Is This The Death of VFX?

[@552jacki3]

I love how whether it's real artists or AI no one can draw hands

[@BlueEdgeTechno]

AI learns from human

[@malachi8154]

Cable, Marvel, by Rob Liefeld, FEET VISIBLE

[@shukrantpatil]

Obviously it does unless we fix it with a camera and a self learning AI and give it legs/wheels to move around and a few solar panels …….then it won’t need humans to keep growing anymore 😈

[@robertwyatt3912]

Except Steve Ditko.

[@GaDawg84]

Omg so true! Lol

[@RubberRoss]

As an artist I find this fascinating and also terrifying. It could be a useful tool, but the implications of what it could do to working artists in a few years is scary. Think how it could be trained to harass people online with obscene images.. Or worse. The can of worms this opened is wild.

[@nadiaplaysgames2550]

The way i see it it will lower the work teams needing to making comic and aimatiom(soon) so to make a tv show you only need a handful of people working weekends push out what a big studio push out with more work. this will strip the power of big production corporations and give power to the small teams as now the team is able make what they want no corps telling them what they can or cant do. this doesnt put people it makes people more independent and free from the corps to make what they wish and also makes more level playing field as the good content will rise to the top

[@markcooperartcomofficial]

Its part of a globalist/communist agenda.

[@Pneumanon]

@@nadiaplaysgames2550 Yes, it gives more people the ability to make content. But you have to take into account supply and demand. Yes, there will be a lot more content out there, which means the value of that content will go down in monetary terms. In other words, people will be able to make stuff, but it will be much harder to make money in return.

[@dawsonestes8698]

@@nadiaplaysgames2550 Seems like an awfully small pro compared to the cons listed above. More available sub-par entertainment vs. Instant fabricated reality that can manipulate in infinite ways. I'm incredibly uneasy about this.

[@precisionsniper2012]

@@nadiaplaysgames2550 that model has always assumed that all projects get equal distribution and visibility. If anything, it will increase the profits of big companies since instead of shilling out paying for vfx artists and animators, you can throw more money into the marketing budget or even just pocket the profits. If it's quality enough for people to watch, sure more small channels and creators will be able to create, but only the big companies will have the money to push distribution.

[@c0hink176]

Once AI learns to draw hands, it's all over

[@thekingofcrabs6352]

OH NO

[@Sonofsun.]

And teeth

[@HelamanGile]

@@Sonofsun. stable diffusion is able to draw teeth pretty well it's not perfect yet but it's getting pretty good

[@_N4T]

Animating speech in general

[@Beyondarmonia]

You can already use inpaint to fix the hands.

[@journeyal]

I loved the moral implications that were raised at the end. Man. That is going to live in my mind for a bit. Thanks guys!

[@guyguy463]

It’s amazing how this field of research is advancing on the scale of weeks, instead of months or years. I got access to Dall-E 2 like two months ago, and stable diffusion is already reaching insane new heights. This is exciting and terrifying for the future

[@TheSpoonyCroy]

They joys of open source software.

[@chaosmonkey1595]

I got into it about 3 months ago, first with Disco diffusion, then midjourney, then dall-e then stable. The progress has been so fast that it even feels like a waste of time if you try something new and hard that doesn't work well with the AI - because chances are it might work a 100 times better two weeks later. The speed of progress is insane.

[@jmuetwiller]

7 years before generated art was inexistent. AI generated art took that much time to reach superhuman level... and innovation in AI is only accelerating it's not just art, it goes far beyond that / text / 3D model / video / coding etc... the trend seems to be that text or/and language will be an universal language for everything (you say ---> it act)

[@SahilP2648]

@@jmuetwiller coding is the one thing AI cannot do unless you are talking about an AGI

[@mariofeared]

I'm a senior 3D game artist working for a major company. We've been discussing these AIs for weeks now. Our art director mentioned something interesting. Saying that if an artist would use AI to create a base and continue working, it would be fine. The problem with these AIs is one of consistency. You can't give them feedback and ask for iterative work. Yet. But we'll get there and it's scary as hell.

[@wavebend1474]

You sort of can already, like in the video they're able to make paintings "in the style of...", you just need some training data so it can recognize the consistency and it's good to go

[@mariofeared]

@@wavebend1474 sure, you can tell an AI to copy a style because it has enough data to do so. But you can't really do what the usual iterative process is when concepting characters or environments. You can have a consistent art style but the designs were always different. The armours, weapons, crowns, magic, etc, was always different between images. In a game or movie, there are strict style guides that you must adhere to. Several feedback sessions between art director and artist happens where minute details are discussed. You can't tell an AI the same things you'd say to your staff that would've been easily communicated. "Jeff has the new concepts for the kingdom's banner. We need to change all the armors with the same emblem. Also, make all the buttons red and move the emblem to the right chest plate. Add the shoulder plates from Dan's concept but with the colour scheme from Rob's sketches." This type of feedback is not possible for AI yet. So I don't think art jobs are at risk yet. My fear is producers and executives that think AI would save time. Because it would take more time to fix the work done from an AI than it would be creating it from scratch.

[@bigscheesy4982]

@@wavebend1474 i think what he was trying to say is ai can't iterate upon something it made itself ver well because you would be feeding an ai its own previously generated image, then the quality of its base/input would degrade. You see a similar thing in this video where a lot of the designs and costumes are not consistent because the ai is coming up with new ones every time, based off of photos, not its own images with say eight fingers and a wonky nostril or eye here and there, and only 95% accurate lighting and texture, it just doesn't have that level of intention and understanding yet.

[@bigscheesy4982]

As someone who wants to draw and paint for a living, writing stuff like this make me feel a bit uneasy, like actually putting my thoughts out there about certain blindspots in ai image generation could jinx it and next month all these limitations will disappear and it'll be almost perfect, indistinguishable from real human art.

[@wavebend1474]

@@mariofeared ah yeah, you're right. In the way you've described it it's not possible...

[@TheAnkan001]

Imagine using this for storyboarding. This tech scares me for real but can't deny it is freaking cool.

[@ImperialAlex]

I did use it for a storyboard, sometimes its pretty much a pain when it starts creating things you're actually not asking for, but it's for sure one very handy tool!!

[@Keavon]

The one thing it really isn't good for is blocking, though. And storyboarding is *all* about blocking. It generates a random composition, not the one you were thinking of to convey a frame in a scene. What we need is for the tech to evolve just slightly enough to allow uploading of low-fidelity sketches for blocking a scene and for it to convert that into a rendered storyboard frame. We're already seeing some of that, where you can paint a landscape and it converts the yellow into sand, green into foliage, brown into dirt, and so on for the the final image. But we need to take stick figures or rough sketches of characters and convert their composition and pose into a final result.

[@susu666]

@@Keavon there are ways to get around the blocking issue, 'out-painting' or 'in-painting' is one of them. Dall e 2 allows you to erase areass and place mostly whatever you want there

[@miclowgunman1987]

I've been using it for art for a card game im working on. Some shots are easy to pull off, some you have to mess with prompts for hours just to get a good enough shot.

[@derAtze]

@@Keavon I think something like this already exists. Like on dall-e level. Two minute papers made a video about it, if I remember correctly. It has a thumbnail with a golden warrior standing in between dunes, I'll try to find it

[@lunalienray]

There will probably be a lot of legal and ethical issue in the future around this AI. Many artists do not want their name in the prompt and do not allow to use their arts to feed to AI.

[@bitterbunn1831]

Its disgusting there are already lots of people impersonating and scamming people pretending to be big artist using ai

[@christopherpope4840]

Yes! You said this so much better than I did.

[@NycroLP]

True but it wont stop them. The only way to fight it is by making the government notice it and have them force some regulations.

[@NycroLP]

@@bitterbunn1831 Not only that. They are selling the art and even use fucking watermarks. I shit you not.

[@flufflepimp]

Yeah I actualy Found this episode incredibly upsetting that they didn't even stop to think about the implications of stealing a style an artists has taken a lifetime of blood sweat and tears to develop.

[@shrunkenheadsandspiderwebs697]

As a professional artist who’s practiced for over a decade and is still learning, it’s so hard seeing AI do it in seconds. And knowing people will get a huge following by saying, “hey look what I made!” Like yeah it’s super dope just frustrating; from a certain point of view.

[@bedinor]

It takes more than a few second, but it's still very fast.

[@nikshakya7389]

Yeah man I feel ya.

[@solvemproblerstudios5889]

Incredibly frustrating. I absolutely despise it, because no one cares where it comes from if it’s faster and cheaper. It’s going to hurt so many artists. It’s not my main creative medium but I can empathize with those who’s it is.

[@spitgorge2021]

@@solvemproblerstudios5889 Huh? I think AI is gonna be a great tool for artists to use.

[@notcontentwithlosing]

The thing is that only us humans can replicate details. Yes, in terms of composition and lighting these look great, but zoom in on details like hands, fabrics, faces and slight changes in light/shadow, it's still flawed and it will probably stay that way for quite a while. As long as others strive perfection from artists, you (and me) will not be going bankrupt. I hope.

[@powderphysics]

The Kratos one made me imagine hanging up pictures of myself with these images of various characters. Just imagine how funny that would be to walk into

[@manowa3395]

Genius conversation starter

[@chefmastermikecmm8465]

Let's start a business! That would be an awesome idea. Just need to save some money for the lawyers.

[@timekr]

@@chefmastermikecmm8465 I would love to make that a business, somebody will do it if its not done already.

[@peppermintpig974]

a 3x3 of you as your favorite game and film characters...

[@timekr]

@@peppermintpig974 or imagine custom shirts with u as your favorite character

[@felipehonoriobs]

As an artist an illustrator, this thing scares me on a monetary level. why would someone pay comissions if they can fiddle with ai to get the illustration for what they want?

