The pushback against AI has been so otherworldly levels of strong because the current crop of gatekeepers realize that a parallel industry isn't only about to spring up, it's about to leave them in the dust.
The working class cannot afford basic art commissions anymore; paying some faggot on DeviantArt $90 for a basic line drawing, $150 to have it colored, and $200 for shading isn't a worthwhile investment for someone who has much more productive avenues to spend their money in. Especially if the quality of the art isn't frankly worth an investment of that size.
Similarly, the answer isn't just as simple as "picking up a pen" (read this so many times the past two years I want to take that pen and shove it up their asses) when you've got a job to do >50 hours a week or more that your livelihood depends on. Broke my back on bricks for 8 hours - what do I want to do now that I'm back? Rest, or draw? Rich faggots like Pewdiepie can take up art whenever they want because the worry of money is completely gone for them. Furthermore, not only do you have to be well-rested and flush with cash, but you also have to have a degree of innate skill that no amount of tutelage can bestow you that you can then build on. If you're shit at drawing at age 14, you'll probably still be shit at 34 because the development your skill should have underwent by that point didn't happen. It's like playing pro football (or any type of sport); if you're not good at it as a kid, you aren't magically going to become a god at it as an adult. The same goes for art. We don't tell football enthusiasts who can't even do a basic tackle to learn to play the sport before they're allowed to appreciate it.
Then there's all the other drawbacks that come with hiring a flesh and bone artist; delays, injection of personal political views, and the worst of all, flat-out rejection depending on what it is you actually want. Take something like lolicon for instance; regardless if there's sexual content in there or not, no artist in the Western hemisphere is going to touch such a commission with a 20 ft barge pole these days and will likely even rat you out to the authorities. So why take the risk? Just create an AI model in your preferred artstyle and churn away. Cut out the money-grubbing middleman and spare yourself the blowback.
Grey DeLisle's chimpout over that one animator who used a synthesized version of her voice is another good reason as to why so many of these fuckers need curbstomping back to reality and shut out now that we hold the cards, no matter how famous they may be. Where was this homewrecking harpy's objections in the days of YTP when we manually sentence mixed material such as hers?
The worst part is, so many of the chucklefucks who spread the biggest amount of propaganda concerning AI (such as "stealing" artworks - if that's the case, then tracing and sampling are also types of stealing by the same logic, or the supposed environmental impact it causes) are the people who stand to benefit the most from it. If you're already a great artist, there's no reason you shouldn't be seeking to maximize your profit by creating a model to replicate your style and rapidly cut down development time by letting the machine get the basic line work down for instance.
In the next 10 years, Ideas Guys will inherit the Earth and its many arts. And it will be infinitely all the better for it.
The pushback against AI has been so otherworldly levels of strong because the current crop of gatekeepers realize that a parallel industry isn't only about to spring up, it's about to leave them in the dust.
The working class cannot afford basic art commissions anymore; paying some faggot on DeviantArt $90 for a basic line drawing, $150 to have it colored, and $200 for shading isn't a worthwhile investment for someone who has much more productive avenues to spend their money in. Especially if the quality of the art isn't frankly worth an investment of that size.
Similarly, the answer isn't just as simple as "picking up a pen" (read this so many times the past two years I want to take that pen and shove it up their asses) when you've got a job to do >50 hours a week or more that your livelihood depends on. Broke my back on bricks for 8 hours - what do I want to do now that I'm back? Rest, or draw? Rich faggots like Pewdiepie can take up art whenever they want because the worry of money is completely gone for them. Furthermore, not only do you have to be well-rested and flush with cash, but you also have to have a degree of innate skill that no amount of tutelage can bestow you that you can then build on. If you're shit at drawing at age 14, you'll probably still be shit at 34 because the development your skill should have underwent by that point didn't happen. It's like playing pro football (or any type of sport); if you're not good at it as a kid, you aren't magically going to become a god at it as an adult. The same goes for art. We don't tell football enthusiasts who can't even do a basic tackle to learn to play the sport before they're allowed to appreciate it.
Then there's all the other drawbacks that come with hiring a flesh and bone artist; delays, injection of personal political views, and the worst of all, flat-out rejection depending on what it is you actually want. Take something like lolicon for instance; regardless if there's sexual content in there or not, no artist in the Western hemisphere is going to touch such a commission with a 20 ft barge pole these days and will likely even rat you out to the authorities. So why take the risk? Just create an AI model in your preferred artstyle and churn away. Cut out the money-grubbing middleman and spare yourself the blowback.
Grey DeLisle's chimpout over that one animator who used a synthesized version of her voice is another good reason as to why so many of these fuckers need curbstomping back to reality and shut out now that we hold the cards, no matter how famous they may be. Where was this homewrecking harpy's objections in the days of YTP when we manually sentence mixed material such as hers?
The worst part is, so many of the chucklefucks who spread the biggest amount of propaganda concerning AI (such as "stealing" artworks - if that's the case, then tracing and sampling are also types of stealing by the same logic, or the supposed environmental impact it causes) are the people who stand to benefit the most from it. If you're already a great artist, there's no reason you shouldn't be seeking to maximize your profit by creating a model to replicate your style and rapidly cut down development time by letting the machine get the basic line work down for instance.
In the next 10 years, Ideas Guys will inherit the Earth and its many arts. And it will be infinitely all the better for it.