My thoughts about AI are similar to yours. AI tools can help small business owners who have tight (startup) budgets create what they need at the beginning. I believe they’ll hire humans, eventually, as funds allow.
As a Creative, my biggest grudge against AI is that yet again a technology is being used to push out actually creative thought and insight in order to satisfy a quick or cheap solution.
In the four decades that I've been a graphic designer and Illustrator, I seen how creative professionals have been decimated. First by the rise of desktop computers and apps made by companies like Adobe. Which at first were and are great tools that made creating easier, but alternatively they also allowed a crowd of people to pose as creatives without actually having once ounce of skill. Furthermore with this flood of talentless talent came the decrease in earning potential thanks to businesses and employment agencies taking advantage of these desperate masses forcing them into and ever downward spiral of worth.
This destruction was compounded by the internet which opened up local design client to being able to choose from a world wide field of competiting creatives. Websites like Fivver and others allow a client to hire a "designer" to work for the equivalent cost of a Happy Meal.
Of course all along there were designers who said "You get what you pay for" and "a quality client will seek a quality designer/artist." But this hubristic over-confidence is completely avoiding the reality of economics and the impact of ubiquitous, easily affordable solutions.
If a client who sells sunflower seeds and needs an image of a sunflower for an ad, views a gallery of well painted sunflowers all with similar quality, will they buy the one that is on sale for $10 or the one that is $100000?
Which brings us now to the question of AI imagery and writing. While there will be those who still want to see the human hand of the artist behind the work, the masses will be subjected to and conditioned to accept the flood of AI work that artists and their clients will be drowned in.
Once again, if the Sunflower Seed client needs an image of a sunflower painting, and they are given the choice between a painting that is $10 and a hundred AI generated NFT variations that can be had for 10 cents each, which will they choose?
It presents a real paradox between the valuation of the human hand vs. the AI creation, which in my depressing humble opinion will economically further this downward spiral for honest human creativity.
But with that in mind, in the very near future there's going to be huge copyright lawsuits over the way AI creations pillage the work made by humans. Probably the best thing any artist can do right now is make sure they have strong copyrights on all their work.
My thoughts about AI are similar to yours. AI tools can help small business owners who have tight (startup) budgets create what they need at the beginning. I believe they’ll hire humans, eventually, as funds allow.
Thanks for introducing readers to Meg. 😊
As a Creative, my biggest grudge against AI is that yet again a technology is being used to push out actually creative thought and insight in order to satisfy a quick or cheap solution.
In the four decades that I've been a graphic designer and Illustrator, I seen how creative professionals have been decimated. First by the rise of desktop computers and apps made by companies like Adobe. Which at first were and are great tools that made creating easier, but alternatively they also allowed a crowd of people to pose as creatives without actually having once ounce of skill. Furthermore with this flood of talentless talent came the decrease in earning potential thanks to businesses and employment agencies taking advantage of these desperate masses forcing them into and ever downward spiral of worth.
This destruction was compounded by the internet which opened up local design client to being able to choose from a world wide field of competiting creatives. Websites like Fivver and others allow a client to hire a "designer" to work for the equivalent cost of a Happy Meal.
Of course all along there were designers who said "You get what you pay for" and "a quality client will seek a quality designer/artist." But this hubristic over-confidence is completely avoiding the reality of economics and the impact of ubiquitous, easily affordable solutions.
If a client who sells sunflower seeds and needs an image of a sunflower for an ad, views a gallery of well painted sunflowers all with similar quality, will they buy the one that is on sale for $10 or the one that is $100000?
Which brings us now to the question of AI imagery and writing. While there will be those who still want to see the human hand of the artist behind the work, the masses will be subjected to and conditioned to accept the flood of AI work that artists and their clients will be drowned in.
Once again, if the Sunflower Seed client needs an image of a sunflower painting, and they are given the choice between a painting that is $10 and a hundred AI generated NFT variations that can be had for 10 cents each, which will they choose?
It presents a real paradox between the valuation of the human hand vs. the AI creation, which in my depressing humble opinion will economically further this downward spiral for honest human creativity.
But with that in mind, in the very near future there's going to be huge copyright lawsuits over the way AI creations pillage the work made by humans. Probably the best thing any artist can do right now is make sure they have strong copyrights on all their work.