This stuff is so cool and it makes me happy that we're democratizing artistic ability. But I can't help but think RIP to all of the freelance artists out there. As these models become more mainstream and more advanced, that industry is going to be decimated.
Translators at least have official documents (aka the only times I see a translator in my life across 3 countries) because the government is retarded and needs someone with a title to translate "Name" and "Surname" on a birth certificate.
There is no equivalent for illustrators.
My friends who studied some specific language are all unemployed or doing unqualified jobs. Their peers from a generation before are teachers or work in some embassy.
That said, before some unicorn really start doing some serious polishing, you'll still want some illustrators to piece art together. Taking the output of these models won't deliver a ready made product easily.
I will rephrase it: if people today are available to eat dirt instead of nourishment - etc. for innumerable instances -, to get contented with lack of quality (with the akin acceptance of consequential decline of the general perception of quality), the fault is more in decadence than in instruments.
You need well cultivated intelligence to obtain a good product: if "anything goes" is the motto, if "cheap" is the "mandate", there lies the issue.
Only in the same manner that GPT-3 eliminates the need for writers. Or influencers remove the need for advertising.
That is, a surface-level view might show these things as equivalent, but the skills required to produce a decent result are not encapsulated in the averages that models contain.
I'm sure a lot of "content writers" for SEO spam will become obsolete. The content level is already rock bottom, so is easily replaced by brainless machines.
But I'm more bothered by sociatal effects where art is automated. I believe it'll expedite the effects we saw when the internet short circuited the feedback loop for creators, killing any gaps where non revenue optimizing humane creative force could thrive. Not to mention the crazy mimetic positive feedback loops tearing the discourse apart.
I dunno. I've read a lot of GPT output. It lacks a certain consistency over medium scales. The big picture checks out, and the word-by-word grammar checks out, but the sentence-by-sentence information often isn't cohesive, or certain entity references change over time.
Text-to-image algos did the same thing for a while, but you look at the latest full-size DALL-E and it's pretty much flawless.
If I were considering art school, I'd certainly be reconsidering my options. Maybe there are some defects in the output, but nothing photoshop can't fix.
I think where humans win out (for now) is where a high degree of specificity/precision is needed (e.g. graphic design). Or certain legal requirements are present - AI art can't be copyrighted at this time - such as logo design.
Or most places where art is displayed and/or sold, because those places generally disparage purely digital art, and method is part of what goes into the valuation of the piece. "Oil on canvas" is worth more than "AI-assisted digital print", especially because duplicating it requires considerable effort.
I really don’t think that this will be the case anytime soon. Images can be generated from zany prompts, but making a coherent, fits-together-well set of images for a product like a web page or an illustrated book is far off.
Further, artists have a host of skills that DALL-E doesn’t, like “take that image, but change the colors a bit to make it more acceptable to the client, and move the cartoon bird a little further down”. Or “make an image that will look as good in a print as it does on a small screen”.
"an illustrated book is far off".
Hi, just to mention that i'm using mini DALL-E for graphic novel experiments... Indeed not really a human quality but ... https://twitter.com/Dbddv01