[@artistnameseven]

I wouldn't worry too much, there will still be people who will want comething specific in a commission that will take the Ai a while to get correctly. Even now the promts that I'm using don't always give me the desired result, ofc things will improve but I think someone made a good point by saying that this will get rid of Mediocre artists but if your craft is amazing and unique then you should be okay

[@KusanagiMotoko100]

True many jobs I had weren't about doing really creative stuff that AI can't match but these type of derivative images they created here, I guess we no longer have a job, lol.

[@cameron7374]

@@artistnameseven I mean, it took what, 2-3 years to get to this point? If the technology doesn't hit a brick wall soon, a massive chunk of artists may be out of work by the end of the decade, depending on how society views and interacts with these things.

[@robertwyatt3912]

Man communism sure is looking good right now.

[@JanPospisilArt]

You are right to worry. Lots and lots of artists do freelance work that's not hugely different to this - very basic assignments very typically painted. Roleplaying book illustration feeds a ton of people and many artists start with it until they develop their unique style and approach. This will now be impossible, because these smaller jobs will almost certainly be automated. Yes, the big famous artists probably don't need to fear. There will be purists willing to pay for their labour. But the smaller less famous ones will suffer.

[@Jezee213]

It honestly makes sense why effects artists and painters are on edge because this stuff is so hard to tell you could in some cases get away with claiming it as real paintings! Incredible!

[@g.swizzle]

I definitely understand why many artists are scared for their job security. I mean, imagine if you're writing a children's book of even a graphic novel. You could literally generate all of the illustration for it in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the money with consistent style. That's nuts. I'm curious about how the AI performs in terms of creating unprecedented art styles. Aside from maybe merging the styles of different artists together, it doesn't seem to be able to invent new styles on its own

[@ryanclemons1]

really the art style don't matter fact is people use other peoples styles all the time.

[@ingeniouswild]

Well, if you think about it, when a human is "creative" they also unconsciously draws on and blends from everything they've seen and learned so far. Which is what the image generator AIs also do now. Creativity is randomness mixed with talent, and you can inject varying degrees of randomness into the AIs and the talent is what it's picked up from studying all existing art and photography.

[@Beyondarmonia]

In order to create new art styles, you need to basically "walk" the latent space. That's not possible with just text prompts. With a little bit of scripting definitely possible. Very time consuming though since not every new area of the latent space is some masterpiece new style. Many aren't even aesthetic enough for a human. Could be solved with some crowd sourcing eg. show some of the new styles and ask to pick the best one as a captcha.

[@shadowsketch926]

@@ingeniouswild you're wrong on one nuance: the style is ultimately how a human being has observed what they want to recreate, filtered by their subjectivity. AI literally just takes what it's told to, mixes it and spits out a result.

[@CRT_sRGB]

You know, the worst part is the short-term uncertainty. I am interested in making online comics. Seeing the insane pace of AI art development has made me consider forgoing drawing by hand. The problem is, this AI thing is going to hit the webcomics world like a freight train. It is already a difficult market to break into and stay afloat in, and soon, there will almost certainly be an upheaval.

[@jasonchiu272]

A.I. literally takes "I'm about to end this man's whole career" to a whole new level.

[@duskfallmusic]

Yet, hear me out - AI can't really take artists job's away - because that would be an illegal copyright issue in itself LOL. Artists who use these platforms who understand who's art created their work are ENTIRELY aware you can't just ... take greg rutowski's job - or Artgerm, or even Corridor Crew's - these sites are entirely machine based, and don't take creativity in to account

[@feffy380]

It's infinitely more powerful if you can give it a rough sketch to redraw, rather than having to invent an image from scratch. Like photoshop, it lets the average person make something okay, but lets artists reach a whole other level

[@duskfallmusic]

@@feffy380 It's scarier when you do that, trust me i've used my own art myself to do this and it's recreated soemone else's art instead LOL

[@Pneumanon]

@@duskfallmusic It absolutely can take artists' jobs away. It's not about one specific artist or another, it's about the market forces that will come into play thanks to this technology. In brief- if everyone can create Greg Rutkowski level artwork, the price for that level of artwork goes waaaaaay down, effectively to zero or close enough to it. In the process, many many artists will lose the ability to charge reasonable rates for their work and their jobs will in effect be "taken away". There is a _lot_ of historical precedent for this, over a 200+ year time period. The next decade will be very difficult for illustrators.

[@0xBADFECE5]

"I'm about to end this career's whole career"

[@codyanderson4132]

This is legit amazing and terrifying. Honestly a little worried about job security.

[@lauris5275]

Yeah, here I am learning frontend. Soon will start to apply as beginner/junior. But damn...

[@mcreeper3658]

U watched cyberpunk edgerunners?

[@Justinhomii]

That’s why you work a real boy job

[@user-gz5ez1vo4g]

@@Justinhomii AI is coming for all jobs my friend

[@不要問-n2p]

There should be a law to protect real artists, or else we just have to wait for capitalism to destroy humanity even further.

[@rubenlo6221]

Nikos talk at the end is that of a true artist for sure. Respect others work and let people know of them and create and inspire your own.

[@a.w_.]

@Soinas Doyi the answer is simple: they won’t.

[@chynaanderson494]

​@Soinas Doyi Because there's always a market for handmade crafts or "the real deal." These days pretty much anything can be faked. Beauty can be faked with surgery, pictures can be faked with Photoshop, and the environment can be faked with CGI. But people will always appreciate more what they know is real or created by a human.

[@davethestave3]

I just felt a disturbance in the air, as though millions of artists shuddered in fear all at once.

[@Zaire82]

It still needs reference, so I think we're good for now. _For now....._

[@crepooscul]

Ngl, hearing people thinking that what drives artists to draw is shit like this is cringe . Artists won't stop drawing

[@mattisanimation2373]

@@crepooscul artists drawing isnt the issue, is whether or not they will still be paid to draw when a machine can do it just as well and 100× faster

[@sabelch]

I suspect it will simply added to the toolbox of artist tools to be used as leverage. For instance, you could fine-tune the AI using like they did in this video but fine-tune it on your collection of digital art and then tell the AI to riff off that to create more images in your own style.

[@Ayoul]

@@mattisanimation2373 That's the thing, ML can't make up a new art style or give you a specific thing as well and it's full of ugly/uncanny imperfections. ML isn't good at giving you exactly what you want. A decent concept artist will make something good looking first try and can understand complicated prompts. Maybe some day ML will reach that point, but we're still a ways off IMO.

[@Unpluggedcables]

The badassery of Sam's face in those shots is unmatched

[@kshitijtiwari2285]

Yeah, his forehead had abs!!

[@khangressman9496]

You cannot imagine how happy it makes me feel the get a Two Minutes Paper episode and a Corridor Crew episode about the same AI released on the same day. What a time to be alive!

[@dromedda6810]

made me hold on to my papers

[@nancekievill]

You know what they say, "Just two more Corridor episodes down the line..."

[@KesleyBenedet]

Imagine how it's going to be two more papers down the line

[@stefanswiss3760]

Was I the only one who at first when he was speaking , saying his name (that I am about to butcher sorry) "hello I am kalogero Hellfahïr" , I thought it was an indian accent talking about technology? (I am no native speaker but how did it sound for native speakers?)

[@designthings001]

Squeeze your papers

[@Foxtrotopia]

What amazes me most is how sci-fi we thought this was a few years ago. The scene in I, Robot where Sunny draws his dream of him standing on the hill as a free robot was something that we imagined was so many years away

[@scintillam_dei]

The governments' level of technology is far ahead of the plebes'. They wil use advanced hologram technology plus the metaverse thing (not the facebook shit but the one that is a precursor to) to stage an alien invasion. Most of mankind is gullible neough to believe in aliens, and the propaganda has been beating the drums of belief for a long time. Hellywood is of the devil. Mankind is being manipulated like the blind mob it is.

[@ryanmarita-davis3339]

There are a lot of things in I, Robot that seemed like sci-fi that are quickly becoming reality, maybe most of them. The AI, the self driving cars, and human like robots are all basically at I, Robot levels

[@lukasuhlenkamp9850]

Its absolutely unfathomable how AI has gone from struggling to create a single human face, to reliably recreating an instantly recognizable likeness of a specific person.

[@surrealroad]

and in a specific style

[@krishmav]

Next up.. Video! It will soon be hard to distinguish between what's generated and what's real. Whole movies will be made with way. Guys sitting in a basement will do Hollywood level movies with their finger tips.

[@roteschwert]

Well initially Dall-E was purposely handicapped so that it can't generate real human faces

[@Hamuel]

They purposely made Dall-E unable to make faces

[@dryued6874]

@@roteschwert Which is why it got absolutely dunked on by Stable Diffusion. Can't stop the signal.

[@CartoonFinder]

If this grows more and more... I'll be out of the animation job before I even get started!

[@mr.sunflower3461]

same with me on 3d game assets creation. :(

[@shukrantpatil]

Become a real engineer 😎 ( Please please don’t create robots integrated with AI’s to replicate engineers )

[@gonkhead112]

I feel similarly about getting into programming, but there is glass half full version of this. One of things I've heard cartoonists on KZbin mention is that it's very difficult because of the amount of work and time that goes into it so you usually can only produce short animations, and not that many of them, which is hard to monetize. Future versions of this tech will probably make that process so much quicker that if you have the skill to create compelling content you can actually produce more than 2-5 minutes on a regular basis. I've been using gpt3 and copilot for coding projects and not only does it speed up the work, it also helps me do things I otherwise couldn't do right now without spending a lot of time learning. Just need to be careful not to overly rely on it, otherwise are you really learning anything if you tell the computer what you want to do and it just does it for you. Also if you don't know what it's doing, how can you tell it's doing a good job.

[@ordelian7795]

Damn Mexicans-. I mean AI taking your jobs!

