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It's so sad how many 2D/3D Artists and Developers don't appreciate the potential in this. And the sad thing is that 15 year olds look to you, Sam. So if you stay negative and think that the future is VHS, then you'll end up like Blockbuster, and it will be no one's fault, but your own. I'm a software engineer specializing in web/mobile/games AND an 2D artist/graphic designer/videographer/multimedia, with 22 years in the industry and I'm actually using Chat GPT to help expand my skill set into 3D art atm. To your point about someone saying "you put your art online, it's free to steal" ... 100% agree that's a dumbass thing to say, and can guarantee there is a child behind the computer saying that, that has zero concept of the real world. Ignore them and move on. To your other point about original works of art being stolen... I agree, and I'll get to that in a second. >>>>> The biggest take away is that these types of "scares" have happened for decades ya'll... and what do we do in the industry? We adapt! New skill sets are needed for these new tools and technologies. People said the same thing about Dreamweaver and Motion Capture and C#.... "they're taking our jobs, we'll be obsolete!" But that isn't the case, and it never will be. All it did was create better ways for humans to do things and be more productive and created new skill sets in the industries. CONS There are currently 3 majors CONs, and steps are being taken to actively address them. 1) AI art largely draws on the styles of humans. The ones that are alive today that have created their own unique style as they ones that are most affected by this, and their art is no longer considered "unique". A counter "PRO" to this of course is that the original artist has years of published works proving their skill and competency. People who know that artist recognize their work. And anyone using AI art to generate art in that artist's style needs the technical skill to be able to "fix" the art in the same style. 2) AI art is faster than humans, which means people are selling AI art on Fiverr, Envato, Etsy, etc, taking commissions away from artists. You have two options here: a) you can use this to your advantage and help yourself get faster commissions by taking advantage of the speed of AI art as a base concept. You can also sell your services to "fix" issues with AI art (like weird ass mushroom fingers and hair that's coming out of someone's eyeballs) b) or you can use critical thinking skills to understand that people still PAY FOR QUALITY. Some people can only afford the $4 trash bags from the Dollar Store, and there is no shame in that. But they learn really quickly that if they spend $10 on the sturdier trash bags.. yea it's more expensive... but their trash bags dont rip when they have to take out the trash. 3) Some corporations who don't understand "how the sausage is made" when it comes to Dev, 2D Art, 3D Art, etc... will likely hire cheap labor from entries in these fields that are using AI works because they don't have the technical skill set in these fields. They're learn REALLY quick why that's a bad idea. The only real MAJOR con to this is that if it's a large company that relies on the safety of humans... (like a car company that's using code from an AI to help engineer a response for a car accident) that could be detrimental to AI as a whole, and to humans as a whole. PROS But there are a lot more pros. And if you read this and still think artists are going away with the Dinos afterwards, then you haven't been paying attention to history, or you are just listening to people trying to scare you that lack critical thinking skills. 1) 20 years ago, people thought DreamWeaver was going to "take our jobs". It hasn't, and stuff like this never will. These are all just tools to help humans progress. People said the same thing about mocaps. 3D animators were scared motion capture would take their jobs, and what it actually did was create a new type of skill set. 2) For stuff like code generation: you still need to be a programmer to actually use it. It's like speaking another language. If you don't speak Chinese, and you just copy and paste what a bot gives you: it's gibberish to people who actually speak Chinese. Code generation will help you improve your code and it will help newbies learn faster. But snippets of code do not make a complete framework. Bots will never be able to produce a complex industry framework for free. The best you can use it for is quick prototypes. 3) The same can be said for mock-ups. Imagine you have a customer that asks for a specific character design, and you spend a week drawing a concept, only to have the customer hate everything. You can instead, spend an hour with your customer prompting an AI so they can see potential variations and visuals of what they have in mind. The AI art is usually just a piece of the puzzle. It's now up to you to either clean up the piece or recreate it using the AI art as a base. If you're a freelancer, this means more money in your pocket, because you'll be able to take on more clients than you would before. 