You Don’t Need To Worry About AI Art - Here’s 5 Reasons Why

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This is a fun topic! Let me know your thoughts or additional questions in the comments. I'll make some follow up videos discussing what we can learn from AI generated Art. And also some more in depth advice on building a career and how to deal with change in the art industry.
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[@rem7502]

I took a long break from art due to ai induced anxiety. But after a while I just decided that it’s here to stay and I should keep improving my fundamentals so that I can use ai in ways that help me make art faster, and make my art stand out, while still retaining the human touch and my identity and signature in it. This would be something only artists would be capable of, differentiating them from simple prompt users. Like dynamic action poses and perspective shots could be enhanced so much. And so day before yesterday i finally picked up my pen again and it made me realize that I love doing this, and no matter what ai does, I’m addicted to the calm, struggles, rewards and lessons that making art brings me. I’m not worried about ai art anymore.

[@BarKeegan]

In recognition of the importance of art in society, on the 12th of April 2022, the Irish government piloted a scheme to give a random selection of artists a basic income for a three year test period. One of our politicians stated that: ‘The recent pandemic reinforced the fact that each and every person relies on and leans into the arts during times of need and every person was reminded of the true value of artists and their work during the last two years’

[@ncm2738]

Good old Ireland!

[@ryanartward]

Man now I wish I can live there.

[@mrbananoid]

I was taking a break from drawing and art as a whole, so coming back to see this AI art discussion was paralyzing me, to say the least. Gotta thank you for these vids you've recorded, for I now feel more relaxed and ready to have fun and make a living of the things I like to do. Those cocky techbros can go screw themselves big time, they're no different to those annoying NFT or crypto addicts.

[@MAXRAY-bw9kv]

relax more likely they ill hire only 6 artist instead of 20 lol

[@chinogambino9375]

I'll still draw but nah, I think we are pretty F'd. Most people are shallow as hell, no ethics barely conscious; this technology lines up precisely with the interests of capitalist lizard people and the mediocre consumer. The tech is good enough to fool the public, they just want pretty pictures and especially other creatives who can't draw like 3D artists; they are feeding as much work as possible from living concept artists into their own nodes to avoid ever paying a collaborator ever again. These are not 'tools', they aim to make finished works and a lot of them are just what you would get from near professional artists. Any jank left in them is not going to last forever. Unlike a tool we don't use them in reality, the developer are using us to refine their product which is a machine that can plagiarize any artist past or present with plausible deniability. Illustration is especially dead. Worst of all to me its affected how I enjoy art, now any exhibition of traditional skill will have the looming suspicion an AI made most of it. That is the future using these things as 'tools' holds for us, painting over output we didn't think of. Lots of output, lots of lies and a race to the bottom for fewer dollars. These things are basically zombifying art and illustration as uploading is dangerous(Digital artists are already hiding Hakenkreuz and 天安門事件 to get their works blocked on image databases) and now the next generation won't even use their own brains for discovery. AI bros are already trying puppeteer Kim Jung Gi's corpse to make a generator in his style, they are trying to eliminate the incentives to be someone like KJG. There will always be artists but once skill is no longer a differentiating factor what happens? There's going to be fewer of them. You are going to have a creative pipeline for some products but you are going to need fewer people at every stage. If you sell art directly to customers well, good luck on that. I actually enjoy looking at poorly drawn fan art from beginners now over expert renders as Stable Diffusion is turning that whole artstation aesthetic into unbearable kitch.

[@nobafan7515]

Your description of the masses is spot on. The ai would never be a threat to talented and hard working artists if the average person didn't settle for junk food or soul-less or objectively bad art. And watch the ai first get rid of jobs most people take for granted and take advantage of, such as key frame artists. I believe this will mirror the shoemaker during the industrial revolution.

[@heygreydey]

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[@mrbananoid]

You're not a professional artist, are you?

[@HumanMadeGlobal]

Join us in "Safeguarding Human Creativity from the Impact of AI."

[@sunderark]

Well I blink out of existence for a few moments and now you are a youtube star. Awesome content, man.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Haha :)

[@harshpal7097]

So according to the US Copyright Office AI cannot be copyrighted so i dont think many companies would like to use AI alot.

[@nobafan7515]

Knowing big companies and the legal system, they'll find a way to skirt the law. That said I expect them to replace the slave-like conditions. I am reminded of the shoemaker and accountant related jobs lost to newer technologies.

[@coyoteclockworkstudios3140]

I didn't even want to hear about this when I finally got over some childhood trauma, launched my KZbin, and started showing my art. Anything that screams "you chose a bad time to do this and you should've done it sooner" just couldn't be on my radar. It's good to know this isn't something I should worry about.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

It is something you should worry about though. Look at the ai art being made now compared to a year ago. The difference is HUGE. In only a couple years or even less then a year companies will be replacing artist with it easily, without needing any touch ups on the ai art. Dont be fooled by 1%s that already have their career established and a fan base. There's only going to be so many people looking to pay premium for human art and only already established and popular artists will have access to them and even then they will have to fight among themselves in our now ai world.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late.

[@shadzo_o6088]

​@@DigitalCosmos555 for now, AI art is kinda bad it's not good enough for companies it can't generate humans or good design and i don't think it will AI art is better for more of painterly style wich things doesn't necessarily look right but it looks somewhat as something which is not good enough it's far from good design maybe it will replace Instagram artist but not character design or anything because it's not about making somewhat of cool colors it's about designing and thinking and making new stuff and all this should be drawn from multiple angles for the 3d artist to model...etc but I bet you don't know anything you just talk about something you don't comprehend and i saw a lot of ppl like you

[@coyoteclockworkstudios3140]

@@DigitalCosmos555 Okay, first of all: I worked in the industry in 2008-2013 before I became disabled. It sucked ass, and the industry continues to abuse its workers. If AI art means less people are being exploited for shitty companies with death-march deadlines, that's good news in my book. I'm not trying to get into the industry: I got the fuck out of it. Everyone I graduated college with is also out of it, except for 2 people. Second, I don't do my art so that I can compete with AI or other people. I do it because it's an important skill to me that I want to explore for the rest of my life. Framing artistic merit in terms of capitalism is a pretty shitty way to look at things, especially when you look at how much you emphasize stress and fighting. Maybe you can just bow out of the game? I did, and I'm fine. I'm much happier drawing for myself.

[@coyoteclockworkstudios3140]

@@DigitalCosmos555 I guess I just remember when Life of Pi was winning awards, and all the artists who worked on it were outside the awards show picketing and protesting, because they'd lost their jobs and their studio had shut down. If the system we already have in place is ALREADY fucking the shit out of its artists, how does AI art make that worse somehow?

