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Since when accessible tools are prerequisite for quality? Everybody can buy a pen or brushes. As an artist, designer and developer, I am more aware of generati

by nbzso 3y ago

Since when accessible tools are prerequisite for quality? Everybody can buy a pen or brushes. As an artist, designer and developer, I am more aware of generative AI than the average "prompter" who the startups are using for fine-tuning of the models and pays a hefty price for the "privilege". A good illustrator with AI and knowledge of composition, color, anatomy and real drawing skills will kick the B out of "everyone" who is prompting aspect ratios and the names of artists which work is represented/stolen in the data set. The big names in the business will jump to this "novelty" out of hype and cost optimization, only to realize that the results are limited by the dataset and the shiny average of styles actually cannot give serious brand differentiation. But hey, keep prompting, sorry, creating. You are not a part of the biggest Dunning-Kruger experiment to date. You are an artist, designer, composer, programmer and business owner. Good Luck.:)

bossyTeacher 3y ago
I hope so because we as a society are nowhere ready for a fully capable AI
bossyTeacher 3y ago
imo what is likely to happen in the short-term is that the bottom-end of the people in that field will see their salaries significantly reduced as the GenAI can do most of it at a much cheaper price. Doesn't even have to be as good, especially when it doesn't need to sleep, have breaks or raises to perform to the same or better standard. Some will accept the lower salary and suffer in silence, others will leave the field only to see many other fields experiencing the same phenomenon and thus still ending up in a low paid role somewhere anyway, while others will skill up to basically get away from the rising tide, this will increase the supply of skilled workers and bring salaries down for them all as a result of this and the fact that GenAI has already eaten a chunk of their work. Summary: everyone apart from the 1 %ers gets lower salaries
echelon 3y ago
This is, in my humble opinion, a view based in fear, jealousy, and/or gatekeeping. Gating on accessibility ignores so many rough edges people experience. Opportunity cost, activation energy, learning gradients, community. We should want for people to encounter fewer stumbling blocks. Life is already complicated enough. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to spend 10,000 hours to manipulate a graphite tip on paper. Everyone has a human experience. Everyone lives a life of joy and pain. Everyone daydreams. And everyone can communicate feelings to others. Art is just one playful encoding of that. A specialized encoding with difficult runes that take time to learn. Asking someone to stick to pen and brushes is like trying to keep reading as a priestly Church ceremony. Making art should be as easy as playing a video game or telling a story to friends. It doesn't matter how you made it. It only matters how it made someone feel. More than anything, I think the artist will be the biggest beneficiary of these tools. They'll be able to do more with a smaller budget and fewer people. They'll be able to learn and experiment faster, and take their work down entirely new paths that were previously blocked. Webcomic and fanfiction authors will be film directors. Just give it time.
- nbzso 3y ago
  Comparing Formula One pilot to passenger in an automated car which is driving on a F1 track? Working on your craft and learning with practice is "a luxury"? Seriously? Art is encoding? People, start reading books. Your mind is trapped in a predictive and programmed pattern of consumerism and wishful thinking. When your tool is painting/composing/writing instead of you, you are part of the process, not master of the process. But go ahead, sleep into AI induced coma. It will be fun. For sure.:) Soon you will be into this possible UX: Your dream will be recorded and shared with the corporate AI. Because art is personal expression of emotion and meaning, and you are the ultimate AI artist, it is logical that you want a validation of your own beliefs more than watching others experiences. So you will put your VR headset to think about entertainment and on the fly the corporate AI will generate a compelling story with music and visuals of your taste and liking. After all, everything is encoding. And people before you produced every possible scenario. LLMs hallucinate, which is artistic creativity after all. Right? Another AI will charge your Social Rating a "small" amount of "carbon credits" to motivate you more and give you participations points for watching advertisements and propaganda. You think this is a joke? Think again. The tech is here, the users are ready for this ultimate experience. The VS's are willing to invest. Sure, in the beginning, some will share their dreams just to have a social validation dopamine rush. But with time, the AI audience will be more user-friendly and will consider your deepest fears of rejection and complexity of your digital self. So you will have it all. Without any pressure, work or 10 000 hours of pushing your self towards a goal. Just consume your dreams synthesized through the network and call it a day.
- bossyTeacher 3y ago
  Think about it in this way. Would be happy to take a 40% hit on your salary forever if it meant that your career was more accessible to everyone? Would you be happy to live in a Tokyo style tiny flat if it meant that homelessness in your city was resolved?

