Hey dudes. So, I live in Scandinavia , because of a tall blonde- married happily so far (for 13 years). Have a huge teenage kid and a tiny 2 year old girl who has been sick a lot this year. I work as a professional artist: mostly artwork for commercial and film companies : pretty well known, usually very well paid. However, as AI started producing a lot more things, I see that business is going down- with the only thing I ever trained for and loved to do for hours and hours on end ( drawing) kind of disappearing. I am taking steps to rebrand myself – I know it’s gonna be a hard haul and I’m trying to hang in there: but I wonder if anyone has the same experience- being a good horse up against like a Cadillac or something. Outdated – competing against a machine based on a massive fraud that basically steals every bit of imagery it can. I sort of can’t relate to the artists – because those are often either born rich – and never had to really work for a living or provide for a family- so I wanted tia so if any of you dealt with anything similar. Thanks in advance.
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spent last 2 years having very short temp contracts as a tech artist, very annoying but I think AI will replace most of the jobs soon, I just wait for it to completely replace what I do and see what to do next, can’t plan for the future being this anxious the whole time tbh
My sister is an artist and she expanded her stack to include ChatGPT and Adobe’s image gen tools. Her workflows are now a mix of AI generated images with extensive manual editing. She also leverages AI for ideation ahead of manually drawing a painting – think having ChatGPT generate the painting first then iterating to get a final version to draw in real life.
It is going to streamline a lot of content creation, but I do think at some point the need for an artist is required.
I would recommend embracing it as a tool.
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There’s honestly only one way. Be the one who wields the AI and makes things happen. I was a programmer. I am witnessing in my day to day life that the job of writing code too is vanishing. Still someone is paid to deliver the piece of executable software to the right place and guarantee an adequate quality, and it’s going to be some time before that too goes away.
Software is going to be much cheaper, and I suppose that’s a good thing. It means we will produce much more of it in shorter time.
I suppose the same can be true for art, but the things we do on a daily basis change quickly.
I think I agree that artist creation – or content creation – is necessary. What I’m feeling is that the only way out of this dilemma is to brand your content in a way that it creates and holds some authentic value that is impossible to steal. Like the experience of visiting the Hermitage or Louvre or something. The only way out is to groom and own some form of artistic real estate , in a way. That’s what I’m spending all my savings and contacts to do- betting it all on one idea . Let’s see if it saves my butt…
I dont know. That sounds more like insecurity.
Ai art is.. a joke imo. But art is subjective. Ai art is either abstract or highly photo realistic. Both forms I don’t care about (especially photo realism is my least favorite form of art) art is creativity. Humans are creative, robots are not. They are perceived as creative but in reality.. its our creativity that acts like a catalyst for ai.
I say, never underestimate thr creativity of the human spirit. Yoy may have to adjust your style, but don’t doubt your creativity.
The real issue isn’t ai being more creative though or deemed ‘better’, I’d argue it’s simply $$$$. Ai is way cheaper.
I’m not convinced AI art will replace human-made art.
My suspicion is this is a fad, and, yes, there will be a place for AI art, but it’s somehow not as impressive as something made by a human. And I think we’ll all gradually realize it.
It’s great if I need a shitty logo, or something whipped up real quick, but I think we’ll all realize the soul is missing.
AI is a tool, and like every tool before it has the potential to make thing easier on average for humans. Either that or just increase total output and live just as difficult.
Every new tool and technology, there’s a group of people complaining that it will cause people to lose their jobs. Sure, in the short term it will, and it will be difficult for some people to adjust. But ij the long run, in general, losing jobs and losing entire industries is a good thing. It means people are working less for the same result.
If only society as a whole decided we all work slightly fewer hours for slightly more pay with each new technology. In a perfect system that’s what it would look like. For example imagine a clan of 100 people all living off the land and working hard to survive. If they suddenly had EVERYTHING automated, they could theoretically do whatever they please with their time and not work.
I’m sure the printing press put people out of work as well.
Still, there always has been and will always be demand for human art. It just won’t be as high demand, and not used for basic stuff. I bought some handmade copper mugs in Mexico because I enjoy owning stuff people made themselves. But it’s still useful to have factories producing drinking vessels so the poor single mom of 3 kids isn’t shelling out for handmade art so her kids can use a different cup 10 times a day.
I doubt my job will ever be taken over by AI. I work in Dispatch for a police department.
I say embrace it. start an agency, train the ai on your art, and triple your rates.
I sympathize. I’m a filmmaker (make my living working with businesses) and I’ve started to notice market share disappearing to AI. With that being said, there’s clients of mine that specifically ask me to not use AI tools on their projects (I don’t use AI in my creative process) because they don’t want the work to look or sound “AI”.
In the end, I think the real talented humans survive but the less unique trend chasers will be lost to AI.