[@loadsheddingzim]

question, are ai artists making money selling this stuff? I've noticed these guys are drawing an incredible amount of attention and people are requesting prints, nfts etc. won't lie this ai stuff seems like it's going to affect actual artists more negatively than many of these KZbin videos say

[@TheDrawingCodex]

I don’t really know if people are making money right now. But I don’t see how they can keep making money given unlimited supply of art in that style… there is always a hype bubble with this stuff. It’s like when photoshop first did lens flares :) it was great for a bit… lens flares on everything… now there are no lens flares on anything ever. Ai art and people selling lame nft schemes are probably a great match!

[@loadsheddingzim]

@@TheDrawingCodex well hope your right, to be fair midjourney generated art looks way more impressive than lens flares haha. Truly hope this technology does not ruin the art industry

[@TheDrawingCodex]

@@loadsheddingzim NOW lens flares look less impressive :) back then it was so cool. Haha :) Yeah I hope it doesn't do any real damage. hard to tell what the future holds... but rarely does it unfold in the way people imagine. Remember that we can all use these tools if they become freely available. There will be a lot more automations and ways to make money and survive as an artist due to ai and new tech. It's not all going to replace us. It will also allow new things which people are not imagining now. The tech and ability for artists to create things and build new business and products by themselves is only barely being tapped right now. Everyone is still in look for a job mode... and become a social media star mode. Neither of which are the best uses of technology right now. Focus on creating good products and trying to help other people... I think those goals will survive a few generations of career strategy at least. If really good ai does come along it will be very expensive to use. These tools are being offered for free in the beginning because it helps the companies that run them build the software out... it might not be free for all forever.

[@BarKeegan]

@@TheDrawingCodex reminds me of what Neil Gaiman has said, whatever’s going on in your life ‘make good art’.

[@kylelee5966]

@@TheDrawingCodex I think it will just oversaturate its own market due to the little effort required to produce it, but yeah I've heard of a few sales made by AI art

[@radudancoroian5169]

Dont know if anybody will see this but I am an art student. I gave up on robotica to persue being a worldbuilder and animator. This ai bs hit me like a truck in the last few weeks. Idk what I should do at this point however I cant constantlt give up on the path careers I take

[@Lysirell]

Don't. Give. Up. The landscape right now may seem unclear, but as this becomes more mainstream, it will be just as when digital art first emerged. I'm sure art is a hard career by itself, but there is always space for an artist who knows how to sell & wants to live off of his art. The artistic market is way too broad to be overthrown just like that, and it may even grow. As AI becomes more popular and the skill level necessary to produce decent art goes down, this will all probably result in a resurgence of art for the sake of what it was originally meant for: as an expressive and communicative tool for people. Human creativity and expression will be valued over everything.

[@anastasiiaasp]

@@Lysirell yes

[@DesignMinistries]

As an art director for a small studio, my advice for artists would be to understand that there is potential here to get ahead of the curve by increasing both the speed and quality of your art with this new technology. If you’re quick and skilled you may be able to make some money and get your foot into the door in a number of areas where you were not able to. In time more and more artists will learn to utilize this technology and it will become commonplace, and those who are not using it at that stage will be left behind (unless they've carved out a niche for themselves or are in a area that requires more creativity than production). But delaying learning these new tools will also make learning easier. This technology will not remove the need for skill. Its just a means of automating some functions (keep in mind that even the Old Masters hired teams of apprentices to help them to many parts of their work).

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Awesome points Wade! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@dwarfbard]

Agreed. Although I'm not a professional, I have also tried using these tools to get some new ideas/inspiration. I enter the info I would like as a end result and look at different images that come out for inspiration. Maybe some of the images spark an idea that I never even thought of before.

[@bananamanchuria]

Some things i do agree andnothers don't. 1. It all depends what field because you still have traditional illustrators who don't use photobashing for most comps and aren't affected because they can solve it differently. Other trad artist learned to work with photobash and it allows for more creative flow and thats ok but the artist created the work it wasn't assited to the point of filtering tons of visual garbage. At the end what keeps you upfloat is your niche or fan base... Unles your a studio artist then that's different because you depend on what the company wants from you. I don't agree on the last argument stated that masters hired apptetience to speed up the process because ai at the end is just that artificial it maybe learn things but the human errors small or big is what allow for a lot pieces to feel more unique and human. Ai is just going to cheapen the experience and the product unless it is highly altered to what a human wants. There is speculation that ai will be so advance that we won't know the difference... Well i call bullshit on that because our visual tech hasn't been able to get to a full realisyic appeal especially fot those fx guys in movies. Cgi will still have that feel of cgi even in porn games or vids that used high 4k textures no matter how hard is not the same as looking at a real pornstar on vídeo. Same thing will happen there will be a small factor that will evetually come out unique to ai. Now how many artists nowadays artist use photoshop as a main tool but thanks to trends and niche markets some people are going back to traditional media like oils, watercolors, matkers, etc and most of those people don't know industry standard practices and tools and wouldn't need them in other to create stunning pieces. This is different from your analogy that masters used help from others but they we're human... They are sentient beings who live and depend from that work... And right there is where you are wrong and ai will allow for companies to rip people of even more than ever and make outstanding profits. To excuse the hiring of artist these tech bros are giving greaseball companies a vantage point on the market and cheapens the value of work. Now for the indie level studios would be a great help and I understand that situation but thats a case by case scenario.

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

AI should be destroyed- why are artists not rising up to protest this? AI will destroy so many art jobs- the majority of them and eventually ALL art jobs, eventually if humans are still around NO ONE will want do art when they can use an app to make their own movie or anything that they want. We are seeing the destruction of creativity for humans. Now it seems llike just another tool..but ten years..fifteen years from now?

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

@- _ All your comparions and analogies are terrible..Your basically talking about tools and fair competition that pushes everyone to be better-AI will be like that at first,but I am thinking ahead into the future. The difference is AI gives you a complete product faster,cheaper and better than any human in the future. Your saying like when the camera came out painters thought they’d be gone,but the camera isn’t a robot photographer that is better than a human because it’s a tools that has to leveraged with skill... but now Dall-E and Midjourney are robot artists who are still in early stages. They will get better and better and reach a point where 2D art will not be done by humans. Why would you? Humans will become slower and more expensive.

