Was watching this latest Arch video where he compares the 'April O'Neil' that was in the latest TMNT property compared to a black April O'Neil he put together with AI. TLDR; the AI despite a few faults still made her hot and look capable in each compared to the frumpy troll the film got.
We know some of this is ideological that they want to lower the standards of beauty, but with AI becoming easier and easier to use that boomers are starting to use it, why pay for over compensated, lazy, unskilled vurtue signalling artists currently striking than just use a machine and then edit it a bit with 1 artist or AI again if it makes a third arm?
I honestly think AI is going to not really hit the blue collar jobs and heavy industry since if something goes wrong you need a human that can adapt to either fix it or turn it off to limit further damage. The service industry will be case by case like if there's been too much of an issue getting staff or with the staff there if it's more beneficial to turn it into a giant vending machine. But the one that I think will be obliterated in the west will be the Media industry, when all they do is repost each others works like a giant human centipede, why pay them when you can just get an AI to write it for a few dollars and it takes minutes not hours and doesn't require giant office's just a computer.
Entertainment is worse as I fundamentally believe we can easily have a lot of films that have the same CGI as the Final Fantasy film for cheaper than it would take to use actors nowadays. Just make sure you get a seperate AI to make the script good. We'll still get your Top Gun Mavericks, your John Wick or even your Sound of Freedoms as they appeal to customers but by large, I can see the bulk of western media being replaced with CGI in the next 2-3 years than a decade.
I don’t see this affecting Asian, Indian or even Eastern European media as much since they are still appealing to a customer base than preaching. I do think at the end of the current strikes, we are going to see a massive reduction in physical studio spaces and 'celebrity' actors and a rise in machine made Entertainment.
The funniest thing about AI to me on the image side is how many Tumblr-type leftist artists immediately fixated on "AI art is theft", while Japanese artists were overjoyed that they don't have to draw backgrounds anymore. It's an incredible force multiplier for any artist with a tiny bit of technical acumen and no ideology hangups.
Imagine how much manga we'll see now that Manga-ka don't have to work 100 hour weeks due to AI.
I understand that this is only one point but several things happened with the Japanese side.
Of the artists I follow, there were quite a few that embraced the technology immediately when it dropped, either having made their work easier/better or just playing with it for fun. However, for those that were vocal, many, if not most, were angry or frustrated. Their complaints ranged from "sameness"/"unoriginality" to "not putting in the effort", or "theft" like the Tumblr-types. It definitely is doing a lot of damage to repetitive-type artists or ones who price their commissions too high. Pixiv and DLsite et al went through many problems regarding their sites getting flooded or the monetization of AI works.
They are sort of going through similar issues, even though studios can now get magnificent backgrounds for dirt cheap or no expense. For individual artists, acceptance is slow depending on the quality of their style or their ego.
And again, like the video, the best rise to the top. The town of Hinamizawa, from the VN Higurashi, literally exists. The artist went to a small podunk village, and just drew what he saw in straight-up artwork, and then converted it to anime style. You can visit where every character lived. And thus, the village looks incredibly realistic, because it WAS real. An AI would piece random things together, that look good on their own. And would work just fine. But the works made by truly good artists would still be noticed and appreciated.
You could use current AI image tools to teach your computer to draw in your style, feed it photos of a city or park or whatever, and it'll redraw the photos in your style. It's capable of so much more than the people just raw prompting on Reddit are doing with it.
For sure, but that then still presupposes an artist: A photography artist.
Everyone has professional grade cameras cira 2010s in their pockets at all times. It's easier than ever to take serviceable photos.
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