| > I don't think there's been any industry that's been ended by AI yet, and yet people are strangely confident that art is going to be the first. Technology is making something that used to take a lot of practice and skill be accesible to those without any of it. A monkey can now draw two ovals, label it an owl, and run an image-to-image conversion with Stable Diffusion to get a pretty good sketch of an owl [1]. Is it better than what a good artist could do? Irrelevant. Is it better than what a cheap illustrator I find on Fiverr could do? Irrelevant. The only important point is that I no longer need an illustrator to get myself an owl. I draw some lines, I pick some words, and presto I have an illustration. The question of whether it's "art" is entirely irrelevant. > Are you under the impression that right now, as of today, the publicly-available AI models are ready to replace humans for all types of art outside of scientific and technical illustration?
Because that's not true at all. The AI can't even draw hands yet. To say nothing of its ability to handle multiple people and objects interacting in complex scenes. I think this is severely underplaying the speed at which things are changing and basing an argument about things that the AI currently can't do. DALL-E was anounce in Jan 2021 and it's still locked behind API access. Stable Diffusion came out Aug 2022 and I can run it on <$2,000 laptop. That's not 2 years. Do you think hands are going to be a long term roadblock? As for complex scenes, you can currently string that together with a Stable Diffusion plugin for photoshop/gimp. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wwv7zk/sta... |
Now, this may actually be helpful in that it gets around copyright claims - but that's the only real difference.