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 biggest losers in all of this have to be online artists, especially freelance. I paid decent money a few years ago to get a semi-realistic anime portrait that is clearly inferior to what I can mock up Anything v4.5 in under 5 minutes. The AI is less repetitious and more vivid than the human illustrator's portfolio, actually.
High-level concept artists have been dining off mobile game art for years now - I don't know any of them personally, but a look at Artstation should tell you as much - and AI can effectively ape their style. Where does this leave them? They're going to design more original character props and features than the AI, but we're talking mobile games here. The studios literally don't care about originality because their customer base might as well be AI themselves.
Maybe a silver lining is that artists will stop acting like Marie Antoinette when you try to commission them. I get that some of their customers are fire-breathing retards but online artists have to be one of the most entitled and passive aggressive groups on the planet.
I think artists will mostly just start using AI to make drawings.
The biggest issue with AI art is that it's often messed up (looking at you, fingers) and you need someone to make it look good.
We'll always need people who understand composition and perspective to layout good pieces rather than mediocre.
That's true - but most freelance artists barely understand composition. A lot of chaff will fall away from the wheat.
I'm sure those who don't have a stick up their ass will utilize it to great effect.
And of course there'll be a few con-artist types who are just spitting stuff out constantly for the money, but they'll probably be outbid pretty fast by art-gen sites and free Stable Diffusion self-setups.