SpaceCow
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- Jan 7, 2017
I said this in the Stable Diffusion thread, but I'll say it again:
The only people threatened by AI art right now are people who make non-specific art for stuff like clipart and stock images. This isn't actually many artists. AI can make cool art, but it can't really give you EXACTLY what you want. Most of the time, people hire artists with specific needs in mind, and need an artist that can make exactly what they want. This may change in the future, but right now most artists are safe.
I could see an artist being afraid of AI art taking their job ten years from now, because they keep finding ways to make it better. But I don't sympathize with artists who are upset their images were maybe part of the learning material for machine art... the machines just did exactly what human brains do with art: regurgitate things they've seen before.
The only people threatened by AI art right now are people who make non-specific art for stuff like clipart and stock images. This isn't actually many artists. AI can make cool art, but it can't really give you EXACTLY what you want. Most of the time, people hire artists with specific needs in mind, and need an artist that can make exactly what they want. This may change in the future, but right now most artists are safe.
I could see an artist being afraid of AI art taking their job ten years from now, because they keep finding ways to make it better. But I don't sympathize with artists who are upset their images were maybe part of the learning material for machine art... the machines just did exactly what human brains do with art: regurgitate things they've seen before.