[@darkwitnesslxx]

I downloaded Stable Diffusion 1/2 an hour ago. And I've already made 50 book covers, that I would have commissioned for. Those artists are already obsolete. This tech is impressive,and it's moving fast. Within probably your lifetime, you'll be able to generate an entire cartoon, by feeding it a script, which will be written by ChatGPT, and voice acted by character Ai's,, with music by Vocaloid Ai's. You are severely underestimating this advancement.

[@MatheusNiisama]

I think you fundamentally misunderstand AI technology and where the problems with it lie ethically. It's a machine that create meshes based on images that are fed to it, without disclosing who's art is being used. The thing you focus so much on, what you as a person can bring to the table, there is already a demand for having that being completely undermined, because people are literally typing the names of artists expectating to get an image on their art style. What will be of artists and art in general if what makes them special no longer matters.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Yeah I have looked at the mechanisms behind it a bit more since making this video (mostly here I am just sharing my overall thesis which leads me not to worry about this kind of thing... and thus I don't pay much attention to how it's doing what it's doing). I think it is ethically problematic for sure. Similar to what humans do in terms of processing their influences and inspiration... but I think it opens up a lot of questions about where that line is. And because it is openly being influenced by names of artists I think it is a lot harder to prove originality on the part of the AI. I have never tried it... but from looking at other people's videos where they create art it seems like an utter nightmare of pain and misery to type all that nonsense and try to lower oneself to the level of a bad AI like that. It seems so boring. The people who get good results are putting in a lot of effort fiddling with it. It might get better and easier to use... or it might not :) I'm not sure who is actually going to replace their well paid artist tasks with AI like this any time soon. given the technology at the moment I don't think there is any utility to it. That might improve in the future... or it might not. Assuming it will is the terminator fallacy... again there are so many legal issues with the copyright that make it a nightmare too. Again I wouldn't worry about it right now :)

[@LarsRichterMedia]

@@TheDrawingCodex I have to heavily disagree with your conclusion. Not worrying about it now, especially regarding the legal issues of copyrighted data being harvested, is the worst thing the art community could do to itself. Without people filing lawsuits we will just be bending over and let them get away with stuff that would be absolutely unimaginable to tolerate in other industries. Just look at the music AI from OpenAI and how they avoid any copyrighted song material in their datasets because big labels would sue them until they cease to exist. Look at Stable Diffusion 2.0 that is being massively critisized by the SD community itself because apparently you can't really get anything good out of it anymore if you type "in the style of Artist XYZ". Seems like the lawsuit against github copilot AI is already working in the minds of people like the CEO of SD and they begin to shift towards something that's more legally sound for corporate usage. There is already another group of people calling "their product" Unstable Difussion which aims to have "no censorship". What they actually mean is that they don't care about copyright and especially not about ethics. There will always be such groups on the fringes of society and the economy and that is something we will have to tolerate. Big corporations milking artists for free to turn a profit for themselves on the other hand is something we absolutely should worry about right now as there is still some time to legally kick this rolling boulder in a much more reasonable direction.

[@Yendis]

This video gave me a lot of peace of mind, thanks for sharing your insight and perspective. Have been committed to learning drawing fundamentals for a year now as a hobby with the hope of being able to maybe make something of it in the long term, seeing what AI was capable of felt like my efforts and dreams towards this goal were being set on fire. Feeling much better about it now and came away with a much better understanding of what makes artists valuable on top of that.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

It is something you should worry about though. Look at the ai art being made now compared to a year ago. The difference is HUGE. In only a couple years or even less then a year companies will be replacing artist with it easily, without needing any touch ups on the ai art. Dont be fooled by 1%s that already have their career established and a fan base. There's only going to be so many people looking to pay premium for human art and only already established and popular artists will have access to them and even then they will have to fight among themselves in our now ai world.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late.

[@Yendis]

As I said I’ve never put full stock into art as a carrier since it’s never seemed reliable even before these developments. I’m studying IT at uni so art being non-financially viable isn’t world ending just a bit depressing. Still gonna keep learning to draw though as it’s fun and the skills will help if I ever want to pick up other creative mediums besides still image artworks.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

@@Yendis nice good for you my dude your one of the lucky ones

[@RayquazaSkyTower]

I'm in grade 11 and was about to apply for art university, but when I saw Ai can do it. I feel like don't want to continue art journey, In very first they said creative job like writer and artist are safe but now I'm not sure about it anymore. It's feel like why I would study art if soon Ai gonna replace me? All art I make gonna get feed to Ai. Why do I have to put my effort and energy for it if Ai can done it better that me and people/companies will buy those work over mine? Many don't care about how hard it take to make art they just want the result(Many don't value art. They said it just a scratch on the paper why cost a lot?) most artist already underpayed and now Ai just make it worse(There are already some artist got message "Art like this Ai can do it, It's even better and cheaper also faster") why would people and companies give their money to me(or maybe other artists) when there are Ai that can gave them better and faster work?, now there are lot of people use Ai to make image and sell it, some even claim those as their own art.(There are people selling prompts now) I mean they don't even pick up a pen, practice or anything else just type word into program. But I listen to Lilika station talked about Ai they said what we have to concerned is not Ai itself but people who can use the Ai the new artits as they can get in master level faster as they generate picture using Ai and did some retouching(For me they don't. They don't know the basic they just have Ai work for them) it some people from company said some companies really serious about this, as they know the existence of Ai they have test for anyone who applied for job which they have to go to draw at the company to prove it, or some when they see portfolio full of Ai art they rejected it, they said when you work you still need to draw if you can't draw and only using Ai for your portfolio it will be stressed for you self instead, or maybe in another way people will get tried of Ai art(now they hype because it's something new to them[well it's been there for long time but people don't know about it]) and still value the art made by human( some said it will generate a lot and then it will be kind of...too much of it? Like the same style a lot, I don't know what word to use in eng. I'm sorry) and then I will separate into 2 ways 1). Market for Ai art 2). Market for human-made art(but I don' know what future will bring, will the Ai get so good to the point where we don't need artist at all? I don't know or just like shirt or bakery? There are factory but the handmade one got more value[but still harder to sell it]). They said but if you want to be art director or work as an artist you still need to learn basic thing like anatomy lighting shading composition and storytelling(also the more we need is communicating skill) without that then you can't do thing that much on your own you can't describe why thing are like that. It will not entirely replace but it's sure it will effect but it's still have positive side like become tool for artist make a concept so we can work faster making better quality artwork as we have more time and more people can access to art more (people also have more choice of which art they want but we have to improve a lot so we can stand out and make people recognise us and buy work from us) also when motion capture was a thing animators were also concerned but at this time they still exist(but it have effect as they need less people just like when vector astist got effect when there is freepik) or just like when camera was invented the protrait artist also concerned (same as when traditional artist when digital art got invented/ professional photographer when photoshop was released but they still exist [for me I see a bit different as this Ai required no skill at all they don't teach you art they make art for you and when photography existed many artists that painted cover for ad or magazine become jobless, I already seen this from my father, he is a photographer when phone with good camera got released demand for professional photographer becoming less]) Even though I tried to comfort myself saying that Ai is a tool that can help me, I can't but still feel concerned by it, it learn lot faster, anime 18+ or else, they can do it, it can even copy artist's artstyle(Copyright trouble gonna give me headache, Imagine got art by some artist's artstyle but the money go to Ai and now I heard that some people generate picture but the picture got artist's watermark/sign in it) and it's just in beta not sure what can it done in future at this point we still need people because there are char design and some work that still need people as Ai don't know about emotion and history or how to represent it but I don't know if I start my career it will be able to get to that point and I becoming jobless. Sometimes I think I should quit making art and go live in wild lol I just hope that there will be place for human-work since in Pixiv I've seen lot of Ai art that are beautiful but got less like than human-made one Edit : sorry for grammar mistake and if I make some part confusing for you Eng is not my native language🙏

