Why I'm not worried about AI ART
AI art has been taking the art world by storm, so let's talk about it. This is a super controversial issue, but one absolutely worth discussing.
I think the reality is that AI will have transformational effects on virtually every single industry, NOT just art. This technology will be regulated over time, but that doesn't mean that it won't affect us. Unfortunately, there's just no putting the toothpaste back in the tube, we have to learn how to adapt our art careers.
For those of you super worried: I think it's far from a foregone conclusion that every creative job will be wiped out. There are TONS of lawsuits currently being litigated on this topic.
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Should I make a video going more in depth on the AI art lawsuits? Let me know down below!
Yeah, tbh I don’t think it’s a good idea of ai art. This is just bc like people steal the art, and I think art itself might lose it self to this lol :p but yeah, I would enjoy the video if it’s made
Yes,please
Yes please 🙏
yes please, great video.
Yes, please!
I know this is a visual art channel, but let's not forget that our fight is the same fight writters and musicians are having
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and sadly, doctors, programers, ect. these companies keep thinking that these things are going to make labor cheaper instead of innovating and increasing quality.
@@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel no robot can replace the doctor (for now)
@@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel Software engineer turns into software manager because AI can do 85% of programmer's work. but manager shofwere still have to supervise and check the work of ai.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa ai is only good at somewhat writing code, it can't debug nor test code, which makes it obsolete as coding is the easiest part of a programming job
"And an AI can't be the best version of me" - But that's one of the major issues about the AI controversy imo: Its technology is *aiming* for a certain artist's distinguishable art style as good as possible, to ultimately copy them for commercial or showcasing purposes and make the original artist "obsolete", hence the replacement fear which on top of that feels more like an identity theft to me more and more. The thing about the pressure to constantly being forced to "adapt" is that AI will quickly turn into something, where "being fast" and "trying to adapt" won't be enough to be a serious competitor against this technology and its fast-paced productivity - and I'm being honest here, people used to tell me "to adapt" my entire life while I tried to find my way to establish myself somewhere in all the different job markets and in my eyes it led me to nowhere, especially since I have a handicap and was always judged for it. I'm glad that I eventually listened to an art senpai who advised me to try out a freelance art career for once since I always ended up returning to my passion of drawing every time when I felt so lost after a long period of a fruitless job. And it was the best decision I have done in my life, especially mentally wise since for the first time, my appearance, origin and especially my handicap don't matter (for clients) to fulfill my job. I became a freelance artist for different reasons, and one of them was, to escape the gross consumer-driven job world which primarily focus on "just to produce as fast as possible", where it was all about quantity. I think, apart from the whole hostility and arrogance emanated by a lot of AI enthusiasts towards us artists, a big reason for my intuitive opposition towards the whole "AI trend" is also because of the same aspects of the ruthless job markets I initially turned my back on - because of its very consumer-driven nature that mainly exists to serve as a maximizing fast and cheap quantity production chain for mass-consumption (+ the mentioned identity theft aspect).
The future is weird. I am a film production major and I am currently a teacher. Done many jobs in my life time… but at this point the AI is very scary. Not so much for me but for what I see for the kids about to enter University. After graduating Ai might be something rendering their diploma useless. Education will definitely needs to improve and change for their generation. ASAP. Too many useless diplomas still being given by universities.
The universities are generally VERY slow to adapt too. I'm worried for a lot of students in creative majors. Universities just got on the "3d art is the new hip thing" trend and they'll probably be the last to figure out that AI killed demand for a lot of their degrees as well. Thankfully the students will figure it out sooner than univerities and probably will just stop signing up for the degrees if there are no jobs.
If it makes you feel any better: 90% of what I've learned in my education is outdated now and completly useless. People will adapt on the jobs. Higher education is to a large degree overrated IMO.
You're correct that the world doesn't stop because of innovation but it does leave a lot of collateral damage. The older your age bracket the more you are impacted by massive industry upheaval. The younger you are the more time you have to adapt.
