[0x457]

I feel like people talking about "Killed by AI" don't understand how Machine Learning works. There are a lot of fields that can be "killed" by current AIs if trained correctly - almost anything menial, repetitive and something that people could answer on their own, but "skill issue" prevented them from.

Art? Yes, you can get it to draw something in style of, but it won't be able to create new style.

StackOverflow? Well, what are you going to train it all? Current AI is good at answering questions that been already answered by SO.

Spotify's recommendations? Absolutely not. Probably the worst recommendations out of all streaming services. Sharing playlists EW not because of AI, but because of music accessibility at unprecedented levels. People don't even make playlists for themselves anymore, let alone share them. Sidenote: 4/5 of my Discover Weekly is insta-dislike because Spotify doesn't get _why_ I liked the song similar to it.

[steviescene]

Art? Yes, you can get it to draw something in style of, but it won't be able to create new style.

I don't think that's true. Because DALL-E knows how to create art in various styles, it implicitly knows what are the parameters which separate one style from another -- for example, thickness or shape of brush strokes, degree of realism vs. surrealism, typical subject matter, etc.. I imagine if you asked some variant of DALL-E to create a new style, it could arbitrarily alter the parameters that define "style" and come up with something new, and even alter them in a way such that the new style could reasonably be expected to be pleasing/well-received.

[0x457]

It knows how to create in styles it been trained on. Yeah, you can tune and tweak parameters, but it's not the same. I will for sure kill most of digital artists, though.

[baandang]

It is not true at all. I have already seen more new styles since summer from Stable Diffusion than in the last 20 years of going to art galleries.

Every artist has their influences. If they come up with something new it is from a unique combination of their influences. Stable Diffusion makes this literally trivial.

[throwaway1851]

A big difference is that a good artist does this in a meaningful way, creating novelty in a way that triggers a specific emotional impact or conveys a message. With generative AI, it’s all statistical sampling with any “meaning” inferred after the fact. But I do believe AI will be invaluable in helping artists explore idea space and refine their vision.

[0x457]

I think you just discovered that art galleries either show art by dead artists (can't be a new style) or zombie formalism. I haven't seen anything groundbreaking new by Stable Diffusion or DALL-E. Well, sometimes it produced funny images because it doesn't understand what it's actually "painting".

[EamonnMR]

So what's really going to be killed by AI is originality. The moat to cross to get to anything original will get wider as AI makes it easier to churn out rehash.

[rglover]

That, and civilizational progress.

The only real "threat" of AI is it lulling people into apathy and shutting their brains off. When the majority defer their thinking to AI because it's "good enough," civilizational progress will plateau. You can't invent the future using a machine that was only trained on the past (especially if you've atrophied your own ability to think about/interpret what the machine spits out).

[0x457]

I don't think it will get killed, but I think those models will eventually replace people that work on non-original stuff. Like, I don't doubt AI can "direct" the next 100 CoD games and no one will notice anything.

[EamonnMR]

Right but my worry is that it will become so cheap to produce 100CoD games/marvel movies/etc that it's going to crowd out anything else.