[@eelboy9017]

He said in one of his videos, that art for market is one thing and art for oneself is another. I guess we'll just have to adapt to new tools to serve to the market - and make money. And we'll always have the option to do art for ourselves. So don't worry! Keep learning and doing art for youself - and study the market and adapt to the tools and needs to earn money. Divide these parts of life I suppose. Set goals when it comes to money if you're a freelancer - reach those goals by taking all sorts of assignments and adapting to the market. And once you have enough - do your own thing, and/or pick and choose projects and clients according to your own taste. Good luck, and don't give up on art!

[@AironyAi]

The only purpose of AI art is that the techbros can do more and faster NFT Art

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Haha :)

[@LilView]

Couldn't be further from the truth

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

@@TheDrawingCodex So you think comic book,manga and other styles that you could be called “cartoonist” would be the longer surviving things?

[@LilView]

@@rorybjorkman Seriously. This dude must have zero vision for the future. 90% of the media you consume will be AI generated in 10 years

[@ncm2738]

@@kangtheconqueror8359 i don't think any style of art is going to die. The aspect of realism that made Courbet so successful was the harsh, blatant truth put out on a canvas without any sugarcoating, it wasn't romanticized. Guernica by Picasso also has similar feel. Surrealism expresses the human subconscious. Abstract art is entirely impossible to understand or do unless you have a human understanding and soul since the way it expresses things is especially limitless. Academicsm and romanticism and impressionism all are a person's unique perspective that really brings out a person's inner thoughts (look to Monet and Cabanel). Hopper, Caravaggio, Cabanel, Courbet, Picasso, Francis Bacon, Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Géricault, Vermeer, Manet, Goya etc. Some of their pieces makes us stop and think and ask questions, other pieces deliver a strong human message to our deepest souls.

[@pedrovitor5324]

For anyone worried just think like that: books and radio are an outdated way of entertainment and knowledge, but they still exist and still being consumed by a lot of people. Same wil happen with AI art if it becomes a real thing someday. It will still exist people who would preffer human art over AI art (Like I already preffer). So momentai friends! ^3^/

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks for your thoughts Pedro! Access to creating books and radio style content has also increased immensely with technological advancement.

[@calistafalcontail]

Sir, as much as I would like your words to be true. I just got so sad and angry, when I saw how many people on Instagram comment on AI art accounts and ask for prices of prints...and these no talent or skill having mofos who never had anything to do with creative work before, are selling people "their" AI art without ever lifting a pen/brush or opening a programm. Its a threat to everyone who sells art that took time and energy to create cause these generators just poop out stuff by the minute. Everything that is over abundant or can be created by everyone with a few clicks loses value. Maybe I am just to heated about this and I cant think clearly enough but wow this stuff seems like a nightmare to me.

[@shanghaitatoo]

@@calistafalcontail I totally get you! I hope you stay strong and hopefully, but I am quite angry as well. There are people who spread this like cancer, and they get a kick out of it somehow, perhaps to advance their agenda. If it gets too much you can step out of the digital online space and get back to real life. Outside of the online space there are more rational voices unlike the online echo chamber.

[@teddybeareatingicecreamdot7123]

@@calistafalcontail plus we need money too survive. I need to eat. Im scared because im studying arts. Now that Ai is a thing and its quick.I have lost hope.

[@Xsuprio]

@@calistafalcontail Took the words out of my mouth. I was blissfully unaware of this happening until a few days ago, when I noticed something funny going on in art communities. Suddenly there were all these concept pieces by different "artists" that had the same kind of feel to them or just blatantly looked alike. I am literally looking at a 1 week old account on DA right now which has 170 uploads! Excuse me.... 171 now, because they just keep generating new "art" and posting it. In the last hour, 5 new uploads. Nightmare is right! One there's no waking up from, because the genie is out of the bottle! No turning back. In fact... the AI will get better! Even IF companies would be willing to hire a human to make their art, the artist better be careful how much they ask. Because Mr Bossman can just hop on his computer up in his office and do it himself! It's the artpocalypse! No more "starving artists". They're all DEAD!

[@EnigmaScience]

Thank you for the in-depth look on this situation. I think this whole doom and gloom mood in the net about this whole AI-art thing comes from people who either have no idea what art actually is, or from people who're just starting to learn it. You're absolutely right that what makes money and secures your job as a freelance artist is your fanbase which likes you and only you, that's why so many different freelance artists coexist on the same websites for years and years and everyone has their slice of the pie. You're also absolutely right that when it comes to working in a big corporation your drawing skill are also far from the most important skill you have - your ability to communicate, organize your workflow and cooperate with other people can be far more valuable. And yes, AI can get as good as it wants, but you will never be able to describe the picture detailed enough to replicate what you have in your imagination just by typing words. As a freelance story writer I crave to learn how to draw comic books just to be able to show people what exactly I imagine. But I am also excited to see a more developed AI which would be able to learn your specific artstyle and replicate it - this way if you have a big portfolio you could drastically speed up content production and it would make massive webcomics like TwoKinds take like 2 years to make instead of 20. Anyway, I believe you're also right that no skill is useless, especially in art - every single tool has its use, and without understanding fundamentals you will never understand what distinguishes bad art from good art and even AI wouldn't help to fix that lack of artistic view of its user. As an example everyone has a decent camera in their smartphone, but only a fraction of people who has photographer's skill can take really good pictures with it. PS: Thank you for promoting your Free Illustration Mini Workshop, I will certainly try it!