But ai isn’t the only innovation out there and the world won’t stop just because one out of many technologies stopped
My issue isn’t Ai art itself. It’s the ethics & method by which Ai art is currently implemented. Once it stops exploiting working artists & artists who can’t afford to legally defend themselves I’d be more on board. Give artists agency & allow artists to opt in or out of data scraping datasets, or compensate artists accordingly… that’s all I’m really advocating for at this juncture. And I don’t see a lot of ppl consistently advocating for the same thing, instead favoring the perspective that we have to just resign ourselves to the fate of Ai art without creating any real pushback. I know you touched on copyright & intellectual property, and you’ve approached this whole subject with a very practical mind (no doubt to keep your followers optimistic as well as realistic), but I do think there’s a part of you that underestimates why so many ppl other than yourself would choose art as a career. For me art can never simply be a hobby, even if that’s the most seemingly practical solution in a world where my artist job may lose relevance. Every attempt I’ve made to relegate my art to a hobby ended in whatever non-art related career I was in ultimately being consumed by my art lol. For a lot of us there is no other way… and we’ll do whatever we can to keep it that way. So when I see a situation arise where companies exploit artists by creating or utilizing tech that only functions by stealing the lifeblood of working artists in an already highly exploitative industry… I shudder lol. And I don’t understand why more ppl aren’t responding he same way 🤷🏾♂️
Maybe art communities should stop legally attacking AI art as a concept, and start suing companies that use disingenuous tactics to get false consent from artists, such as DeviantArt.
I think you have a lot more reasonable view of where Art as an industry is headed to than many other artists out there. I'm a rare dinosaur, working for a single AAA game studio for the last 20 years, and I've avoided 2 major tsunamis in the industry. The first was the financial crisis of 2008, which was an external event that no one could avoid. But the second one, the advent of outsourcing, was a real job killer that I really felt threatened to the point of "join or else". So I made my choice to learn coding, and became a pipeline TD, mostly managing the flow of outsourced art, occasionally dabbling in automation to stamp out any hopes of in-house art. I've witnessed huge in-house art teams going from 200 to 20 within a couple of years while off-shore teams grew exponentially. Now, we are facing another tsunami that's 10 times the size. I think you made a very succinct point about how the coming changes of AI compares to the animation industry switching from 2D to 3D. I clearly remember my animation instructors telling me, 24 years ago, that 3D animation would never go mainstream because it lacks that special human touch. Because computer generated graphics have certain sheen that turns people off, so 2D animation would always be with us as the golden standard of what "good" looks like. Well, little did they know that 2D animation would completely disappear within a very short amount of time, and no one would even think twice about whether an animation is generated in 2D or 3D. In my opinion, the same will apply to "artist generated" vs. "AI generated". Most general consumers don't care about the fine prints of "how" the art was created as long as they "like" it. When's the last time you bought a custom tailored suit, or custom made anything from an artisan? We simply expect those products to be mass produced in factories, and we have no qualms about consuming them regardless of how they were created. I think we are heading in the same direction for the vast majority of art in media that we consume.
I do hope more artists and workers in general talk about the way their work is being impacted. A lot of the public doesn't know how things have changed over the years and that's why these businesses can implement them so effectively.
Not true. If I told Grandma that her favorite art piece wasn't made by a person, rather an AI, she'd probably be disappointed.
Actually there's a lot of people of all ages that dislike most 3D animation. The thing is that there's not much they can do about it. Well some of them turned to old cartoons and shows, and others to anime.
AI can never replace artists. Art is something we do pouring out all our emotions.
@@8qk67acq5 Then we artists will go bankrupt. Not a big deal. Most of us are broke anyways.
