[glimshe]

All of my friends working in professional photography and publishing are heavily using AI, both the features integrated by Adobe into Photoshop and Midjourney. They use computers in their work, but they are not programmers - they are what you would describe as standard creatives.

[paretoer]

All the actual creative people I know don't care what other people are doing. What other people are doing is usually a sign of what not to do if you want to be creative.

"Creatives" so strongly against AI art I suspect are not creative at all. They are the same class of people who are so uncreative that the entire internet looks almost exactly the same, even though you could basically do anything.

We don't call the person on the Ikea furniture assembly line "creative".

With that said, I am bored to tears with the output of generative AI art on its own. It is like taking a 4 bar beat sample generator for music and looping the output 100 times creates a pretty boring song. Someone actual creative though can see that the beat sample generator can be used for the base material for something interesting musically.

Of course the creative fraud is going to be afraid of something new and happy if things stay uncreative and the same.

[Hoasi]

> All the actual creative people I know don't care what other people are doing. What other people are doing is usually a sign of what not to do if you want to be creative.

100%

[vouaobrasil]

I am a pro photographer and know many who don't use it.

[glimshe]

One of them showed a situation where the client wanted a complex object removed from the background. I've done some Photoshop in the past and understood why that would have taken hours. He then demoed an AI feature that did the job in a few clicks. The client was happy and he moved on to another task... Hard to argue against that.

[vouaobrasil]

> Hard to argue against that.

Not really. Sociologically, I think it's a bad thing to want so desperately to remove stuff. That desperation was already borne from previous technologies, so it's just technology making things worse by apparently solving a previous problem that was already created by technology that ushered in a spirit paving the way for AI.