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks for your thoughts! I totally agree. I am surprised at the doom and gloom attitude about this on youtube etc. I think it works well as click bait (much better than my don't worry about it headline anyway... :) ) I don't hear ANY of the same doom and gloom from the professional artists I know. A lot of which still have 30-40 years to go in their career.

[@hazardlizard2552]

to me its as simple as like if there was a robot that breeds your wife far better than you could ever be yourself, only automation and efficiency will you be excited to let your wife no longer need you to make kids?

[@user-yb7rz6bg3f]

I do art as a hobby it helps to pass time and it very enjoyable to me at least

[@nicholashildenbrand8632]

Honestly almost everything in this video can be applied to a lot of other industries as well. People want two things from those they employ- reliability and a consequential skill set. That mentality of reinventing yourself is important too...necessary even. If, as he says in the video, robots do take over - no industry would be safe and arguably society would be nothing like it is today. So there's no point in worrying about it.

[@terriermonisgod]

very good point. at that point all industries are owned by the state and everyone on UBI

[@CardboardBones]

My frustration isn't ai the tool, it's how it's been created. It has used countless copywrited material from artists both dead and alive without discrimination and without any sort of consent from them. If/when people begin making a profit off of ai art, the people that the ai was trained on will not be compensated despite their work being used to make it work. That's what frustrates. It's literal art theft.

[@nobafan7515]

Wouldn't we get the same results if the ai was only fed artwork NOT copyrighted? Such as artists inspired by famous artists.

[@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS]

@@nobafan7515 No. Models with few or poor quality training images don't turn out well.

[@nobafan7515]

@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS not even if you included enough high quality inspired artworks that were specifically made to avoid being violations of copyright infringement?

[@BarKeegan]

I’m surprised none of the generators start with base meshes that would allow for multiple camera angles, and subsequent details (unless they’re currently evolving those capabilities)… then I’ll be worried 😅

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Yeah I am sure this is part of some of the roadmaps. There are solutions for creating 3D art from drawings. They are interesting and surprisingly good... but still useless for most applications. Once the AI can make a great model from my drawings and animate it I can finally make some cool games by myself!

[@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263]

is not too hard to implement those...

[@BarKeegan]

@@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263 uhoh

[@youtubedeletedmyaccountlma2263]

@@BarKeegan You should also join the programming side of all these Art creating AI to speed up process X)

[@gabudaichamuda2545]

​@@TheDrawingCodex You're missing something: These people aren't going to let you continue to use these "tools." First off, the AI is pulling imagery from the entirety of the Internet without the consent of those who made it. That's plagiarism on a massive scale. Secondly, with as fast as this is advancing, eventually it will be able to run without a prompt, and need zero human input. Lastly, they will eventually gate this behind a massive paywall, and to boot, *you will never actually OWN anything you make with it anyway, because the AI will flood the Internet out with its own junk.* I encourage you to look up the World Economic Forum and their slogan: *You will own nothing, and you will be happy.*

[@TheDrodder]

I "mostly" agree with you, you need to adapt and adjust to this technology to make yourself valuable. I will say though that this is WAY different then any time in art history. For the first time, a joe jack off can type in a sentence and produce "original" art on the scale of someone that's been studying for 10 years. Also, you're severally underestimating how fast AI has been getting better. Once AI can remember art styles and produce consistency across characters and environments, that's when the hemorrhaging of artists will begin. Just my thoughts ...tell me I'm wrong so I can stop stressing ;p (great vid btw)

[@halafradrimx]

All would be royalty free, though. I wouldn't even need to give credits.

[@TheDrodder]

@@halafradrimx Hmmmm....that's an interesting take especially sense copywrite laws are so not adjusting with this stuff yet. If I see cool AI art I like, guess I can take it without any care ha

[@chiari4833]

When everyone "is an artist", nobody actually is one anymore...

[@calistafalcontail]

Sir, as much as I would like your words to be true. I just got so sad and angry, when I saw how many people on Instagram comment on AI art accounts and ask for prices of prints...and these no talent or skill having mofos who never had anything to do with creative work before, are selling people "their" AI art without ever lifting a pen/brush or opening a programm. Its a threat to everyone who sells art, that took time and energy to create, cause these generators just poop out stuff by the minute. Everything that is over abundant or can be created by everyone with a few clicks, loses value. Maybe I am just to heated about this and I cant think clearly enough now, but this stuff seems like a nightmare to me. It should be used as inspiration maybe but the fact that you can download this and make it even higher resolution to sell, is a real problem already I think.

[@Cyberpunk644]

It is what it is, sucks to be you man. Leave a new skill; art is dead. Try trade school.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Hey Calista! I feel where you are coming from. All I can say is to think a bit deeper on what value is in relation to art (if you are selling direct to consumers). It is highly subjective. There are many many artists who have been creating bad art with low to no skill involved for decades/centuries. Some make money... some do not. There have been many dedicated artists with great skill also... some have made money... some have not. The energy and time you put into art is only valued if you make the purchaser feel like it has value... that is up to you or whoever markets your art. People buy prints and mass produced factory art all the time. If you are viewing your own work as a commodity then you have already lost to people who can produce it for less money than you... (which is very right now likely unless you are in a very low value currency country). Money is made through the market... not through skill. This has always been the case. Skill helps because most people value it... and it normally produces a good product which is easy to market... that is all :)

[@TheDrawingCodex]

​@@Cyberpunk644 lol

[@Cyberpunk644]

@@TheDrawingCodex your creativity is not that special, machine does it better than you, you just remix existing ideas anyways, and be all so pretentious on calling it art. its a con. you are just being a gate keeper if you think other wise, scared your field might be obsolete, or reduced to only the top performers. the 99% of artist are shit artist anyways.

[@Z4CK_RBLX]

@@TheDrawingCodex Agreed

[@G_zuz]

Been admiring Tim's art fo so long and my joy when i started learning how to draw and found his youtube channel

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks so much!

[@zemu252]

I am in this industry for a few years and i really dont know about the technological improvement over the years as much as you. With that point of view i was worrying if one day will i be worthless but the things you said really brighten my view. i agree that its a tool but the point i was concerning was are we gonna compete with the people who didnt take art lessons, will industry become more crowded and competiting. thank you tim

[@yamchayaku]

The only artists that are worried about AI art are ones that are 100% making a living by being employed by big companies or some crazy famous youtuber artist. And those kind of artists are actually far too few and between. The majority of the artists are actually not good enough to worry about getting their style stolen, and this market is so saturated that the majority are actually struggling to even make an income from it.

