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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
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turns on phone
goes to the clock app to set an alarm so I can wake up in the morning
phone sends a push notification of names and contact numbers
"Siri what is this?"
"It's a list of knocker ups you can hire to wake you up and are looking for new clients"
Knocker ups' comment on this story: "This is a horror story to a techbro and a feel-good comedy to anyone with a sense of human decency"
( from reddit )
In all seriousness though, I wouldn't pay money to look at pretty pictures. If I wanted an image but AI didn't exist, I wouldn't commission anyone. The image that I want just simply wouldn't exist.
What's the point of you posting that analogy? What's the point of your current comment?
The point is that there is a niche that isn't covered by commercial artists that AI image generation fills quite nicely, and complaining about it is like complaining that you no longer phone the operator to connect your telephone calls.
What niche?
moodboarding, design concepting, D&D scene setting/ npc portraits, making stupid images of friends that would used to mean 40 minutes of photoshop (and not everyone knows how to photoshop)
No-one would bother to pay an artist for any if that, you would either copy images from the internet, do without, or try to do it yourself. AI has just massively lowered the skill barrier for doing it yourself.
That makes it a commodity, not art.
That's an interesting distinction for something that would otherwise require an artist.
Ok but this is also an Ai that I would pay a 10 dollar subscription towards just to not have to hunt down what artists are taking commissions and managing prices and everything within the freelance space. I know it will never happen but God it would be nice not spending 10 hours finding an artist I like who isn't wait listing forever.
the basic problem is to have all artists who are available for commissioning announce it in one place and in a consistent way.
so it's impossible.
well, that is honestly a good use of AI scraping, to find disparate promotions and combine them
no use of ai scraping is good. now, normal scraping is useful, but not to get current information.
Yes art should be gatekeep for the wealthy. If you're poor and don't have time to learn how to draw, then fuck you buddy, my elitism is more important than your basic enrichment.
don’t have time to learn how to draw
You know, it’s not hard if you don’t think art = anime girls or hyper realism. That’s what it seems like all AI bros think art is, though, so that’s why we so often hear this strange non sequitur.
I like how you characterize broke people who can make things as “elitists” against the venture capitalist fantasy that works on plagiarism, and will be yanked from your hands once they stop pretending it can be profitable.