Is saving 500$ by generating some shitty AI art the bar? I thought this supposed to replace entire departments

Someone asked “where are all the small businesses”, this was a reply to that. Small businesses don’t have entire art departments.

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amrocha 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Gotcha, so the impact of AI is small businesses get to save a couple hundred dollars and the cost is only 2% of your countries GDP. That’s good.

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com2kid 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Prior to industrialization if you wanted to paint something you had to know how to mix your own paints.

And make your own brushes.

Before the printing presses came along, putting up flyers was not even imaginable.

Signs for businesses used to hand carved.

Then printed. A store sign was still produced by a team of professionals, but small businesses coils reasonably afford to print a sign. Not often updated, but it existed.

Then desktop publishing took off. Now lone graphic designers could design and send work off to a print shop. Small businesses could now afford regularly updated menus, signage, and even adverts and flyers.

Now small businesses can make their own creatives. AI can change stylesheets, write ad copy, and generate promotional photos.

Does any of this have the artistry of hand carved signs from 600 years ago? Of course not.

But the point is technology gives individuals control.

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habinero 6 hours ago | parent [-]

None of this is even slightly correct lol

People have been painting with red and yellow ochre and soot for at least 50K years for sure, and probably several hundred thousand years in truth. You don't need a brush, you have fingers or a twig.

The walls on the streets of Pompeii are full of advertising -- they had an election going on and people just scribbled slogans and such on walls. You don't need flyers lol.

The idea that signs or advertising was "artistry" is deeply ahistorical. The reason old stuff looks real fancy is because labor was extremely cheap and materials were expensive.

	▲	com2kid 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> People have been painting with red and yellow ochre and soot for at least 50K years for sure, Compare those to the pigments used (mixed up!) by professional painters, and then to what printers could make. If you wanted to paint fine art in the 1400s you were possibly making your own canvases, your own paint brushes, and your own paints. And on top of that you had to be a skilled painter! > The walls on the streets of Pompeii are full of advertising -- they had an election going on and people just scribbled slogans and such on walls. You don't need flyers lol. The American revolution included a lot of propaganda courtesy of printing presses and some very rich financers who had a vested interest in a revolution occuring. Pamphlets everywhere. It is one thing to scribble on a wall, it is another to produce messages at a mass scale. That sense of scale has been multiplied yet again by AI.

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altmanaltman 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, that's just the impact that you're not going to hear in the news ("Small business saves a couple of hundred dollars" is not a good headline). But that's not the only "impact of AI". The bigger impacts are reflected in the news and the stock market almost on a daily basis over the last two years.

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AstroBen 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Couple hundred dollars

..a month

..multiplied by how many small businesses globally?