[@TheDanidem]

Hey Tim! I still come back to your videos about AI from time to time, but they were both made 9/12 months ago. I think it would be awesome to have a new video about AI art given how far he's come since the creation of this video! Keep up the amazing content, I really enjoy it!

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Hey Dani! Yeah I need to make some new updated videos on this. I have some much more in depth coverage planned.

[@TheDanidem]

@@TheDrawingCodex Awesome, looking forward to it!!! Thanks Tim!

[@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608]

You're thinking about Dall-E and Midjourney though. Not like....Dall-E version 13.4 like 10 or more years from now that is unimaginably more advanced. This technology will keep improving over what it is. But... I think that is what everyone is really scared of, the uncertainty. People who are about to pursue art are no wondering "Will it be a waste of time? WIll I be replaced and my skills be pointless in a few years, decades, in my life time or not? Should I pursue something else then and rely on this, what if I don't pursue art and then this turns out to never advance fast enough and that was the wrong choice?"

[@kylelee5966]

I mean why pursue a different field? if you love art do it...just imagine pursuing a different field and it gets taken over by AI too

[@hazardlizard2552]

@@kylelee5966 not everyone can afford their lives getting good at something only for a robot to scan their work and replicate instantly, that is a cuck mentality you got

[@Nozoroth]

@@kylelee5966 paying your bills is more important than drawing

[@nobafan7515]

@@Nozoroth unless doing the art is therapeutic. But yes, a financially stable job will be required.

[@STFUppercut69]

I think AI will continue to get better and better, but it will never be able to truly replace skilled artists. Artists solve problems as much as they produce great art and AI just randomly produces something, which might somewhat please you. But I do think that AI is already quite an interesting tool for artists and that it will continue to become more and more useful. For example, you can use AI to generate a random painting of the subject you want. If you're lucky, you will be able to quickly paint over it and show it to your client as a first thumbnail draft. But more importantly you can maybe get a good color palette and an atmosphere, which you can expand on.

[@LilView]

Wrong, I'm already selling AI generated art and no one can tell it wasn't done by a human being.

[@Akacchin]

@@LilView bro who cares

[@notthechannelyourelookingf1623]

Yes and no. Where is the fulfillment of having a program do 90% of the work ? I do art for a living too and I think it's catastrophe for humanity to welcome this in our process. I think it can be a great tool for sparkling that creativity again when you're suffering from an artblock but i dread the day my job will transition from making paintings from beginning to end with photoshop, to using AI for making the most of the illustration and then painting on top to then finally just being a translator for the AI.

[@alesiapratt]

Yeah, I’m always going to want to commission an artist for original work when I have the money to. AI art is cool and I love using midjourney and dall e, but I’m always going to prefer original and buying from creators.

[@done.8373]

@@LilView that’s great, except that is not the job of a professional artist, but that of the fine art world. In “fine art,” you create art for yourself , that hopefully someone will want to buy at a rate fast/high enough to keep you alive. In the design, concept, and other professional art worlds, you produce to a brief, a very specific set of requirements that must be met, to a standard, to get paid, and that seamlessly integrates into the work of others. The op is exactly correct, and is how AI is used not only today, but for at least 3 years hence.

[@orcapodstudio-retronaut]

This make a lot of sense all AI cannot have real motion as is linear algebra

[@HumanMadeGlobal]

Join us in "Safeguarding Human Creativity from the Impact of AI."

[@DavidBluelineGaming]

This was fantastic. Very well said.

[@mr.milkoloid9467]

ИИ - не инструмент, как и автомат с кофе - не инструмент по завариванию кофе. ИИ - эта "завод", он полностью низводит АБСОЛЮТНО ВЕСЬ процесс создания до - ничего. Просто покликал 5 минут и у тебя уже ГОТОВОЕ изображение, которое ты хотел. Инструменты - ускоряют процесс, а не убирают его. ИИ - не инструмент.

[@lvn5609]

Yess!

[@done.8373]

Anyone thinking that AI will be able to usefully take a brief or a bunch of data and create a finished piece or infographic that can be used professionally does not work in the field. Good luck replacing my 25 years of experience and millions of years of evolution with a bot :).

[@thelastpencilstudio]

Who cares if AI can generate art, I don't stop drawing just because someone else can draw. Art is a human experience that is not just about the end result. After the excitement wears off it will be about as interesting as a printer printing a highly detailed photo. You don't care because we know it's just a machine and it took no effort. It has its uses but a big part of the art market is actually supported by other artists. Musicians haven't stopped making music because AI can, Writers haven't stopped writing since AI could generate articles. Artists can keep making art. I think this means real physical art will have more value now.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

What happened to homemade furniture tho? 90% of the people that made chairs now don't have a job and only the top 1% who had a following of rich people who liked that artist. Same will shortly happen with art but on a bigger scale because ai has zero physical limitations unlike creating other forms of carpentry besides chairs.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late.

[@thelastpencilstudio]

@@DigitalCosmos555 Carpenters actually still make a very significant income, and people still pay top dollar for custom work. Another example is chess, which is a mostly solved game in terms of AI but chess AI didn't end chess. Chess masters use it to make themselves better players. You can keep hoping for free government money, but socialism is not the answer. Human-centered AI and an AI empowered human existence is.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

@@thelastpencilstudio lol chess is a sport unlike art. People don't go to stadiums to watch people paint. The majority of artists are at the whim of employers who don't care about them but only about making more money not rich people that want a custom painting. Also carpenters are doing something that's waaaay harder to automate. Until we have a cheap versitiile robot that can build things their safe but things like chairs, chairs etc it's dominated by robots. Art software is different way different tho then builder robots today it's instead the equivalent of a versitiile builder robot irl but for art.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

@@thelastpencilstudio welp yep ubi will be the answer as soon huge crowds of disgruntled people start protesting and attacking companies that fired them because those companies saw that a robot artist is way cheaper then a human one. Companies will not prefer human centered ai if they can just cut out the middle human and use the ai themselves lol it's a pip dream.

[@logicloops1957]

As someone looking to become an ai developer I really am glad to see that you didn’t become dazzled by the catch phrase “artificial intelligence”. The algorithms are amazing but also have limitations most people don’t expect.