4) The generated art is far from perfect. Bots can't draw hands, because humans can't draw hands (and feet). Most of the art is a portrait of a person, and even though DALL-E can "fill in the rest"... it's not nearly as perfect as it's advertised to be. You still need an artist to fix things. 5) The bots learn from humans. Look at paintings throughout history. You can visibly see a style of drawing from different eras in time. Humans did that. A bot will never be able to learn a new drawing technique. These bots can help people learn new techniques faster and humans will be the ones to push the envelope. 6) As with Mocaps, all this is going to do is create a new type of skill. There are 3D artists that are hired to fix issues with Motion Capture. Mocaps speed up the process of 3D animation, and an entire job was born to help with this process. 20 years ago, I learned how to make websites that non-programmers can use to make websites. They don't teach that kind of stuff in schools anymore. Instead, they teach kids how to USE those websites (like Joomla, Wix, WordPress, etc) to create websites for their clients faster. It's the same thing. 20 years from now, some of the jobs we grew up with will be obsolete, but new jobs and new skills will be needed for these tools. You just have to adapt. And not only that, take C and C++ for example. There are plenty of jobs that still require C and C++, but we have C# now, which has made some other jobs faster. It just depends on the type of work that's being done. This isn't a bad thing at all. 7) Anyone who applies to a job using an "AI portfolio"... they're not going to be able to keep up with people who actually have that skill set. And it's REALLY obvious to tell what is AI art and what isn't. Ai is starting to make some amazing stuff, but you're also going to see hair coming out of someone's eyeball, or fingers that look like mushrooms, or weapons floating in the air. An actual artist has to paint over that art to fix it. If the person who was hired is incapable of doing that, they wont have that job very long. 8) Also going back to mockups, specifically for web, mobile or software in general. The bot gives you a concept, but is doesn't give you assets. You still have to make that shit lol. It can generate a really awesome icon pack, but again: you have to clean that up or redraw pieces of the set. You can't just sell a flat .jpg to a customer for $10 and expect your freelance account to get 5 stars for amazing work. 9) You can use AI art as an opportunity to generate a prompt and create a "BEFORE | AFTER" style portfolio. Create the AI, and if you've used an Artist's name as part of the prompt, credit the original artist that the AI drew from. You can showcase your ability to improve concept art and cleanup strange details created by the AI, by showing both photos side-by-side. You can also use this just to learn new techniques by studying the way the art was made and trying to duplicate that style. 10) There is no rule that says the finished piece is what you have to use. Many pieces created by AI are only portraits from the shoulders up. What does the rest of the body look like? What do the shoes look like? What does the environment look like? These are opportunities you can use to mix and match variations created by the AI and train yourself to think outside the box. 11) Lastly, don't act like artists don't use reference photos. Don't act like you don't Google for hours on end, especially when you were first starting out, looking on Amazon for an umbrella to study how it looks at different angles and then using that knowledge to draw that umbrella in your own art style. I'm not saying you copy the AI generated art 1:1. I'm saying you can use it in so many different ways to help you improve your own art. AI will never replace a real artist or a real programmer. I can confidently say that as a software architect and engineer. The kiddos that are script kidding all up in here with their AI code... that falls apart REALLY quickly. The 3D artists are safe as well, because again... that shit blows up really fast if the 3D artist doesn't understand proper implementation of their art in software, especially mobile. Graphic designers and 2D artists now have a tool that will allow them to concept and idea and produce freelance work at twice the speed (again: using your OWN art style, but treating AI as a TOOL) You'll probably see quick AI art in indie games and low budget software. But you'll never see a PROFESSIONAL website using an AI generated shoe with shoelaces that lead to no where and a shoe design that wouldn't work on a human foot. You do realize that those of us that actually posses the SKILL are a HUGE ASSET to companies