Everyone who worked on this is a traitor to the human race. Why do we need to make it impossible to make a living as an artist? Who thinks an endless tsunami of garbage “content” churned out by machines dropping the bottom out of all artistic disciplines is a good idea?

▲ t-writescode an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I want to piggyback off what you’ve said, but for *additional* problems with this:

To me, this is terrifying. Major use-cases presented on this page:

  * photo editing / post-processing
  * branding
  * infographics

Photo editing and post-processing seems like the “least harmful” version of this. Doing moderate color-space tweaks or image extensions based on the images themselves seems like a “relatively not-evil” activity and will likely make a lot of artwork a bit nicer. The same technology will probably also be able to be used to upscale photos taken on Pixel cameras, which might be nice. MOSTLY. It’ll also call into question any super-duper-upscaled visuals when used as evidence for court and the “accuracy of photos as facts” - see the fake stuff Samsung did with the moon; but far, far more ubiquitous.

However, Branding and Infographics are where I have concerns.

Branding - it’s AI art, so it can’t be copyrighted, or are we just going to forget that?

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Infographics, though. We know that AI frequently hallucinates - and even hallucinates citations themselves, so … how can we generated infographics if they’re magicking into existence the stats used in the infographics themselves?!

▲ cheema33 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Everyone who worked on this is a traitor to the human race.

Have we felt this way for all other large scale advances in human history?

	▲	rester324 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's a question too generic. But yes, I guess? And people get Nobel prizes to point out that said advances have been causing the downfall of empires and nations.

▲ apt-apt-apt-apt 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On the flip side, it can be good for the environment. Instead of spending tons of resources burning a car or doing a bunch of setup to get a shot, we can prompt it using relatively fewer energy resources.

▲ AstroBen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To try to put a positive spin on it..

It enables smaller teams to put out better quality products

Imagine you're an artist that wants to create a video game but you suck at development. You could leverage AI to get good enough code and have amazing art

On the other side someone who invested their entire skill tree in development can have amazing code and passable art

The more I think about it the more it seems this AI revolution will hurt big companies the most. Most people have no hope of competing with a AAA game studio because they don't have the capital. Maybe this levels the playing field?

	▲	egypturnash 19 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I am an artist. I have friends who like to code. I could leverage talking to my friends and saying "hey anyone wanna fool around and make some games". I could get Unreal and one of the 800 game templates available on their store for prices ranging from $0 to a few hundred bucks and start plopping my art in there and fiddling around. There's a bazillion art assets on there for the programmer with no art skills, too. And there's a section on the Unreal forums for people to say "hey I have this set of skills, who wants to make a game with me?". Or we could all just generate a bunch of completely unmaintanable code or some uncopyrightable art, sounds great.
	▲	t-writescode 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Undertale Exists. Baba is You Exists. Nethack Exists (and similar games). Dwarf Fortress Exists. Mountains of Indie Horror games made of Unity Store assets exist. Coal, LLC exists. Cookie Clicker Exists. Balatro Exists.

▲ deviation 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Capitalism, at work. Wherever there is a cost, there will be attempts made at cost efficiency. Google understands that hiring designers or artists is expensive, and they want to offer a cheaper, more effective alternative so that they can capture the market.

In a coffee shop this morning I saw a lady drawing tulips with a paper and pencil. It was beautiful, and I let her know... But as I walked away I felt sad that I don't feel that when browsing online anymore- because I remember how impressive it used to feel to see an epic render, or an oil painting, etc... I've been turned cynical.

▲ asadm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

upskill or gtfo.

▲ user34283 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do. Free art for everyone, and it's great.