Exactly! A.I. can't come up with a personal piece like Picasso's Guernica or ANY of the artists who do personal work bc it does not KNOW HOW to live and EXPERIENCE life like a human does. I keep telling mofos that it just makes traditional artists more important and valuable bc it can ONLY replicate what came before based off algorithms. It can not produce an original piece. Also, it can't ACTUALLY put down paint and manipulate it on a substrate or Bend metal like a sculptor can. It works in the digital space. Which as phucked up as it may sound, ONLY affects those type of artists instead. The rest of us as they say, " are GUCCI"! Whenever new tech comes along that has the potential to be life changing people always get scared and that shit spreads like wild fire. A.I. also won't be able to come up with the next art movement bc it lives in the digital space. Whatever the next movement will be it will be one where it's more tangible and a sense of style comes from it that defines that era. A.I. won't be able to do that without a master putting in a prompt to recreate that style on its own. I do see it cutting jobs but people will learn to adapt and pivot. They will learn to use it to their own advantages as well. Art is a luxury. It is also a way for the wealthy or any one to own a piece of PHYSICAL WORK and attain wealth. One is not doing that with A.I. generated art.
Ai can only create with the sources it has received from humans. In other words without artists, ai art would be nothing. Humans continue to grow and create new creative pieces of art. If hypothetically human artists lost their jobs and nobody made art anymore, the evolution of art would stand still. New experiences, new ideas and new art cannot be created by Ai alone. I find it impossible that all artists will die out with ai.
I’m gonna be honest with you guys The idea of losing my job, no longer being able to get one and just living off ubi and the pity of the government makes me so depressed… At that point people will stop Iiving and will only "exist"
there will always be work for humans, for example work that rich humans dont want to do and robots are to expensive for. Welcome to the new Monarchie.
thats odd. To me thats my dream life. It means i can finally dedicte time to doing what i actually want and stop caring about making money for food and rent
you can still do what you do, just it won't be job, simply a hobby. (as long UBI will really be enough for people to keep living)
You have ubi??? lucky
I already do exist I can have some ubi to improve it
AI art is soulless. It is glossy. Colorful. And empty. When I look at it I am always astounded over just how little the images stir mentally or emotionally. All the pieces seem to be there. Sometimes there even seems to be context in what is depicted. Yet I always feel zero inspiration looking at it. And I tend to know instantly when something is AI generated. All of it has.....a look. I cant describe it but there is a commonality in every piece I have seen. Not to get too metaphysical, but I can tell there is no real mind behind it. It is, for lack of a better word, dead.
You could also say it helps distinguish even better or mark the huge difference of what's generated vs what's created. Generated feels plastic and reused although undeniably gorgeous and "perfect" and we as artist, no matter how amazing many of us are, we aren't perfect in all areas whether it be in lineart, illustration storytelling, composition, painting or drawing technique and many many other categories. So, that imperfection is naturally part of us, and I like to think this is one of the many reasons why AI images are distinguishable from actual art.
@@Darkwatchable - Agree, its very obvious even if the so called AI Artist - edits the resulting image generated by the AI, it is still very obvious, too smooth, too plasticky, and most of the time anatomically incorrect, not to mention too many fingers lol.
I've found that if ai doesn't hold a plastic semblance, it almist resembles a dream. It smashes information to make an outcome the way a calculator crunches numbers. It's not aware it just does, very much like we dream and it's often random.
I can't fault anyone upset that their source of revenue through their art is taking a hit because of AI. Its so hard to be creative and do creative things when you are struggling just to survive financially. When AI starts alleviating medical expenses or something that actually costs a lot of money for humans to do every day then maybe I'll feel better about it. Right now it just feels like its preying on the vulnerable.
It already is starting to do that, that was one of the first things they explored and the main reason it was developed. However people have centered the narrative around job losses, ignoring the fact that we've literally found a new antibiotic thanks to ai and it is working really well against previously immune contageons! Which is *huge*, literally (not understating) life changing. The last time we found one was literally decades ago and that was when we weren't in as big of a crisis. But hey, who cares about disabled people surviving when people losing jobs are so much more important./s It's so much more important to worry about a threat that hasn't been proven to exist, nor be more than fear mongering and resistance to change, than solve current human rights inequalities that actually do exist./s
I don't get how people are saying "I'm excited about this for creatives. It'll help us to be more creative." Umm...like how, when it's literally painting and designing shit? I think it'll wipe artists out, or render us lazy to very little tasks.
real art will always be something people want just ai art is also something people want if chess was only bots nobody would play they use chess bots to get better just like people will always like real art but they might use ai art to get better
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Art is inherently social, i honestly don't believe AI art will supplant human art. It is always created with the player in mind. for context, i am a game dev. The player also sees beyond the illusion, and forms a parasocial relationship with the artist. after that, they have a zeal for their creation, and share it with their friends. No one talks about something AI-generated like they would Chrono Trigger. Even if an AGI produced a Mona Lisa - by virtue of _knowing_ it is AI-generated, you are divorced from the activity.