[@qaztim11]

@@mr.sunflower3461 it will be a decade at least untill an AI can model, UV, texture, rig and pose a model in the exact precise way that games and 3D art demands. And even then removing humans from the actual production of art is one of the dumbest ideas ever. AI is a tool, individual artists with unique styles will still strive. Ai will help small teams produce more ambitious things, will it change the industry in a way? Definitely. But most people that are the loudest about AI art, won't have the know how or skillset to generate half decent usable images. The video makes it seem easy, but all of the training,iteration and people with artistic knowledge are using this as a part of their workflow not as the only tool, 9

[@SwordTune]

I'm a writer who learned/is learning digital painting to make my own covers and concept art. Yeah, this just blew a year of work away.

[@MrJamesC]

Don't stop learning it!

[@samitchminerva7671]

@@MrJamesC if he want to stop he didnt wanted to actually learn art

[@NelemNaru]

@@MrJamesC Sounds like sunk cost fallacy. Why continue learning art instead of spending that time and energy honing their writing skill and output?

[@NihongoWakannai]

At least it was only one year

[@Shoop400]

@@NelemNaru Perhaps because understanding more than one medium can help you understand how to apply different principles to both. Then there's the matter of being able to make graphic novels or webcomics. Being able to do both is really helpful.

[@kanarokan6060]

This is so cool, but as a huge art fan who follows alot of artists, i can also see the danger of it. The ways it can be used to effect artists jobs really scares me.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

As someone who has been playing with the AI art gens since the first day the public could get access, I've become aware of a lot more artists and their projects than I ever was before. Trying to find styles to reference in order to create unique combinations (rather than just cranking out Greg Rutkowski and Artgerm portraits like every n00b does at first) forces you to explore a lot of artists and their work, meaning that you end up finding cool projects to follow that you didn't even know existed. Also, someone who (1) has artistic vision and purpose, (2) knows how to use artistic knowledge to craft prompts more effectively, and (3) takes the time to learn the subtleties and nuances of the tools is going to have an advantage over randos with none of the above for a while at least. AI art is cool and can be super impressive but it's not push-button vision-realization yet. It's just a tool. If the artists you like either (a) make art good enough to stand out from the rest of the field regardless or (b) incorporate AI into their process to enhance what they're doing, they're probably going to be fine. If, however, they stand on their lawn and shake their fists at technology before retreating back into their caves to sulk about all the dues they've paid being somehow negated and the "kids today" ruining their gatekeeping by making creativity more accessible, then, yeah, they might fall behind. Think about it this way: Niko created some cool fan art of Sam in various styles. It looked super cool. But if that's ALL he did, ever, how long would you follow his work? The art looks great but you still need good ideas driving it to keep it interesting. I mean, I can tell you from experience, if you see someone create a portrait of a character in the style of Greg Rutkowski and/or Artgerm, it looks awesome the first handful of times. If you see that person crank out a thousand portraits of characters in the style of Greg Rutkowski and/or Artgerm, you don't care anymore. There's more to art than just how it looks. Also, let's say an artist creates a web comic. They've been working on it for years, building up a small following, etc. If some dude with ideas but no hand-eye coordination can use AI to create a web comic that outperforms the first guy's because it's more interesting/funny/whatever to people, then how good was that first guy's web comic in the first place? The people who should be sweating the most at the moment are graphic designers, tbh. If a company can generate thousands of logo ideas in a couple of hours, then why pay some goober to come up with a handful of ideas in a week? For now, the answer is "because that goober can make specific changes instead of rolling the dice each time" and "that goober can actually implement your new art in printable/postable resolutions, formats, and whatnot instead of just saying "hey, here's a .png... good luck!" That'll change sooner rather than later though so graphic designers need to be figuring out their "unique selling proposition" asap. In any event, all jobs get replaced by tech eventually. The world is continually moving. Just ask the Pony Express riders. Or phone operators. Or, soon, truck/taxi/rideshare drivers, factory workers, food service workers, call-center workers, receptionists, article writers, coal miners, etc, etc, etc.

[@Yaser-ih2cx]

@@johnplaysgames3120 let's not reduce the valid concerns artists have to ai art to "old people shaking their fists at technology". The fact of the matter is that the datasets used for these programs are from real working artists who did not give their consent to be used to improve the AI let alone get paid for their contribution to it. You can do a quick google search and find artists like Greg Rutkowski had no idea about AI art and only found out recently that his art was included in the dataset. Now that the AI has reached this stage of likeness, the creators have finally allowed for an opt-out option, but we've already reach at state where the AI has created similar enough art of the artists work that it can use archived images that it made itself as reference. Can you not see the obvious problem with this? As the program becomes more and more sophisticated through the millions of art it's generating, prompts it's users are crafting, images users are selecting and favoriting, they're gearing up with the purpose of complete replacement of artists. Going to the midjourney page for example and searching for the term "artist", you'll find 0 results. This is not a tool for artists like a digital tablet or pen, it's goal is to be the artist for companies with minimal oversight and intervention from artists. It wants to be the number one tool companies purchase to save them for paying the salaries of an entire team of artists and it's using working artists without their consent to do it.

[@zakirali8721]

relax. the artists have already started using A.I in their work and the plus point they already have as an artist . they can take it way further than nubes

[@Joshuavila_jpg]

Maybe the way philosophers no longer exist they way they did in Ancient Greece, artists will no longer exist in the future? Who knows !

[@soacker25]

@@Yaser-ih2cx 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯💥

[@thomasdye7503]

This would spice up any D&D session so hard!

[@glenn_danzig]

Oml yeah! Gonna try this out, generating areas, enemies, people and all that

[@Enderlad]

imagine an AI dungeon master, one that automatically takes everyones input and data and transforms it into a dynamic storyline complete with images and encounters

[@vanconojl]

@@Enderlad THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT!

[@nadiaplaysgames2550]

@@Enderlad That point you have a video game where you could go and do whatever you want

[@generalesdeath8157]

Oh fckk, why didn't we (me and friends) think of that, that's effing briliant ffs!! Thank goodness the comment section exists haha

[@MinhPham-xi5ne]

As an animator and illustrator, this is both awesome and absolutely terrifying. Not sure if I have all the words to properly articulate my thoughts and feelings on this other than that.

[@xtay2287]

You just have to get better, faster :d

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

@@xtay2287 those are very abstract words, kinda useless.

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

The only way to compete with ai is using it. Using any tool avaliable. Start learning about good plugins to improve your workflow, and trying to see how can you use ai in your process if anything to show that you can, that will give confidence for someone hiring you that you will not deliberately give them less quality work just for being a purist retrograde regarding your tools, and for you to play around with it of course.

[@wren7195]

Kinda makes one wonder at the gaps between classical greek and renaissance masters "dabbling" with marble. Maybe someone had access to a "higher power," and AI or "spirit" or gah *goes back to her spirits, brother Jack*

[@crepooscul]

As neither an animator or illustrator, this is disgusting and nothing more than a plagiarizing software that people try to desperately legitimize by anthropomorphizing it. It seriously feels like there is a push to make this so.

[@ruukus6426]

I love how when they see what character they are, they act like kids when their name pops up in a math problem

[@Ambar42]

That's oddly specific.^^ I never saw a kid getting all hyped by seeing their name in a math problem. xD

[@BensMiniToons]

@@Ambar42 I love math. Ben was used all the time. That may be why I loved math as a kid. Subliminally inspired. A centillion percent squared. XD

[@potatochan8985]

@@Ambar42 thats my class everytimes in math class, even during high school xD. maturity is non important option

[@Earth_Being]

what kids get hyped by maths bruh?!

[@vectoralphaSec]

@@Earth_Being me.

[@gaffgarion7049]

People say this will make artists obsolete, I'm thinking it will make photos and videos impossible to identify as real or fake. Evidence in court is about to be a lot harder to dismiss or verify.

[@artffan5413]

Underrated comment

[@exesidz]

I majored Illustration about 11 years ago. At the time, we thought creative work(art, music, etc) will be the last bastion against AI take over. It only took 11 years for AI to get good enough for commercial work...

[@aboringperson9069]

It'll be weird to me to see that the "last bastion" against automation isn't art. We still haven't automated retail or service jobs all that well, but we can apparently make sure that the hobbies of retail and service workers become way less of an income opportunity.

[@shukrantpatil]

11 years ? No , these companies started the real work only around 2 years ago buddy , this is just the beginning , we are witnessing a change as drastic as the one that occurred when computers were invented. Scientists are crazy.

[@lonefinch2127]

So much creative work, especially the likes of made-for-streaming shows, have become so formulaic, I doubt that any average viewer will be able to tell the difference between AI-written dialogue and human-written dialogue. As long as there is a famous actor in the series, it’ll come off as legitimate.

[@canned3880]

The last things humans have to themselves will be hate and greed

[@sqlevolicious]

11 years??? LOL! My dude, it's only been 2 years. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Artists are a dying breed.

[@marilynfrigault]

As an artist this is both amazing, and freaking terrifying all at the same time!

[@kierancreighton96]

Soul crushing

[@Sylfa]

Don't forget, when photography was invented artists felt threatened and thought it would be the end of painters. All it did was create a new field of art and a new form of artist. It certainly *will* cause a lot of things to change, but being an artist is more than just mechanical skills. One of the jobs of anyone with a field specific skill is to convert the illogical, often contradictory, demands they receive from customers and bosses and make something that gets to the core of what they want. Don't look at it as a competitor, but as a very clever tool, just like people without an artistic bone in their body couldn't pick up a camera and suddenly make award winning art, you won't see this suddenly make artists obsolete. Grab yourself a copy of Stable Diffusion and start trying to make it create art, then consider how you can use it in your own art, both to make things better and make things faster. The more you learn the tool the more you'll see how it isn't going to replace all artists, only the ones that insist on not learning new tools and instead choose to directly compete with what the tool can do in a non-artists hands.

