Sun Oct 23, 2022 11:30 pm by eduardobedoya
Hi Taron, Hi Pilou
Hope you pals are good and safe, Taron, Thomas, knacki, Intars, Zero, Pud, Lemi, Fjgc, stvkmco, k4icy, Olivier, Zero, B, n all good people on this forum (that I dare to spare, sorry).
I received the news about midjourney, stable diffusion, and the like with some regret. It feels like they have opened Pandoras box.
I've read some articles about it, and people agree that AI is going to cut jobs for people who do illustration commissions, I even think it's going to have repercussions on the education field. I can't quite see how this post AI world is going to end up being better for artists and illustrators.
I'm not quite sure, its strange, but somehow it feels like there is more competition in art, and at the same time art itself feels less valuable, or that mainstream media is going to get used to consume quicker, cheaper, artificial artwork.
I've always done art for the sake of how it feels doing it, not for just the sake of the resultant image, that's why I've always use software that resembles natural media, but even doing so, the resultant image was always a sort of goal or orientation, now after the AI art, the goal has somehow blurred. It's only regarding on how it feels making art that I still feel free, but from time to time I come to the idea that it won't be long before AI can mimic any impasto, watercolor, or abstract style, counterfeiting any living artist style, even an experimental artist.
They say AI can't do details very well, details like eyes, sunglasses, hands, and despite that might be overcome with time, I think what AI lacks the most is the content of the art, the subject, and composition, cuz somehow it looks like it scrambles images, not really taking close attention to the overall composition, lighting, and subjects relations of the full art piece.
Let's see how technology unfolds, for the moment, I like to think that I've not yet produced the best piece of artwork that I can. And If I, as a portrait artist have to follow the path that the chess and go champion players went against AI, then those AI hackers would have to train their machine with a huge database of centuries of watercolor and impasto art before they knock me down. xD
Cheers people.
