will probably be true. I also think that AI generated art is novel at the moment. Eventually it will get boring because it's essentially just retreads of what it already knows. Since it's now doing all the "creating," based on what it knows, really new and interesting creations it can create will become rarer and rarer. Companies will of course milk it as long as they can, but eventually, the world will hunger for something new that AI can't provide, because it hasn't been trained. I give it 5-20 years before it becomes boring and predictable, like most corporate art already is.

stuckinhell 4y ago

The future is personalized content, not consuming from "thought leaders" or creatives. It's not like comic sales in america were doing great either. I know many people think art is some connection between the creator and viewer, but for the vast majority of people its really not. It's a way to kill time or boredom. There is a reason the same stories with slight twists are the only the ones that sell over and over.

kmeisthax 4y ago

You're correct on both counts. Independent and self-published artists will be more powerful, but the usual 'idea guy' hustle bro types are already abusing AI art generators to mass-manufacture nominally "unique" art to spam on various marketplaces. Artists that are trying to actually build one good, high-quality work have to compete with thousands of very well polished turds.