[@marilynfrigault]

@@Sylfa don't really think that is the same as this. They are literally ripping off specific artists styles. I don't remember photography specifically targeting individual artists. This could replace illustration artists who have a hard time getting work to begin with. I know because I am an illustrator.

[@curtislewis8801]

This is super cool but I feel so bad for digital artists. This is only the first year. Imagine how crazy it will be 5 - 10 years from now

[@genericname1235]

I think it's hilarious. They were the same people who laughed at truck drivers and retail workers getting automated away and proclaimed how creativity could never be automated. Now that everyone has the tools to create great artworks they are the ones on the wrong side of the automation barrel.

[@Hhhh22222-w]

You're welcome, we software guys will continue to replace other jobs

[@madisonb8163]

I don't really see it as bad though, as a digital artist. I've used AI to help with inspiration, color combos and fantasy outfits (Midjourney's really good at making fantasy clothes), and just generally at making ideas that can be put into my art. I view it as moreso a new artist out of millions of others rather than one that can replace everybody. It still has its preferences when making art, or at least based on my experience with it, and you can still recognize its "art style" sometimes

[@hiakutzuaki5845]

@@genericname1235 But the really funny thing is that we're all going to be out of a job, truck drivers and artists alike. Now that's hilarious!

[@kirillzeoli2547]

@@genericname1235 who the fuck laughed at truck drivers and retail workers? Don't invent people to validate your opinions.

[@snaabras]

Greg Rutkowski was interviewed about AI art in an article on Artnet just a week or so before this video was released. He wasn't too fond of people using his name as a prompt. For sound reasons. I just hope this video didn't make things worse for Greg. He is a very skilled artist and deserves a lot of respect for his personal work. It is truly inspirational.

[@jonathanmain59]

The storyboarding applications of this are incredible

[@Jham3D]

Despite how hard I try to remain optimistic, it’s pretty stressful watching AI progress as a young 3D artist. I quite honestly can’t imagine life being worth living for me if the visual art industry is automated. It’s difficult not to get emotional about it because I'm so passionate about my career and one day, all the work I put in/experience I have could mean essentially nothing. Over the last few months I've had to seriously consider a career shift. Maybe there isn't much of a future anymore in this industry to provide for a family. And is it fair to take that risk if it puts the future of my small family in financial jeopardy? Additionally, artists are already constantly shamed for all their quirks but only accepted because their skills prove useful to many businesses who rely on their creative talent. I cant imagine how poorly artists will be treated by if their fine art skills served no monetary value. I've always been a bit different. Often, the only way I can freely express that and have others admire my humanity is through art. If AI is to replace all labor, I hope it goes fast enough to automate most manual labor before it forces those with creative jobs into factory sweat shops. I’d rather be f&@king dead than work an boring, awful job for decades just because society hasn’t figured out how to automate it yet. You can tell me to suck it up. Touché. I just don't see the point in living life that way to be honest. The only thing that keeps me optimistic is that I love what I do so much I shouldn’t really care if a robot can do it better than me. I do it because it brings me peace and calms my mind. It’s no secret, art is therapy for many artists. However, I'd be lying if I said I haven't been struggling to find purpose now. For now, I'm just going to continue making whatever I desire and work to build a supportive community. Handmade clothing and jewelry still exists despite much of the field being automated so that’s somewhat promising. So hopefully when all digital art can be automated, our society will find a way to value and support digital artists. I’m always cautious to publicly comment on the topic because it’s so emotionally charged, I’m afraid I’ll change my mind tomorrow. Nonetheless, this is how I often feel about it when my anxiety goes through the roof. It kind of feels like I watched my dream career fall apart in front of my eyes. I'm lost to say the least. Thank you for reading this far :)

[@MrJamesC]

I share your struggles, don't give up

[@CorridorCrew]

As someone who has been riding the wave of media’s technological progression for almost two decades, trust me when I say that these tools are only going to help you achieve your vision faster. You bring the voice. From asset packs to non-destructive digital editing, artists have been more equipped to create now than they ever have before. Learn the tools, stay current with the times, and remember that it’s your message that matters, not your technique. -Niko

[@OverJumpRally]

@@CorridorCrew I agree. Also the process of making art is more interesting than the art itself. With AI, there is no process. Not something we can relate to, at least.

[@DrTheRich]

Society will have to learn to spot the difference between mass produced and real human art.

[@xlrouge]

@@CorridorCrew 🙌❤️

[@waterbears9874]

I really hope this tech doesn’t kill art jobs, it’s good now but imagine where the tech will be in a decade or even just 5 years

[@KyanNezhad]

It will kill some, so artists will have to adapt

[@moinvegdani1289]

it's scary :(

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

sadly it will do some damage

[@MagicCardboardBox]

I can absolutely see concept artists being very screwed over

[@TayNewNerd]

Bro I'm more worried about music

[@khortman]

This makes finding actors perfect for certain roles a lot easier. Just type their name and the role you want them in, add in a few other people and tada - you got your test. Also, D&D sessions are going to get a lot more vivid.

[@A.P.0000]

Now combine this with Ai text generators to let an AI write the story and another AI draw it. That would be an interesting thing to do.

[@zaczane]

Combine them together and you have the beginnings of general AI…… Jk probably not, but it sounds spooky tho.

[@vladimirirkhin]

ngl, thought of using it along with ai dungeon

[@JimPekarek]

Already been done. Head over to aidungeon, it's fantastic

[@A.P.0000]

@@JimPekarek Interesting. Thanks for the tip.

[@A.P.0000]

@Norma Neumann Exactly. So that we can take out the human element out. What a beautiful future. I so much love it when technology makes me obsolete.

[@OverJumpRally]

As a digital artist, this is both exciting and depressing. But I believe that ultimately it would bring more attention to real artists and, more importantly, on their process. Overall, the inspiration, the technique, the idea, and how a piece of art came to life is far more interesting than the finished element itself.

[@amsrremix2239]

Honestly… I think coders are the new artist in some ways

[@Clay3613]

@@amsrremix2239 Coding sucks.

[@FnD4212]

If you can draw a hand, they might hire you for some tweaks.

[@spitgorge2021]

Aye. Consider it a tool for artists to use.

[@InitialAA]

@@spitgorge2021 how

[@Vampcinder]

I'm absolutely terrified for real artists because I can image this being just too insane a few years down the line, but at the same time I just can't help but be utterly amazed by this.

[@danielawesome36]

Well, with AI, it's inherently impossible to get 100% control unless it's paired with a digital art application, so...

[@MikePhantom]

you think the corridor crew cares? they shilled nfts and other stuff that is not good either before

[@MikePhantom]

@@danielawesome36 impossible for now

[@danielawesome36]

@@MikePhantom Unless the AI can read your mind(the thoughts. Not your brain-the organ-mind you) and know exactly what you want, it's not possible to have _100%_ control. You can get probably get to 99.99-something percent, but not 100. The brain-mind connection is much more complex and weird than we ever thought.

[@karenrobertsdottir4101]

@@danielawesome36 That's what compositing + img2img is for.

[@blaskotron]

The next phase it's going to be making full animated movies, and doing the voices for the characters, and writing the lines

[@mikepasatieri502]

Or as the audience enters the movie theater eveyone has their picture taken/voice captured and the AI adds the audience into the movie, even the main characters of the movie are replaced with audience members. Imagine going to Iron Man 2 and seeing yourself as Tony Stark.

[@tillholder2400]

Perfect! So we finally skipped the fun part of making art and can solely consume. :)

[@davidfernandoalavamaya3176]

@@MariOmor1 that would fuck people minds

[@krsmanjovanovic8607]

I am going to kill m y se lf in public as my definitive art piece and act of rebelion, lets see if AI can replicate THAT, fu c k you society

[@femiairboy94]

@@tillholder2400 yes… exactly.

[@DimosasQuest]

As someone who has done professional concept art, this shit scares the crap out of me. But it can also be a nice tool to generate loads of ideas in my own style so i can speed up the work, and focus on the painting and composition.

[@gosunflower]

People say "speed up the work", but would you find your career/life's passion enjoyable if all you're doing it fixing AI-generated hands and making minor adjustments to 99% completed artworks?

[@shadowsketch926]

@@gosunflower in essence, it depends, most artists use references to complete get concepts out anyway. the real bottomline of implementation comes down to the individual view on the matter. but nobody has time for that, so if this can cut corners you can bet your ass some slimy board directors will want this instead of human work.

[@tinaandro1178]

@@shadowsketch926 yeah but this is a copyright nightmare from my limited understanding so while I understand using this as a reference I don't see how it'll be used for more than that. For example what happens when the AI spits out something really similar with the work of another artist and they missed it and get sued? Another thing is that in regards of copyright there was a"Monkey selfie" fiasco and the courts decided animals cannot legally hold copyrights so in this case is this a public domain or not? It's a headache for the slimy board directors that are probably salivating atm :)))

[@mk-ul5tv]

@@tinaandro1178 well, about the first thing, right now you can paint something in the style of any famous painter out there, and they can't do shit about it since it was your own work, at worst, they could try and make a case against you if you made something way too similar, however (using the solid snake style as example) if the character ain't the same, and it's just the style, there's really nothing you can do

[@MrJamesC]

@@mk-ul5tv They can do something because style needs to be learned and for that you need to use data that is copyrighted. So yes - in some sense the final picture will be based on information the AI programmers had no right to use in the first place.

[@danishkaushik4388]

As a digital artist from a 3rd world country trying to make my way up the ladder this genuinely makes me scared

[@NeoShameMan]

Don't climb the ladder then, become the new local Disney or whatever target you aspire to be. I'm too from third world, this is an opportunity to have a studio without the cost, to tell story people won't pay me to realize, for people who want to hear it.

