Not sure if it’s because I’m getting older but I’m not optimistic at all about AI shit. Call me what you want but I do believe AI art slop will drown out human artists. Full disclosure I am a terrible artist so you’d be correct to say I do have something to worry about but I’d argue being a great artist doesn’t protect you either.
Exhibit A. And I swear to God there was a reddit post where the OP detailed how they trained their AI to spit out Loish artwork but I can’t seem to find it. So anyone can just train their machine to replicate an artist’s style for a fraction of the cost (if any at all).
Now I do see some use cases for AI art and if you want to make them go ahead (why do you what some sperg on the internet thinks?). Like if you want to shitpost on twitter with an image of Doomguy pope. Hell I’ve even dabbled with it for shits and giggles. But I feel that AI is less a tool and more a replacement. Sure people said the same about Photoshop and the camera but the former was just moving the canvas to the digital space and the latter is limited by what exists. If a tool can do the work for you, is it a tool? Sure PS has the computer do some things (gradients for instance) but that still requires human input and decision making. AI removes that human element.
Yes AI fucks up
for now it has and will continue to get better and easier to use. And if there are still fuck ups in the image just get another AI to fix it and repeat ad nauseam. Easier than hiring an artist who might want a raise. Of course the current crop of human made entertainment isn’t very good but I think AI will just automate the slop Hollywood vomits up for easy money. Really needs to be some kind of reform in the entertainment industry to fix this problem. Even getting into another profession isn’t guaranteed to save you as any job that needs a human can just be done with AI and companies like Unitree and Figure are making robots to do plumbing.
I also really don’t think people care about quality as much as they say they do. EA makes terrible sports game every year and they rake in billions. Konami thought it was a good idea to hand the reins of remastering the Silent Hills franchise to some no name phone app company. Sure there was backlash but the game still made money. Fortnite is not a good game but it generates billions. So if a company puts out a shitty product using AI assets or AI code people won’t care. Lots of companies have terrible websites and haven’t fixed them since.
Overall, I’d love to be wrong and don’t take this as me saying AI has no place. Again, if you want to use AI be my guest, I’m not your fucking dad. I just don’t think AI art will be as beneficial as people think. I wanted to get this stuff off my chest. Thank you for reading an old man’s doomposting. I think overall I’m just a negative person.