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

Just stop.. AI is terrible i HATE it, it will destroy so many jobs,but art jobs..only very few will still be able to survive- AI is not just another tool- stop acting like it is. My dream is to be a pro artist,but i am so depressed because I know a machine would replace me anyway. Corporations will benefit from AI the most and its bad for most of the rest of us.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Logic Loops - Nice, great to hear from someone looking into that industry in more detail! Thanks for your thoughts.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

@@kangtheconqueror8359 - Relax! Remember if/when we get good ai that can actually replace artists the world will be a totally different place. You will be able to use the same AI to aid your own business. It will be easier for you to use the skills you have built from now until then to create things which people will be interested in. You might be able to get an army of AI bots to create the game or animation you have always been wanting to make as a director or creative visionary! Focus on your ideas and developing your craft and your eye. learning a craft will teach you a lot about how the world is put together. That will pay off in the long run. If you focus on creating awesome ideas it will become easier and faster and cheaper to create them. In the end I think you will find the AI is going to have a real problem creating stuff we want to see. It will replace production art long before it replaces creative vision. And even then replacing production art will be harder than anyone imagines. Good luck!

[@DigitalCosmos555]

@@TheDrawingCodex Everyone would be a be to use it though even companies themselves aka the owners of said company. Whoosh there goes 90% of the artist working there. Only a few people will benefit from this money wise and then eventually no one because it will be so advanced that you wont need a middle man. The problem isn't about it replacing art but instead people's livelihoods.

[@hazardlizard2552]

@@DigitalCosmos555 cuck tech bros would even let a robot breed their wives if it means it can do better than them

[@terriermonisgod]

even if the ai is only fed open source and copyright free art it will be powerful in making the iteration phase of art substantially less. but copyrighted material should be banned as a source, as well as the prompt of making something in the likeness of it

[@hipersonicc9736]

I'm developing severe depression over AI art. I'm new to the medium as a 3d artist and my living currently depends on It. I feel like my life is ending... I just Hope i change my mentality someday, but i just cant right now...

[@lvn5609]

How are you doing?

[@hipersonicc9736]

@@lvn5609 taking antidepressants. Just starting today. It all feels hopeless, but i Hope i can see the light someday. The news Unity released today IS very scary for me as a 3d artist. I just don't want my Life to end.

[@EuropaPhoenix]

An AI could only create an authentic original Art form that reflects its own nature. It could be interesting, but it wouldn't be the same than true human Art, because an AI doesn't know what it means to be a biological life form (having to eat, to sleep, to grow old and to grow up, to have children, to experience grief, etc). If it tries to mimic human Art, the end result will most probably feel fake and formulaic... and be successful, like so many formulaic movies, and so many formulaic songs. A lot of people are happy with low quality creations, so, yeah, it could take the jobs of many commercial Artists.

[@c7261]

Well. This ended up worrying me more :/ What you're saying makes sense on a personal journey type of front, all those qualities are valuable in an artist's development. However, these are not qualities that are valued so much by society at large (sadly). People will look at all the flashy colours and lights in a piece and remark how realistic it looks. That is usually the begining and end of how most people will analyze an image. There is a more discerning crowd who will examine more thoroughly for meaning and narrative, but I have a feeling that these people are the minority. It's hard to reconcile that a lot of artist's jobs will be safe, particularly in the production industry. When directors will flip through reams of character costume iterations for the next science fiction epic, they're not going to look for the one with deeper meaning or intellectual discourse. They're going to go with the one with most visual impact.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Ha ha! Oh no, worrying you was definitely not my intent. Which elements in particular got you thinking in a negative way here? I definitely think that the things we need to do to get different jobs are separate from the larger artistic journey. Sometimes our inner path and our career path overlap and sometimes they do not. Many jobs are as you say. But there are many career paths where the ideas I talk about will be vital to master. These ideas of goal setting visually and tracking progress are also great for rounding out your skill set and focusing on how to get more visual impact/shinyness/etc.

[@justsomeguyontheinternet7134]

Question for someone still learning the 7 fundamentals of art do you recommend learning them first and then the digital ai art stuff? Or how should I?

[@rawrrewind9052]

Learn the fundamentals so you can build on the AI art and manipulate it to your liking.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

@@rawrrewind9052 Eventually you wont need to build on ai art though. Sure its that way now in alot of ai art but with how fast its progressing it wont be that way always. Look at the ai art being made now compared to a year ago. The difference is HUGE. In only a couple years or even less then a year companies will be replacing artist with it easily, without needing any touch ups on the ai art.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Lol if you just starting you prob should look for a different career and keep art as a hobby or a smaller part of your career. If you dont well your screwed my dude

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late.

[@rawrrewind9052]

@@DigitalCosmos555 I still think that A.I art is pretty directionless and still needs input of some kind. saying that you wont need the fundamentals will lead to pretty bad A.I art. I've been using it for over a month and I still find my self having to correct it or manipulate it to get the image that I want. also there’s a great plugin for photoshop that uses stable diffusion.

[@squteart]

"yet"

[@randomnessblank9680]

AI art feels like an insult to the essence of art and the process itself which is suppose to allow us to derive joy from. It takes away the process of art, instead just being another process of correcting through words. It lacks the essence of art thus it has no business to be called AI Art.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Agreed. Great point. If it was called ‘average soulless computer generated imagery’ I doubt we would all be having this conversation. :)

[@bluetyproductions4916]

Thank you so much I needed to hear this makes me so relived for my artistic career.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

It is something you should worry about though. Look at the ai art being made now compared to a year ago. The difference is HUGE. In only a couple years or even less then a year companies will be replacing artist with it easily, without needing any touch ups on the ai art. Dont be fooled by 1%s that already have their career established and a fan base. There's only going to be so many people looking to pay premium for human art and only already established and popular artists will have access to them and even then they will have to fight among themselves in our now ai world.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late.

[@lefthandstory1280]

Great work 👍 beautiful ❤️❤️nice

[@guineapigfarmer6064]

All your arguments vs the speed and affordability that most companies will choose.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

False hope for artist. There can only be so many artist that will be lucky to have customers looking for the "human touch" everyone else will be screwed. Most people don't buy homemade furniture for example it will be the same for art. Ubi is needed or else people are going to be hurting bad.

[@TheFIame]

I'd argue this still applied even without AI, few artists will ever be able to make a living period. The ones that do are the ones who know how to market and reinvent themselves. This applies outside the art world and all professions since AI is in everything.