[@SinisterAnimationS]

Don’t fear the technology use it to your benefit use it in your own at work

[@robertwyatt3912]

Maybe abolish capitalism then.

[@shukrantpatil]

@@robertwyatt3912 don't have time for that.

[@sqlevolicious]

Should have spent that student loan on learning STEM, kiddo.

[@gregtestagent]

Storyboard artists, police sketch artists, really any artist should be worried.

[@vatop1304]

someone needs to run the ai and do it correctly.

[@yogiedash5151]

honestly i am scared, I am a 2d/3d animation student finding this out freak me out a bit on if i will be able to have a job or retain it. I have a feel for the others as well, the concept artists, character designers, storyboard artist ect. When spend thousands on degrees and diplomas and years on the craft to develop our own style to make living or a name for our selves . What about us , those who haven't made it or have a job yet whos work can be taking within minutes by taking 10 of our images and never needed us again to replicate our style or artwork which took us years to master. I fear for students studying right now who taken it all to leap into art as a career and now its uncertain. I see alot of youtubers and artists especially artist youtubers who made it big talk about how this revolutionary or joke about it in a funnier manner I mean come on man it's my future job, or maybe it isn't , all I have is a pencil, pen, rubber and paper, my entire life that is my solace, epically when my dad died take that away from i have nothing and lose my purpose. Kind of not so funny or click for views when you take away another persons purpose as there path be it concept or background or animator. That's all i am saying just freaking me the hell out if i have a purpose or career for the future.

[@spiderjerusalem8505]

It's pretty sad indeed

[@antmass3]

Read The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford, and you want to get extra scared.

[@zdenekburian1366]

you should imagine yourself inside a revolutionary path, where the capitalistic system based on exploiting of labour transforms in an advanced communist system without wage work, money, market, where the means of production are public and people work 3-4 hours a week, enjoing a peaceful life without competition, crisis and wars; this is orders of magnitude better than the life you imagined before, struggling to make your family survive in an hyper-competitive industrial jungle of wolves. Only problem is that revolution will come with violence by the counter revolutionary ruling classes to make you remain a slave and prooduce capitalistic surplus value. So lets prepare for the battle.

[@rizzgod-wj6ty]

Maybe commit deathpacito

[@tylerjames805]

@@bloedblarre Yeah develop your own style just so some talentless tech bro can take it and scam people with it

[@Kjleed13]

And here I thought the arts would be the last job ai will take.

[@DevVaughn]

Same. I was so wrong....

[@hayothegunosaurus]

nah, it will only take the jobs of those who can't adapt

[@ArvelleWhitaker]

lol just got laid off friday "downsizing"

[@greendsnow]

You are not wrong. The arts WERE the last job ai WOULD take. There's not much left, really.

[@supaflykai]

@@hayothegunosaurus no, it will take all but those few at the top who are controlling the art direction. There will be little need for a dozen concept artists when a single person can do 10x the amount of work in half the time

[@Brax_animation]

This must be how Encyclopedia publishers felt when the rise of the Internet/Search Engines started

[@brei.z]

yeah, it's crazy! I keep hearing about this stuff geting better every day.. soo cool.. does seem like the next step would be video... imagine if you can just make a show\movie without a camera.. just tell a computer a story... Or if it could just take in a book and adapt it... with enough stock footage and stuff.. doesn't seem like too much of a stretch...Computer re-release of Final Got season as even Ai didn't like it ;)

[@fraserd5004]

This is ... incredible and terrifying in equal parts. Given how easy this is to use I can really see people like myself (with a bit of technical savvy but no artistic talent) using it to create lots of stuff. Album art, stupid flyers for gig posters, invites for parties etc. In the hands of amazing artists I can't even imagine what will be possible. What I do worry about is those artists that rely on one off jobs, small contracts, portraits, pet portraits etc, as this AI can churn out acceptible art essentially for free. I think the industry is going to change, for sure. Would love to know what professional artists are thinking just now.

[@con4581]

Personally as an illustrator I see AI art as a tool to be utilised. I've already used it for starting commissions and developing concepts - it really is a fantastic development in our medium, because guess what - I don't wanna take hours drawing a background either haha! In the hands of us artists it's far more valuable than in the hands of anyone else. gonna make my general turnover nearly double.

[@ajankytoucan]

You can also hire artists for some of that. You'll get something way more unique, and you support one of your fellow humans.

[@JanPospisilArt]

This is exactly correct. Smaller commissions and freelance jobs will disappear. Getting into the big leagues that will still pay human artists will be even more difficult.

[@opal9583]

@@con4581 no one is going to need you to do stuff though. If the ai gets too good it'll just do what you're doing

[@TheRealAlpha2]

As an artist, the way I see it is the people looking for AI art weren't really looking for something original anyway, they either cant afford what an original artist can bring when they try their best. AI art has a lot of unintentional Jank to it that people are going to start picking up on, and become unsatisfied with. At least with a live artist you can change/invent your style as needed, develop new methods of rendering things, while AI still needs to copy someone's style. Better yet, you as an artist can take the stuff AI spits out and use it as a template to make your own your own skill better in less time. Not great with light and shadow? Ask an AI to show you exact reference of what the lighting should look like in a given situation rather than hunting through Google image search, and then do it in your own style rather than spending hours noodling your work trying to figure out what's wrong with it. I don't think we should fear anything but the complacency the tech could create.

[@Ryu62Alpha]

Fact is, this is a very important conversation that we all need to have about art. Is art just an end product, or is art also something we do? The AI generators seem to eliminate a lot of the "doing" in the name of effeciency, but the art process and exploration is a large part what makes it kind of unique. Humans don't "need" art like food and shelter, but we seem to have always found a need to do it. Express a side of ourselves in a visual language that is both an act and a thing to be observed. The library analogy at the end is interesting, I can definitely see it being used that way if we can all get on board with it as a tool rather than a replacement. It's unforunate right now because a lot of new "artists" are just taking the image that gets spit out, and running with it. Worse, it's like they walked into the library, took bits of everyone else's work, claimed it to be theirs, and told everyone to "get good". I hope that changes, but right now, an AI artist looks like someone who just ordered off of uber eats and is claiming to be a chef.

[@Uncreeperble]

No AI doesn't steal art, it learns from it, just how humans learn. You probably draw stick men with circle heads, that's you learning from someone else's style, I was taught to draw triangle heads, doesn't mean I stole it I learnt. I am all for ai

[@inkman002]

@@Uncreeperble Ai most definitely steals the art. The artist they're copying never consented to having their style copied. You're comparing learning fundamentals of art to finished designs. Once you learn fundamentals youre able to make it your own. AI doesn't do that.

[@Uncreeperble]

@@inkman002 so if replicating the styles is considered stealing does that mean no-one can paint in the starry night style and take credit? I'm all up for a genuine chill discussion btw

[@lefudj4236]

@@Uncreeperble i think this is precisely where the line is drawn. Just like AI we use what we see and absorb stuff to create. However, the fundamental difference is that AI literally takes pixel of different works to create a new one. If someone was shown taking artworks and mixing them up trust me he would get obliterated if the owners found out. The difference is if he’s doing it himself, then it’s HIS. You can a little deeper, but what if i tried to make a pixel perfect reproduction of an artwork of that specific artist ? Well if he were to find out, he’d ask to be credited probably, or ask for me to take it down. Artists generally ask nothing more than credit. AI « artists » have a tendency to completely overlook the point of credit. But then, i can understand why they would also be pissed that their work is being fed into a machine that basically pumps out parts of their work to people who have not went through 1% of his learning process. Then it gets kinda personal like « yeah i want it to be as hard as it was for me » but i’m changing topic right now. It’s honestly a tough debate and i (a beginner/amateur artist) can’t exactly get my head around what bothers me with AI art. The same way digital painting came in and said « oh yeah you can do everything now no need for tools or anything, the machine has it for you », AI offers a brand new type of support to lean on and i think it’s an extremely powerful source of inspiration and a very useful tool. So you start wondering « if i generate art, then paint 50% of it myself, is it mine ? ». Well ask yourself this with other arts. If you take half a book and write the other half, it’s not your book. If you took half a movie and record the other half, it’s not your movie. I wish i could conclude with something but i can’t, i literally said everything i had on my mind, sorry for the long comment

[@Uncreeperble]

@@lefudj4236 I love seeing other people's views on things, and this makes so much sense, so as artists you see the value in the work and skill and time it took to make the art, not entirely the finished piece🤔. With the 50 50 I would say it would be cooperative but with AI art the human still has to say what to make, so they have some credit but I get what you mean, and I don't see any solution to is AI art, art because it cannot truely create something new as we can 🥲. Eventually we will have AI people undoubtedly and we will have to decide on the line of many other things. Thanks, I'm doing AI Comp. sci. In uni. So I just like others perceptions and ideas on how real it is considered

[@pluviosity]

I get real anxious when Novel AI with near perfect creativity was launched, I can't imagine how the freelancer artists would feel. When it comes to small to medium commissions, the clients wouldn't give two shits about moral or whether the style is original enough.

[@ricardofernandosotomayordo9685]

Yeah it pretty much killef my career on the spot Wtvr theres Always people hiring at walmart

[@Dragons_Armory]

Well they NEVER cared, and they won't with this either unfortunately, worked in the concept artist industry for 12+ years and by the time the commission get to you you are already essentially there to realize whatever they wanted. It's a completely top down relationship with little wiggle room. Even less for the luxury of "morals" you might raise a fuss and they can- at best play pretend to give a shit, which they still don't or just never call you back and go behind your back and find a replacement without telling you and leave you hanging. reciprocal

[@WaniZame]

The Metal Gear one was beyond awesome

[@pepsico815]

All AI models have significantly improved over the past year, such as speech recognition, data compression, etc. It's accelerating scary fast. Just 1 year ago this wasn't even possible

[@Danuxsy]

@@pepsico815 next year they will be able to generate video too, imagine the pornography we could create with these models omg!

