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Great article and I absolutely agree that we are at the dawn of an age of creation. I would only argue that creative humans won’t necessarily be displaced. Things that we consider art, are art because they cause a stirring of the soul and that comes from it stemming from somewhere within the soul of the artist.
I don’t think a machine can genuinely “create” that. Replicate to an amazing degree of accuracy at an unbelievable rate, yes, but not quite the level a real artist would produce.
I don’t believe that we as a species even understand ourselves what or where the soul/spirit is, so I’m confident that we’ll not build a machine that can have it. If we did by accident then it’d be an even bigger fluke than us being here in the first place!
Someone in these comments said that it will certainly be a great tool for human artists for boosting productivity, THAT I agree with. Especially the part about the artist needing to build on top of what the machine creates.
I’d be very interested to see, however, how the level of “soul replication” changes if/when quantum computation becomes usable in this space. I may need to eat my words.
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For physical art, I am 100% in agreement, the speed of a single stroke or the strength that an artist applies to a single line can showcase so much emotion at a level that is almost imperceivable and certainly not something AI will be able to replicate for a long time (if ever).
But as for digital art, I feel a machine can spit out something that is stirring and full of emotion, even if the machine itself does not have a concept of emotion, soul or spirit.
It is, as with all art, in the eye of the beholder and I have seen MidJourney in particular create art that I find quite stirring and stimulating.
As for the displacement of artists, as with anything that is relative.
Maybe 10% of professional artists will no longer be able to sustain themselves, maybe it will be 90%. I am certainly not saying all artists will be displaced, but there is almost a certainty that some will. And as you pointed out, some will embrace AI and probably be even more successful as they can create more art in much less time.
As for quantum computers...yes we will see there, I am certainly not educated enough on the topic to even guess what that will hold for us! 💗
Fullstack dev who works every day with Laravel, prefer backend, but I try my best to brush up on front end stuff cos that’s all anyone ever sees.
I write to make sure I understand things properly.
It’s true, midjourney does produce some weird and wonderful stuff, but I’d be very interested to see two pieces, side by side, one just an ai output and the other the same image but tweak by an artist. Do you think the ai one would still illicit the same emotional response from the viewer when there is a (potentially) more comparatively stirring version beside it?
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Oh side by side, I imagine an artist could add maybe 10-30% more emotion! I have no doubt of that.
But in reality, unless this was art that was of high value, the time spent would not be recouped as the commercial use case for AI art is generally "throwaway" and for short term use, rather than long term admiration.
I imagine most of the value of digital artists (from a commercial aspect) will be in composition from AI images (as AI is terrible for giving you exactly what you want in a single image at the moment), combining parts people want from multiple images into an image that matches the vision someone had. Also in clearing up artefacts (as AI loves to give creatures extra legs for example) on images.
Additionally AI art is (at present) very limited on certain subjects, because there is insufficient data in the training set, so there is still plenty of scope for work where a very specific item is needed.
All of this does not consider art for personal enjoyment, where there is far more value in the nuance a human can add. I cannot see AI art taking as big of a bite out of this market.
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Great article and I absolutely agree that we are at the dawn of an age of creation. I would only argue that creative humans won’t necessarily be displaced. Things that we consider art, are art because they cause a stirring of the soul and that comes from it stemming from somewhere within the soul of the artist.
I don’t think a machine can genuinely “create” that. Replicate to an amazing degree of accuracy at an unbelievable rate, yes, but not quite the level a real artist would produce.
I don’t believe that we as a species even understand ourselves what or where the soul/spirit is, so I’m confident that we’ll not build a machine that can have it. If we did by accident then it’d be an even bigger fluke than us being here in the first place!
Someone in these comments said that it will certainly be a great tool for human artists for boosting productivity, THAT I agree with. Especially the part about the artist needing to build on top of what the machine creates.
I’d be very interested to see, however, how the level of “soul replication” changes if/when quantum computation becomes usable in this space. I may need to eat my words.
It’s certainly all very, very interesting indeed!
For physical art, I am 100% in agreement, the speed of a single stroke or the strength that an artist applies to a single line can showcase so much emotion at a level that is almost imperceivable and certainly not something AI will be able to replicate for a long time (if ever).
But as for digital art, I feel a machine can spit out something that is stirring and full of emotion, even if the machine itself does not have a concept of emotion, soul or spirit.
It is, as with all art, in the eye of the beholder and I have seen MidJourney in particular create art that I find quite stirring and stimulating.
As for the displacement of artists, as with anything that is relative.
Maybe 10% of professional artists will no longer be able to sustain themselves, maybe it will be 90%. I am certainly not saying all artists will be displaced, but there is almost a certainty that some will. And as you pointed out, some will embrace AI and probably be even more successful as they can create more art in much less time.
As for quantum computers...yes we will see there, I am certainly not educated enough on the topic to even guess what that will hold for us! 💗
It’s true, midjourney does produce some weird and wonderful stuff, but I’d be very interested to see two pieces, side by side, one just an ai output and the other the same image but tweak by an artist. Do you think the ai one would still illicit the same emotional response from the viewer when there is a (potentially) more comparatively stirring version beside it?
Oh side by side, I imagine an artist could add maybe 10-30% more emotion! I have no doubt of that.
But in reality, unless this was art that was of high value, the time spent would not be recouped as the commercial use case for AI art is generally "throwaway" and for short term use, rather than long term admiration.
I imagine most of the value of digital artists (from a commercial aspect) will be in composition from AI images (as AI is terrible for giving you exactly what you want in a single image at the moment), combining parts people want from multiple images into an image that matches the vision someone had. Also in clearing up artefacts (as AI loves to give creatures extra legs for example) on images.
Additionally AI art is (at present) very limited on certain subjects, because there is insufficient data in the training set, so there is still plenty of scope for work where a very specific item is needed.
All of this does not consider art for personal enjoyment, where there is far more value in the nuance a human can add. I cannot see AI art taking as big of a bite out of this market.