by nbzso 3y ago

bossyTeacher 3y ago

I hope so because we as a society are nowhere ready for a fully capable AI

bossyTeacher 3y ago

imo what is likely to happen in the short-term is that the bottom-end of the people in that field will see their salaries significantly reduced as the GenAI can do most of it at a much cheaper price. Doesn't even have to be as good, especially when it doesn't need to sleep, have breaks or raises to perform to the same or better standard. Some will accept the lower salary and suffer in silence, others will leave the field only to see many other fields experiencing the same phenomenon and thus still ending up in a low paid role somewhere anyway, while others will skill up to basically get away from the rising tide, this will increase the supply of skilled workers and bring salaries down for them all as a result of this and the fact that GenAI has already eaten a chunk of their work. Summary: everyone apart from the 1 %ers gets lower salaries

echelon 3y ago

This is, in my humble opinion, a view based in fear, jealousy, and/or gatekeeping. Gating on accessibility ignores so many rough edges people experience. Opportunity cost, activation energy, learning gradients, community. We should want for people to encounter fewer stumbling blocks. Life is already complicated enough. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to spend 10,000 hours to manipulate a graphite tip on paper. Everyone has a human experience. Everyone lives a life of joy and pain. Everyone daydreams. And everyone can communicate feelings to others. Art is just one playful encoding of that. A specialized encoding with difficult runes that take time to learn. Asking someone to stick to pen and brushes is like trying to keep reading as a priestly Church ceremony. Making art should be as easy as playing a video game or telling a story to friends. It doesn't matter how you made it. It only matters how it made someone feel. More than anything, I think the artist will be the biggest beneficiary of these tools. They'll be able to do more with a smaller budget and fewer people. They'll be able to learn and experiment faster, and take their work down entirely new paths that were previously blocked. Webcomic and fanfiction authors will be film directors. Just give it time.

nbzso 3y ago
Comparing Formula One pilot to passenger in an automated car which is driving on a F1 track? Working on your craft and learning with practice is "a luxury"? Seriously? Art is encoding? People, start reading books. Your mind is trapped in a predictive and programmed pattern of consumerism and wishful thinking. When your tool is painting/composing/writing instead of you, you are part of the process, not master of the process. But go ahead, sleep into AI induced coma. It will be fun. For sure.:) Soon you will be into this possible UX: Your dream will be recorded and shared with the corporate AI. Because art is personal expression of emotion and meaning, and you are the ultimate AI artist, it is logical that you want a validation of your own beliefs more than watching others experiences. So you will put your VR headset to think about entertainment and on the fly the corporate AI will generate a compelling story with music and visuals of your taste and liking. After all, everything is encoding. And people before you produced every possible scenario. LLMs hallucinate, which is artistic creativity after all. Right? Another AI will charge your Social Rating a "small" amount of "carbon credits" to motivate you more and give you participations points for watching advertisements and propaganda. You think this is a joke? Think again. The tech is here, the users are ready for this ultimate experience. The VS's are willing to invest. Sure, in the beginning, some will share their dreams just to have a social validation dopamine rush. But with time, the AI audience will be more user-friendly and will consider your deepest fears of rejection and complexity of your digital self. So you will have it all. Without any pressure, work or 10 000 hours of pushing your self towards a goal. Just consume your dreams synthesized through the network and call it a day.
bossyTeacher 3y ago
Think about it in this way. Would be happy to take a 40% hit on your salary forever if it meant that your career was more accessible to everyone? Would you be happy to live in a Tokyo style tiny flat if it meant that homelessness in your city was resolved?