[@vectornine]

I thought something this good would be a few years out at least but damn the progress has been fast

[@mattt023]

This is going to be an absolute disaster in copyright law in the not so distant future.

[@Roxxyie]

Yeah lmao, the creators of stable diffusion even said that it was illegal themselves

[@gondoravalon7540]

@@Roxxyie Where?

[@sarazkekule6201]

@@gondoravalon7540 on earth 🌎 for sure

[@mildsoup8978]

Copyright hurts as much as it helps, maybe more, it may be time to move past it.

[@mrSleepyguy1]

@gondoravalon7540 this isnt exactly what the person stated but from what I've heard (and admittedly i dont quite know the details) but these companies paid other companies to collect the data in order to avoid legal loopholes regarding research purposes.

[@mightbefluffy1486]

I have a feeling this is going to start factoring into concept art workflow

[@kareltjen100]

These programs are dream machines, they should absolutely be used to come up with new original concepts.

[@manuelromero2339]

They already have. Animation studios have started laying off a lot of their concept artists for the Dall.E software recently. Source: a friend of a friend in the industry. Definitely alarming.

[@crashkg]

It already has. 2 directors I work with are using Dalle 2 for their pitch decks. Much easier than trying to find the right image in a haystack.

[@PCIexplorer]

That doesn't sound unreasonable

[@calleway66]

I can honestly see this as a helpful tool in concept design, you could sit all day trying to dream up a new creature for say a video game your working on or input your prompts and get thousands AI generated idea and something there could be new and interesting and then you can build off it. Kinda like cutting out the middle man for creating new ideas. Question is will these concepts lack the creative soul that human directed ideas have?

[@saurabhdhamnaskar]

The end message is really really thoughtful and makes one think, A.I. can do a lot of stuff these days and we need to be even more aware and vigilant. Give credits to the original artists as always, after all AI just replicates what a human has already done without these original gods of art AI would not be able to create such things.

[@captain4318]

To be completely fair, even artists replicate what other humans have already done. AI doesn't put a piece of this picture and a part of that painting together, it creates new things, based on the information it gathers from images. Much like how we as artists make new things, but are also "tainted" with our knowledge of the world and other works. I don't even think there is such a thing as being able to credit anything for an AI promt, as it's just a result out of a huge library of millions/billions of data points.

[@bilderzucht]

@@captain4318 there is a difference, in (carefully) choosing, which elements you want to incorporate into your own style or having an AI randomly pick. I think, the ethical problem is, that the artists where never asked to be part of creating this tool.

[@captain4318]

@@bilderzucht sure, but I can promise you that workers in any field haven't been asked if they wanted machines to take over/lighten their workload. If that were to be done for any possible advancement we would still be in the middle ages.

[@saurabhdhamnaskar]

@@captain4318 I do agree with your views, but what probably Nico(and myself) meant is, If someone does create an AI Generated image of something using a famous artists style THEN the OG artist should be credited, and it should also be mentioned that it is an AI Generated image, because you never know who might use it for what purpose. With great power comes great responsibility. And in these days of faking everything, being aware of whats real is of utmost importance

[@LordJagd]

I think you overestimate how much people actually care about copyright, and how possible it is for people to take down copies of their own art, especially when they’re not a major corporation. A company in China could make a game and use AI to copy an American artist style, and there’s really nothing the American could even do about it

[@dakumasuta1303]

Bruh, we artist are already forever unemployed this just puts salt on the wound

[@swancrunch]

adding an insult to extinction

[@migueld8970]

Join the club - music producer

[@robooz]

@@migueld8970 The day AI can successfully make good music and becomes mainstream is the day I die

[@dibbidydoo4318]

@@robooz famous last words of a short lived life.

[@Scripture-Man]

This stuff is amazing, like magic, but I find it truly scary in many ways. Scary in terms of believing what you're seeing, where AI is heading, how fast things are changing, possibility for misuse, ethics, copyright, and even just the implications for my own career in graphics. So I find it comforting that you guys are covering this freaky stuff because you feel like friends!

[@cervichthyoquine]

Wow, it is unbelievable how realistic these are, insanely high fidelity

[@mogrenscones9406]

I feel like technology like this could become an amazing resource for reference art. While its not perfect, it can definitely help cut down time searching for something super specific or give a solid jumping off point

[@krunkle5136]

Yeah, though in its current state it gets a lot of things wrong. You're still going to get better results with studying real life objects and models.

[@FreakStyler]

@@krunkle5136 Or wait another month for the next generation of AI art tools to come out

[@elliottpm5909]

Exactly what I'm using it for, simply reference.

[@krunkle5136]

@@FreakStyler hell yeah. Soo it'll take inputs like character art, background info, 3d posing interface etc.

[@dvoremay6683]

My friend would lose her mind if she could use this for references.

[@OfficialMaxBox]

I still love that Corridor's TF2 history still crops up once in a while. 3:04 with the Heavy laugh lol

[@BrandochGarage]

Pure craziness! As an artist, it's pretty sad and interesting at the same time.

[@Vyable__]

Art is done by a human. There are no two ways about it. Anything else is just algorithms and programming doing what it’s supposed to to generate what it’s told to. It makes a cool image sure, but it is not art. The value, appreciation and fascination in art is the fact it came from another human who devoted their hand at making something that many people can’t and are good at it. Years of practice and hours upon hours of work to make a piece that people can look at and see something new every time they do and take in every detail. There is none of that with a computer and knowing the image you get is from some words anyone can type and a press of a button. For that reason ai will never be as impressive or be considered the “best artist” or art period, because at the end of the day, it took no talent, skill or practice. The very definition of art is as follows, “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” There is no substitute for human hands in the field of art.

[@japie8466]

@@Vyable__ Is it relevant if you as the audience can't see the difference? F.e. the profession of a blacksmith became obsolete with CNC milling and welding robots. Nowadays there are only a handful of blacksmiths. I like to draw, but the skill feels irrelevant and meaningless after seeing this.

[@seangalloway5734]

@@japie8466 Just draw because you like to draw. It doesn't have to have meaning in terms of popularity or demand by people. Many Artists draw or create because they love to do it. Some may be fortunate enough to make a career out of it, but at the end of the day, they do art for themselves, and they post it because they're happy with it or keep it in their library for only themselves to appreciate. You give it meaning, not the audience. If they appreciate it, cool. If they hate it, then that's just how it is. You see many Artists say the same thing all the time "create because you want to or love to" cause that what expression is, even if it's just a hobby. Take Scott Sava or the Corridor Crew as examples. They do what they do because it started with them being passionate about their field of creating art. They share their experiences and inspire others to create, even if it's just for yourself.

[@soacker25]

Watching your demise

[@scintillam_dei]

@@Vyable__ No, it's art. Way more art than modern fart I mean modern art.

[@TheNeininn]

This needs to become a weekly thing

[@weakw1ll]

Ight i guess im down

[@AndradeFacu]

Yessss

[@HassyKH]

I feel like this is going to be an insane tool for 3D artists to gather so many references but also very terrifying on how it can be abused in the creepy and dangerous way to attack people.

[@purplecat4977]

Yeah, people have so many pictures of themselves just... out there these days. There is absolutely going to be an underground (or not so underground) rule 34 scene cropping up.

[@notabanana2914]

Photoshop has been around for decades, all this does is make it easier/faster.

[@Radonatos]

@@notabanana2914 I tend to agree, also face replacements in videos (deepfake) are getting better every day - the technology is already there, and is slowly becoming available to everyone. The important thing, imo, is to spread the knowledge and awareness that a picture or video can be totally artificial, regardless of how realistic it appears, and is no proof.

[@tylersmash7134]

Well can't do anything about it now

[@eladbari]

Whaddya mean it'll be useful for 3D artists? A.I will replace them too.

[@ButterJaffa]

This time next year… the AI Artwork will be INSANE, like only a few months ago we had terrible looking images and NOW THIS! 😳

[@zaptronic]

This time next MONTH. Or Week. Or tomorrow.....

[@dyslexicstoner2408]

10 years ago I always thought about futuristic stuff like this and the fact it's actually happening so fast is crazy, this century will be the most insane century of the human race if we're going at this pace.

[@robertfox4114]

@@dyslexicstoner2408 Will this century have a crisis bigger than the previous century's biggest crisis,what do you think?

[@athenasblueprint]

Really loved this one! Such a great idea to involve the whole crew in a story and show each of their reactions. Keep it up guys wishing you all the best going forward 🙏

[@jaidenlukecreates456]

As an artist this makes me kinda sad. What takes me 10 hours to paint can now be made by a computer in 10 seconds. This is really cool though and I think it will lead to a lot of cool things in the future!

[@karenrobertsdottir4101]

How long would it take you to paint "A red box on a blue box"? Now try to get Stable Diffusion to generate it ;)

[@LordJagd]

How can this lead to anything good? In about five years all storyboard artist, concept artist, background artist, etc. can be replaced by one person typing in prompts.

[@feffy380]

Play around with the AI yourself for a bit. It's not magic and the limitations become obvious when you realize how difficult it is to get the exact composition you want with just a text prompt. A competent artist can make much more effective use of this because they can sketch things out and block in colors to guide the final output vs having the AI create an image from just the text prompt

[@zaczane]

@@LordJagd you sound like Literally anyone in history who’s had their job replaced with innovation. Yeah it “sounds scary”, and “we don’t know how this will affect us”. But that by no means proves it’s a bad thing, that can’t lead to anything good.

[@Pneumanon]

@@zaczane What good will it lead to? And good for who?

[@Schmaahn]

This, for me, is the epitome of "everything goes faster and faster these days".

