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1. keiferski · 1790255905 · focus · HN ↗

   In the world of arts/media, I think AI basically only has a future as a hidden thing. Openly admitting that you used AI to make something will be used against you, in order to dismiss your work. For a lot of people/things, it already is - see Hank Green, or the daily comments about "I don't want to read what you didn't write."

   Expect a massive marketing reversal in 6-12 months, when every "AI-powered" company removes the keyword from their home page.

   1. orangedog · 1790256742 · focus · HN ↗

      I really doubt it. I think more and more people will get used to it and accept it. It's not going anywhere. The best artists and creators will figure out how to use tech which empowers them and then what will the rest of the artists and creatives do? Refuse to engage with modernity? I doubt it.

      It only takes a single project to show it works to get other people jumping on board. Some amount of gamers are pretty vocal about it (though I'm sure it's being used in most studios these days in some fashion). If a company creates a game which embraces the "slop" and has great assets on a fun game are people going to avoid it? If that works out, will companies following them avoid it? That's just not how people work.

      1. archagon · 1790267471 · focus · HN ↗

         How does AI “empower” artists…?

         1. boorang · 1790318607 · focus · HN ↗

            you don't need to learn blender anymore. you can talk with the ai and describe what you want and iterate. all of the software tools used in media are now accessible to creative but not necessarily technical people.

            1. esarbe · 1790336979 · focus · HN ↗

               Just describing what you want doesn't make you an artist. It makes you a client.

               Just iteratively refusing what a stochastic generative algorithm presents to you doesn't make you an artist. It makes you a client with attitude.

               1. orangedog · 1790342825 · focus · HN ↗

                  I think this is just gatekeeping. If you are involved in the creative process - additive or subtractive, you are an artist.

                  1. _g0xr · 1790352738 · focus · HN ↗

                     Funny how I've only seen people make this kind of claim about AI, and never about people who commission art from artists.

                     Pope Julius II did not paint the Sistine Chapel's ceilling. Michelangelo did. I cannot believe I have to say this.

                     1. esarbe · 1790412425 · focus · HN ↗

                        Exactly.

                        If just "being involved" in the "creative process" is enough to be called an artist, then by that measure that includes the guys that are simply involved by having the money to patron the process. Maybe it also includes the guy delivering the pizza.

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