We're at a historic crossroad - AI has finally evolved to the point where it can replace an entire industry of human labour. Online art commissions are the first payed service that is about to be fully automated by AI. This is different from previous applications of AI insofar as the full procedure can be performed by the algorythm, making thousands of people and their services redundant, whereas previous applications just streamlined aspects of the process, reduced workload or increased productivity while maintaining (most) jobs associated with the procedure.
>who cares haha art faggots btfo etc.
Yes, it is indeed quite ironic that it is artists to be first impacted in this manner. However, this is only a taste of the things to come. It's becoming increasingly clear that a majority of professions will fall victim to AI optimization or replacement. Again, ironically, the only safe jobs are the 'low-class' jobs that require complex and highly varying mechanical interaction with physical objects - such as plumbing.
AI ends commission industry:
Well you'll still have AI artists who will have to make custom adjustments
>However, this is only a taste of the things to come
yes,find ways to adapt to it though - use it to make something better
not just that, you need someone to:
- make the source material
-make clever prompts
Having something made by a human will always be more valuable. It's original. It gives authenticity. "mmMMmm yeesss I'm soo riiiich. Here's my beautiful painting do you liike it? It was made by a real person, I employ my own painter. ahahahha *rich wrist flick* you know how it is out here
Most people aren’t creative enough to do unique prompts. At a certain point, the volume of common prompts by businesses and individuals who leverage AI for their art will cause most AI art to just feel like stock photos. Smart artists will find ways to use it to help create interesting compositions while boring ones will do simple paint overs which will eventually lead to that same stock photo effect. AI art is amazing but clever people will wield it to transform their artwork.
>Having something made by a human will always be more valuable. It's original. It gives authenticity.
Yes, but it will aslo be 10-100x as axpesnive as the alternative. People generally prefer a hand-made plate or a mouth-blown artisan glass to the industrail version, but these make up less than 1% of total plate and glass sales today.
I have no doubt that we will see 'genuine, human-made' labels equivalent to 'hand-made' labels emerge over the coming decades, but human production will rapidly shrink as a share of total production.
Lots of artists will also cheat and sell AI art as their own creation.
AI doesn't threaten art any more or less than it already has, about the only thing that the modernists get right is that the specialness of the creation is in some regard related to its uniqueness, which is why applying an oilify filter to a photo has yet to replace either oil paintings or photos as the preferred way to enjoy landscapes.
What it will be the death of is regular old illustration. Think the shitty ascended thumbnails that are plastered on every article churned out by the machine in current year, the third world outsourced digital sketches that are at the top of the corporate gay pride acknowledgement of indigenous queers. Those have already decayed to the state that they are in today because there are too many articles being produced too quickly needing too many quickly obtained unique images, leading to the two major schools of "thumbnails submitted as finished work" and "shitty corpo/alegria style vector graphics that you can churn out in 10 minutes" popping up. These schools of illustration are easily replaced by AI, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the big players have already done so.
>tl;dr art isn't going anywhere, illustration is fucked
Is AI going to pretend to be the references I make up on my resume?
some broad at the local farmers market was selling rando dalle pics printed on film paper for $5 a pop
Got anything non-blurry and non-shitty?
People commissions artists for clout, to see their kink in their particular style, and out of pricetag shopping. I shit you not, as someone who does this for a living, raising the price makes more people commission you. It's entirely based on clout.
I actually ended up using a decent bot to generate scene art for a DnD session yesterday. Its was kind of spooky really
it looks great as a thumbnail but strange and uncanny if you zoom in. but it worked wonderfully for what I wanted and I can imagine it will only get better.
I never would've paid an artist to make simple splash art though
Robot slaves
And then what would we do?
Well our taste in art Has been conditioned to make this possible. Ever noticed how everything is so ugly? I guess an AI can do this sort of thing as well as any nihilistic fagot.
It's less about the art trade, which is a tax evasion scheme for kikes but rather about commissionfags who make bank with furry porn on Patreon
Its all hype from people who don't understand AI.
Nice
People support artists on patreon to see the content locked behind their paywall, and the most successful ones have serial content. You can't use an AI to accurately predict the next few pages of a comic.