[@jwanikpo]

efficiency just for efficiency's sake, like companies werent already exploiting artists to work faster and faster, with no regard of the end result

[@Cyranek]

we just need to grow extra fingers to catch up with ai and everything will be perfect

[@Alleroc]

This seems epic for storyboarding. I love it. Also!! Justice for Wren, we need to see him get some AI treatment!

[@j.r.cruzaguirre2734]

This is fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Like watching a train hit a semi trailer.

Oh wow. My mind is blown by the technology, but I’m very scared for what this means for artists. I’m not a visual artist but I’m a songwriter and an audio engineer, and this makes me extremely nervous. I might need to emotionally prepare myself for this.

[@chaosmonkey1595]

You should. It's coming for all of us, sooner or later. Artists thought they would be last, but nope, their turn now.

[@GS-tk1hk]

I'm doing some music production in my spare time but I've started feeling a bit discouraged lately. IF I were to get any kind of following, by the time it's large enough for me to make music full-time we would already have AI generated music. I think the days of "music artists" are numbered. One decade from now we will probably have some kind of music service like Spotify, but where every song is AI-generated according to your taste and the concept of an artist doesn't exist.

[@researchandbuild1751]

@@GS-tk1hk Who's to say that a lot of pop music isn't already A.I. generated? Much of it follows a basic structure, and music is down to almost a science for pop songs, they know what will be catchy and what won't. I have no doubt you could train an A.I. on pop music and it could generate and entirely new song that would be a hit.

[@nyghl]

@@GS-tk1hk You know what, you shouldn't let it go buddy. Most of the times, a success of a music isn't about "Oh, I love and want to feel it inside because it was made by X!!!!!". If a music is good, it will be good regardless of the author. Even someone wasn't educated at music, they can make a good music with those tools in the future. And if you educated yourself along those years on music, you would do even better than them with those tools because you know how to make a music yourself. This is as simple as that. You will know when a note is off so you can edit it, you will know what some kind of flow will need a change so you can either tell the tool to change it or directly change it yourself. Sometimes we should look things from either a fun perspective or a product perspective. If you are having fun with it, you can just pursue it if you are able to in your personal life. If tools will be adding +90 skill points to music making, then you will have +10, +20 or even +50 points more than a normal human being.

[@MLDeS100]

Look up the Jiminy hendrix ai song. All it needs is a lyricist, otherwise it can write music already

[@senshi_dev_art]

As an artist that loves doing art, i am scared shitless on this taking over so much, we know for a fact new laws and rules need to be implemented, as we already have cases of people using these AI to win Art contests, i'll definately use this type of programs to get a base image and idea to work with, but for making finished art? I don't really want that.

[@Asturev]

use AI to take ideas? oh please dont cope with it. quit the art world its a sinking ship

[@TheLinposterIsSus]

Don’t worry. Porn is the one thing this AI can’t do. Once it can however…all those corrupt weirdo twitter artists…every issue with that. Gone.

[@geraldtoaster8541]

@@Asturev automation is coming for almost everything

[@FiveJungYetNoSmite]

@@TheLinposterIsSus What? There are already thousands of porn images made by stable diffusion. Recently, Reddit went ahead and banned all AI porn subreddits.

[@thebcwonder4850]

@@FiveJungYetNoSmite NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@AaronRHale]

I’m glad Niko touched on the implications on the copyright side of things toward the end. The first thing I thought when seeing all these images in the same art style was “How would affect the artist whose style is being emulated?” I’m not sure how it should be handled, but I’d personally be inclined to reach out to the artist and ask them for permission and/or to buy the rights for publicly using an AI generated image with credit to the artist for their art style and a disclaimer that the piece was AI generated. It’s essentially a cheaper version of a commissioned artwork, so a licence fee like that would be an interesting thing for the artists to consider. Incredibly hard to police though, as you obviously didn’t actually create the final AI-generated artwork in question, so where does the artstyle end and the AI begin 🤔.

[@danilorodriguesart6588]

I can already see studios using A.I to help with screen plays and concept arts.... It's soo cool but scaring at same time.

[@KasiVids]

Concept artists are done at this point

[@Leostarintervention]

​@@KasiVids No, you still need concept artists to generate art. Art directors don't have time to do everything by themselves.

[@lachlanfisher5646]

For Uni we've been using AI art for concept art already for a film comp. Shits insane

[@wibblewobble1934]

Very scary, AI will be able to place well known people in situations they were never in, truth will be lost forever

[@GloomGaiGar]

@@KasiVids So these AIs have nothing to base off of? lol

[@MagicCardboardBox]

I kinda expect a lot of laws and stuff are gonna be implemented because of all this, especially around commercial use. It's gonna feck up quite a lot that currently exists in the industry

[@jaoziin1432]

yeah i also think that will be the case, probably will limit a lot of the range of this, since it technically uses copyrighted material to make something new.

[@Saplaboo]

I don’t think it will effect copyright as long as it’s different enough, of course if you do something straight up copyrighted it’s gonna be copyrighted but I don’t think borrowing other images to figure out what to do will lead to anything

[@joshuabudman9109]

SO many people will exploit this and try to make easy money selling counterfeits.

[@KQKQ23]

Yep, it’ll just take 50 years and countless lives ruined in the meantime for them to be made. That’s the speed of government my friend.

[@farty84]

@@joshuabudman9109 The amount of people I've seen passing ai art as their own is more than 0, sadly

[@donindiana8504]

This is insane for D&D! Generating illustrations in realtime. Game changer!

[@ed_iz_ed]

Imagine a game system where the story is constantly illustrated by the narration of the dm, crazy

[@manowa3395]

That is insane to think about

[@ultravioletcanary]

This video alone powered my dopamine supply for the entire week. THE STORY WAS AWESOME AND I WAS CRACKING UPP EVERY 5 SECONDS!!! THANKS FOR ALL THAT YALL DO!!!

[@marcsimonetti7357]

Thank you for your end message. I also have my name very often used as a prompt. Now, every single days, I have my name associated with pictures I haven't made, and most that don't I like at all , without any explanation . So basically it just floods my art with AI version of my art , which is a real pain.

[@gensoustudio4703]

I'm sorry to hear you're going through that friend, please keep creating amazing human works 🙏

[@KE-MONO]

The fact you can even use an artist's name as a prompt seems very questionable to me. It's kinda like taking another artist's work and tracing it, except now it's an AI taking an entire artstyle and elaborately making whatever you want with it... I don't like it at all and question how this can even be legal.

[@Asmodeus.q]

@@KE-MONO I really want some real good discussion between artists about referencing and A.I. because to me as a layman, is completely protected by parody laws right? how does artist even begin but with referencing everything they see, even subconsciously our brains reference things from other peoples ideas in writings or art etc

[@KE-MONO]

@@Asmodeus.q Even in the world of actual human artists, I'm pretty sure it's quite frowned upon to completely try and copy somebody else's style and publish it. When you tell an AI to generate an image in the exact style of a specific artist, it's even worse imo since at least later down the line it'll copy the style even better than actual humans would. But yes, artists definitely do and are even ENCOURAGED to use other artists' works for reference. It's just that you're supposed to also develop your own style by perhaps combining it with the styles of other artists or trying to alter it by yourself to be different in some ways. From what I've played around with AI, it gets really quite dangerously close to exactly the style you ask of it.

[@KE-MONO]

@@Asmodeus.q Also there's been cases of artists contacting the developers asking to have their work removed from the dataset, only to be met with no response, which is really worrying. Sounds to me like their work being used without their permission, which at least until this point sure wasn't allowed. For some reason the developers of these AI tools are allowed to just use all these images for training their AI without getting any permissions from artists beforehand.

[@kianlechner]

This channel is gold. Always showing the newest tech, and implementing it in a creative way. Love how relevant you guys have stayed. Feels like the channel grew with me as I’ve gotten older. Love you guys

[@Hallwo_333]

I need to see that little story as an actual movie or short film, you guys would kill it

[@carlycchapman]

Yes, I need it. If I had the money, I'd straight up donate for them to go to Scotland or England to film in actual castles there

[@lovelytime1440]

Laser tattoos, A.I. Design and A.I. Art will replace a lot of us 😮‍💨

[@AurelienCarnoy]

Like vinyl got replaced.

[@sodievox]

All of this AI needs data to learn from... it wouldn't have been possible without the artists whose style existed before it to feed the algorithm. All of you artists, never stop creating art and developing your style. Feed it, don't let it eat you alive.

[@roselame8387]

Don't feed it. Brutally slaughter the people who made it to prove and point and paint with their blood.

[@heypistolero]

So, just make the algorithm stronger? Nice try AI, but I'm moving on to pottery

[@minilabyrinth]

It already has enough data to endlessly generate art forever and have it be better/faster than 95% of artists

[@slayrix279]

@@heypistolero I’m gonna make a pottery ai now

[@heypistolero]

@@slayrix279 I said too much!

[@JMartinsATV]

Oh man you ended on such a poignant note. Here’s hoping humanity doesn’t screw itself over again in this case, and keeps honoring the artists that make us love life!

[@skierpage]

Everyone, go to the graduate exhibitions of local art colleges and buy real physical artworks made by human beings! A digital image on the screen is not the same as an object in physical space.

[@insanelytomato]

Most AI generators are already spitting on artists. How do you think they’re learning to get better? Where do you think these AI are getting the references to start ‘building’ an image? Hundreds of thousands of pieces of artwork are churned through these generators to help them ‘learn,’ but are the artists who created them get asked beforehand? Are they getting compensated or credited? This isn’t something that’s just going to have catastrophic effects in the future, it’s destroying artists TODAY.

[@DARamosYT]

Man, I'm blown away at how easy the ai generates images. Scary, I wonder how far fetched animations might be given they're just a series of images in a frame.

