@OccultMonk I agree largely with what your saying on the blog although there are few things I don't. Lets not kid ourselves here and pretend like we had a paradise before AI came out. Go to social media websites, Artstation, Youtube, DeviantArt especially, etc. Can you honestly say those places weren't already flooded with…
I honestly don't think most employers will care. They'll just accept whatever the AI gives and try to modify it a little, then stick with that. They'll attempt to use human hands as little as possible and for the instances they do, because less skill and work in general is needed from a person, it opens the position up for…
Many people supporting AI art really are clueless. Instant gratification is all there is here. Though I can see it being used for some meaningful work, its just where the images were sourced from makes it disturbing to use. That and the endless saturation, any iota or creativity even in the prompts is totally lost on me.
I hope you're absolutely right with these words. I'm feeling a lot of anxiety these days. Like many other artists, I've put all my eggs in the basket of 3D art for audiovisual productions of any kind. If this way of making a living is compromised, I don't know if I'll be able to adapt to another field. A universal basic…
Off-topic, but I really wish games would be less efficient in the parts that matter. Is open world design not the cancer that killed games? Going bigger means optimizing pipelines for throughput so multiple designers can work on the same map at once without conflict. There's no space for authorial intent anymore. It's…
Actually in architecture, the people doing it call themselves designers or visualizers, maybe that term is more appropriate with AI art prompters? Or you could say they are the lowest form of menial labor in art generation, kind of like trash pickers that work in the dumps foraging through garbage looking for recycling.…
That's not really true though. AI bros who don't have visual skills will just pump out the same old stuff. Which may look great to the average person on an Instagram feed. But once you need specific results that work within the constraints of an actual game production context, their "skills" will never translate. When we…
An informed and well-reasoned article on Lawfare about the copyright implications, and an argument for granting copyright only to human-generated works. If we allow computers to make new copyrights, we should expect an AI-generated version of every melody and chord change possible to be authored and copyrighted, followed…
Oh I agree that humans have an inherent skill to be creative and generate new concepts where none previously existed just due to life experiences. Thats something we'll always have over the AI, but my point here was that when it comes to generating what we consider to be original art, what the AI is generating and how it…
There's nothing to really gain by embracing AI in the way the tech bros are marketing right now. Ultimately whatever you accomplish easily gets drowned out by the glut of prompt typers. And at every step along the way a well trained artist will still coax out better work from it and be able to process the output in a…