[@MKANDRESTINPEACE]

A but if hope is find in the stock market with collapse of envidia etc. Word is told fa Ms of computer to generate AI free content is very expensive and not lucrative at the moment subsided by USA government printing money and expanding debt to maintain artificial maker of USA. It will need to be more expensive and pay for commission would be more convenient

[@youscaredjodie1248]

Strange you defend this when your style could easily be taken and reproduced, and thus AI will replace you completely. Only certain styles of drawing will be spared of this, and yours which you no doubt have spent years cultivating will be easily replaced. Don't be a fence sitter, either stand for or stand against this slow destruction of the human condition. being partial to everything especially something that threatens your livelihood and purpose on this plane of existence is a weak standing point.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Great points! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I feel like my goal here is to make people chill out and focus on their foundation and drawing fun stuff. Vs quitting art due to AI. There are other people who touch on the ethical side of AI art. I have watched a few larger youtubers talk to this subject... and totally agree with what you are saying, it is stealing from artist's at large and has very little moral high ground to stand on. I think most of it looks terrible. And is a waste of everyone's time. But I have also seen it's utility for people who are not artists and have no ability or plan to become artists. I know writers who can pitch their ideas better and do things that were not possible for them earlier. This is expanding the idea space in an interesting way, as not all people with ideas can visualise them. There was and will never be the bandwidth for them to hire an artist for these purposes. It's additive. The problem is how the scripts are trained in this case, which is ethically grey for sure. I think you are seriously over-estimating the ability of these scripts though.... as I have mentioned in the comments elsewhere. But I totally appreciate your standpoint. The fact that we are talking about it... is giving it way more credence than it deserves. These are very average images that are mostly terrible, and in almost all cases the best images are somehow created by artists who are already good. I have spent a lot of time trying to coach people away from formulaic concept art and illustration using 3D and other crutches. Based on the simple first principal that if it's easier then it will become less valuable. I have tried to stay away from these methods of creating art for this exact reason. I think AI will have a harder time replicating my art than most others. But we will see :) I am not sitting on the fence, but rather trying to see the truth. Being on one side or another is falling into the algorithmic trap and giving in to outrage culture. Rise above the noise... keep drawing :) Outrage and ego can blind us to what is actually going on. It blocks our ability to see what the future might actually bring. Good or bad.

[@youscaredjodie1248]

​@@mrbananoid I am not partial towards those who support or defend the further devaluing of the human condition out of greedy, nihilist, or malevolent reasons. My rudeness now pales in comparison to the side effects that will be brought upon humanity in the coming centuries. If people really think that it will simply end with the fazing out of humans in select functions within the realms of art or the workforce. Then they are badly mistaken.

[@richie1589]

Hey do the people the air take the art style from have any problems with this

[@jauhgnaw]

If a robot can't replace a burger flipper why would it replace an artist?

[@kangtheconqueror8359]

because art can be made with sfotware-for a burger flipped you need a physical robot in the masses for a chain restuarant- so you need mass hardware and the software.

[@nestortomaselli6372]

@@kangtheconqueror8359 I bet that burger flipped by a robot would taste like shit though….

[@theapexfighter8741]

@@nestortomaselli6372 or not. Flipping is the simplest thing in the world. If a human can do it, so will a robot in the future.

[@uniqueforeternity8528]

it's laughable if you think robots can't flip burger.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Literally look it up on youtube they can and they will once the price to buy one is low enough

[@carlmig]

3D tv is the next big thing

[@TheDrawingCodex]

:)

[@icntsywhtiwnt2]

Editorial artists are done.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Maybe when AI systems get good at jokes? Until then it would be pretty miserable editorial I reckon :)

[@darylbiegtrucke4456]

I feel like the AI tool will only be useful in the hands of people who are already good anyway, just like how an inexperienced artist can try photobashing or tracing 3d and its still going to look bad.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Yeah I agree. Everyone underestimates the need for foundation and basic skills when they enter the new digital art realm. I deal with hundreds of students who try to make good stuff just focusing on the 3D/easier options... it rarely ends well. It's a lot harder to photobash or use 3D to create good images than people first imagine. The foundation helps people become flexible and link all these tools together to create more polished work quicker... but in the hands of beginners it often looks even worse than bad paintings... because it lacks all personality and charm :)

[@kapeecoffee]

Artist as a profession will be obsolete, unless something is being done about it. A kid wanting to do art will go to ai instead of practicing. Like why would they do something that would take years if they can just use this "tool" to get the same idea with better results. The value of art now has plummeted seeing the rise of supply

[@darasto2023]

ai is not the same as other tech revolutions, if ppl don't get that they will suffer from this. good luck guys :)

[@romanvarcolac2238]

It’s a terrible thing that people are blind to and must face. It’s insidious, even art will fall

[@TheDrawingCodex]

I would say if you don't ignore this nonsense and focus on how to make great art... you will suffer :) Good luck!

[@MKANDRESTINPEACE]

A but if hope is find in the stock market with collapse of envidia etc. Word is told fa Ms of computer to generate AI free content is very expensive and not lucrative at the moment subsided by USA government printing money and expanding debt to maintain artificial maker of USA. It will need to be more expensive and pay for commission would be more convenient

[@theapexfighter8741]

This guy looks like obi-wan

[@Cyberpunk644]

famous last words.

[@mrbananoid]

nope, he's still thriving. cuck

[@moodmack]

drawring

[@miwiarts]

Don't you get tired by holding your hands in the air all the time? lol sorry for asking

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Haha :) apparently not. The Roman Empire did stretch to Scotland back in the day. Perchance I have some Italian hand waving blood in me from way back… wild hand gestures are not limited to my on video persona!

[@miwiarts]

@@TheDrawingCodex Impressive!

[@EliteCasualGamer07]

What's next? AI world domination?

[@TheDrawingCodex]

A future full of miserable boring repetitive uninspired art of all kinds!! :)

[@mangakaar186]

There is no point to this video.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Or this comment! And yet here we are :) thanks for your thoughts!!

[@demonx6431]

30 mins of whole bunch of nothing and self promotion. Not 1 word against AI.

[@silvermushroom-gamifyevery6430]

Yeah, it seems that the thing that's becoming obsolete, is the thirty hours of rendering between idea creation and finishing touches.

[@DigitalCosmos555]

And the need for a team of artist because one can do the same job with a couple words and a ai program lol people are screwed

[@DigitalCosmos555]

Your best bet is to become a huge advocator in ubi that way income isnt a problem and you can still focus on what you love. Or/and change careers before its too late. One or the other or both

[@ragejinraver]

Either you adapt or perish sorry artist stop whining and use this AI to be better . Work with technology not against it