[xg15]

> It's like the model gets you the first 90%, and then you need a trained painter to get the second 90%.

Call me a doomer, but I think this makes the possible consequences even worse.

Remember the 80/20 rule.

A lot of modern product innovation is not really about improving quality - rather, its about introducing lower-quality versions of existing products which are significantly cheaper than the original but still "good enough".

Dalle2 and friends could fall into the same bucket. If they produce artwork that is objectively worse than a human-painted version would be, but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists from those usecases - along with an overall drop in quality of artworks.

[saurik]

Ugh... I somehow hadn't yet even considered the part where we all have to tolerate almost every single image we see during the day being generated by some creepy AI model; but OF COURSE that's how this is going to play out :( :(. I mean, mant of the products I purchase on Amazon don't even spell check their product marketing images as it stands...

[Barrin92]

>but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists

you're not afraid of DALL-E, you're afraid of an army of fiverr workers stealing your job. Stock photos and low quality art have already been commodified. Very few people go and commission bespoke stock art from the individual working artist, they get a subscription from one of the gazillion content stock photo factories for a few cents.

[notahacker]

> If they produce artwork that is objectively worse than a human-painted version would be, but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists from those usecases - along with an overall drop in quality of artworks.

If people are happy with "good enough" they generally don't hire a digital artist in the first place (the whole reason DALL-E can exist is because there's a lot of digital imagery on relevant subjects/objects available to it to train, and there's even more an internet search away) or if they do, they get one off Fiverr.

For mocking up quick concepts, that might be different, but that's a workflow improvement.