[@sn5301679]

It will be really usefull for planning a movies, games or even a book. Makes a make up, scene etc...

[@chanceneck8072]

I think this technology has the potential to give writers some new kick of inspiration. Honestly.

[@Enderlad]

Been using AI image generation since July and have written 80+ short stories inspired by the images so far! Hugely inspiring.

[@chanceneck8072]

@@Enderlad Wow, congrats!! Can I read some? My email should be available on my channel....

[@LordJagd]

Yeah, why draw from your own life experience and creativity when you can type into an AI and get some pics instead

[@Enderlad]

@@LordJagd mate, you can’t always draw from your life experience for writing lol… do you know how much as writers we draw from other novelists, movies, etc??? This is just another form of that. Only now I have my own copy-write free image to go along with my writing. Plan to use this tech to one day create a graphic novel.

[@chanceneck8072]

@@Enderlad Yes, that and often times I draw inspiration from dreams that I have. I wish I would have trained my writing skills when I was younger, I used to be pretty talented in school. But growing up, life chose a different path for me. But I've never lost my creativity and imagination. But it's pretty useless working on an assembly line, lol.... 🙈

[@Tuuvas]

I wonder what would happen if you go multiple layers deep with the example photos. For example, take real example photos of someone -> AI generate the same photo angles but with a specific theme -> then use those AI generated example photos for another set -> and so on

[@tomektomek9836]

eventually yes, i wonder when there will be AI blender projects, like a full ai generator models

[@Morcorco]

Soon you'll be able to make the whole comic book just by typing in the story and feeding AI some character sketches

[@TheRealAlpha2]

I think it's like photocopying or other lossy recreation the more you itereate over something that doesn't have perfect fidelity to weaker it becomes. It'd be like that game Gartic Phone, where someone draws an image and you have people try to animate each consecutive frame and it spins out of control as each person tries to interpret what came before.

[@chaosmonkey1595]

@@TheRealAlpha2 In practice with img2img (not exactly the same thing, but similar for this example) the opposite is often the case and the picture gets better with every iteration. Although loss of fidelity can definitely happen, but can be avoided with finetuning.

[@JacobGorny]

If nothing else, this offers great inspiration for storyboarding written stories and then being able to work with an illustrator who can have reference images, poses, etc. I think if you were a working artist who could digitize a lot of your own studies and works and then mash them up with actual people, you could have a very lucrative business essentially deepfaking portraiture that is your style and your designs, but with new faces. Just a great tool for reimagining yourself and even your style. I could see clothing designers going absolutely nuts with this.

[@Pneumanon]

Why would anyone pay an artist to do that, you could just subscribe to a library and be done with it.

[@xyungeloest1]

I just want to say how absolutly fantastic it is, that you provided that source links in your video infos. They are a great starting point to try it out for yourself. Thank you!

[@wherearetheturts]

I think a way to combat art theft through AI would be to list the pathway that created the image, sort of like how tik tok lists the filters used in a video. Not quite sure how the enforce that, but if a solution is found it could give credit where credit is due

[@deepfakestudio7776]

dude a style is not Copyrightable !!!! I can paint in your style all day long dot! and Stable Diffusion can't replicate the same piece or art used to train it because it can't

[@ShawnFumo]

It isn't really possible with at least these particular AIs. The thing is that these models don't store the original images. As they get trained, the develop visual concepts based on everything they've seen before. If you specify Alphonse Mucha, it's drawing on concepts it learn from every Mucha image it has seen, plus probably many other images that specified "inspired by mucha", plus since he is so linked with Art Nouveau, probably other images in that style. It's like if you painted a banana and someone asked you to specify your sources for knowing what a banana is. It's a combination of all the bananas you've ever seen, both in person, and in images and video. It's also why talk of "stealing" is tricky. Anyone can look at images online and get influenced by the style they see. They even can copy it closely without getting any permission in the legal sense (can't copywrite a style), but they may be criticized if they don't develop their own style eventually. But you also can merge multiple styles to try to have something unique (which you can also do with an AI). But whether it being an unthinking algorithm that "learned" vs a human matters legally and ethically is where the work has to be done for gov policy, etc.

[@martiddy]

@@ShawnFumo Exactly this, is not like the AI is taking the original image and modified a little bit, is a totally new image inspired in certain artist style. However, the style can be totally original and unique as well, is only if the user include the style of the artist in the prompt.

[@fabianking1776]

this was so simple but honestly one of the most entertaining videos I've ever seen

[@jasondenys]

I enjoy Corridor Crew videos but they rarely make me laugh out loud like this one did!

[@truemonarch7205]

4:14 I love how Sam Batman got 3 horns.

[@SpurrBlack]

I am friends with an artist. I like to brag to people that compliment my t-shirt designs that I am friends with the artist, as though that makes me somehow cooler.... the danger of ai is not replacing the product of art. It is the replacing of how important the lense of an actual artist, actually is

[@tbuk8350]

I was gonna say, since the release of Stable Diffusion, you've been able to fine-tune the model of a few images (as low as ~10) and it will pretty accurately generate new images with it. The problem was up until the Diffusers pipeline that made it as easy as a few lines of code to train, you used to have to write your own fine-tuning pipeline, which was an absolute chore.

[@Johnny-Joseph]

Do you know the AI model they used for this project?

[@MisterBung]

@@Johnny-Joseph Literally in the first few minutes of the video

[@idrip.]

Knowing that ai cant draw hands better than me really makes me feel better about my self

[@brexitgreens]

I don't get you, people. Nothing easier than hands. Should I be a professional artist?

[@moonik665]

Don't fret. AI models used in May 2022 couldn't draw faces.

[@Real28]

@@moonik665 lololol I was going add "...yet. Wait until December"

[@idrip.]

@@brexitgreens hand is the my fav part to draw It just scary that ai is this good but this scuffed

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@moonik665 I don't know if that's true. DALL-E 2 specifically disallowed generation of realistic faces for supposed safety reasons, before changing that policy, but the AI was more than capable of doing it at the time.

[@glenharris9366]

The Jurassic Park quote "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think they should" comes to mind. This stuff is only going to get better and better. I worry what it means for those working in creative industries...

[@michaelleue7594]

They definitely should. A world where artists are defined by their creativity and ability to connect with a person through that creativity is a better world than one where artists are defined by their technical expertise. Any time anyone can lower the technical bar for creating art and raise the bar for creating meaningful art, it's a wonderful thing that improves humanity as a whole. "Artists" who are worried about losing their jobs aren't worried about a loss of general creativity, they're worried about a loss of personal money.

[@glenharris9366]

@@michaelleue7594 I wouldn't personally call typing a few phrases into an AI algorithm artistic or creative. It trivialises the talent actually required to make this stuff. Incredibles quote now: "when everyone's super, no one will be". And I think it's totally fair for artists (or anyone for that matter) to be worried about loss of income, particularly when the competition isn't even human.

[@mattperson7293]

Grant - "I think I'm out of a job", Malcom - "Don't you mean extinct?"

This is wizardry. I'm playing with SD since its premiere, but the ability to add a "custom character" into the model is something else entirely. Gotta check it out. Great video!

[@mayabladewing]

As much as AI art is just AWESOME and super inspiring to look at and generate, it's also kinda sad that real people who spent years practicing to render, draw, and create can be easily mimicked within seconds by a machine. It takes away from the magic, even if the AI itself IS magical

[@jothki]

It's kind of good to know, though. In a way, most of human society throughout history has fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the creative process.

[@imjashingyou3461]

Welcome to the real world artists.

[@Stevenwave-]

@@jothki On that note though, like Nico touched on at the end, is it your/the AI's creation, or the original inspiration really powering it? Because I'd say this is mainly imitation, rather than creation. It's a tricky one though, because this is obviously creating a new image, and requires the imagination of the person controlling the AI. And us humans do draw inspiration from others. It could be argued that there's no difference between this and someone directing creating art in someone's style. But it's incredibly eerie and unsettling how little effort needs to be put in via AI.

[@RaptorJesus]

@@jothki I love the idea that humanity just sort of brute-forced it's way through art for the past ten thousand years. That is *entirely* something we'd do.

[@MasDouc]

@@gedankenthesis You're full of it.

[@chamsghom3328]

Remember, we needed real artists for this to happen. and we would still need real art for it to keep happening. if this technology kills traditional art, we'll be stuck with recycling old ideas.

[@jaredf6205]

All the humans who have made something “new” were just trained on previous artists and ideas just like the AI is. AI can make something new in the same way people can.

[@goatpepperherbaltea7895]

You wish

[@classic9567]

yeah but i don't think a lot of artist want to be used in a prompt, because that's whats going to happen

[@ezradlionel711]

@@jaredf6205 Nothing new under the sun doesn't mean there's literally nothing new to be discovered but "some people" seem to have taken it as a challenge to be as derivative as possible.

[@ezradlionel711]

@@minyaw1234 if "we" didn't know how AI learning algorithms worked we wouldn't have AI. Most of these AI learning algorithms are decades old and are only producing results now because of big data and more powerful consumer hardware. There will be many versions of AI but this current one used for distilling art styles is reliant on fresh ideas from artists and literally can't come up with new concepts.

[@lorenhikaru]

This is mind-blowing and horrifying for me. It's amazing because of how instantaneous this program can produce art illustrations just by taking pictures of the subject and just as Niko said, "Boop!" then boom, it's there. On the other hand, it's terrifying because this program exists. In a few years, this AI could get way more creative, more accurate, and maybe after 10 years, more accessible to the public. Not only do I feel bad, but as an aspiring digi artist, oh boy.

[@aribjarnason]

Anyone with a just a small interest in this can NOW make this on a good home computer. This is not 10 years away. This software will probably be available, for everyone, with no know how by the end of the year.

[@HotaruZoku]

This video has one of the most well written and accessible Descriptions I've ever seen.