Doesn't that mean the artists exact idea of design isn't realized? So then AI could never be a tool to produce *your* art. I feel like that would peeve anyone that's seriously trying to get a specific idea out there.
As someone who has kept their art as a hobby, I regret it. Spending 11 hours a day at a job I dont care about, only to be tired, often only doing "Comfort food" drawing (just doing what I already know), it's so draining on my enthusiasm. I need to draw more, I dont care what it is, I just need to learn and grow with my art at a much faster rate than I am with keeping it a hobby. Planning on quitting come late July with a few years of money saved up... I really hope this future doesn't ruin my chance to draw for a living. I can't have this just be a hobby, and I don't want the strokes I lay with my hand to be automated away with a process. If it needs be used in the future, I'll incorporate only insofar as I'm not letting my catharsis be taken. The work will be done by my hand, not just to clean it up, but to bring to life from its inception. I'm done with the regret I've held from past decisions. This is why it matters to me, and why I'm going to continue to make a ruckus about it. That said, I feel like this video is a much more gentle and motherly take on Adam Duff's tough love dad approach; no offense. Lol
I relate so much to you! I also was that someone who decided to keep art as a hobby since I couldn't afford art materials and art school when I was a teenager. I decided to go the STEM route and recently graduated with a science degree, got hired in a construction company but was tricked into an admin job that was soul sucking. After 3 gruelling months I finally acknowledged the reality of my deepest desire to want to improve as an artist and to keep doing it for the rest of my life, and I left my job. I'm struggling to make money right now and AI just made the future look grimmer. But even with that kind of future, I'll do my best no matter what. The fear of regret is just much larger now than the fear of failure. Wishing you well on your art journey, we can do this!
This is so relatable. I'm in a similar situation. I was always just too afraid to pursue art career professionally, and now I think I wasted my life.
What I'm really worry about is the fact that anyone can make a good "art" image really fast. Instantaneously anyone can make "art". And because of that, Art itself will become less valuable. People will give less credit
My optimistic take is that it may make human made art more valuable the same way hand crafted furniture and knives/swords are seen as more valuable
It's possible. But there's also a possibility that human art will be more valuable. Kinda like how wood is a luxury in blade runner. Yet, we're in such an uncertain period, only time will tell 😥
I don't necessarily agree with that. Feel for the most part these A.I artists generally have the same vibe/style to it. It's almost ALWAYS a realism piece. I think as time goes on unique art styles will really become more valuable and important compared to someone who *could* make a decent looking AI image. Plus, AI images aren't as straightforward as most people think it is. Lot of the images we see are almost always edited in post after using their prompts. Only way we're gonna see how this will play out is just letting time run its course. We really don't know how this will be in the future, the fear is just HUGE right now.
@@sachini.yasasvi I really want to believe what you said. But the law of supply and demand ends up giving strength to my hypothesis. Product oversupplied has its value depreciated. About the luxury market... we also have the barrier of the nature of this market. Few are recognized as valuable luxury brands. Unfortunately, few will be recognized as valuable human artists. I think the chance of making a living from art will get smaller.
I think people look at it wrong. While an ordinary person utilizing AI can produce good artwork, a skilled artist utilizing AI can create pieces that transcend conventional imagination. Similar to how everyone has access to a camera, but everyone isn’t a photographer taking amazing photos. I think we may witness an abundance of outstanding art created by average individuals. Nevertheless, true artists will continue to produce even more remarkable artwork because of their expertise and experience. I think the bar for art will just be raised forcing people to be even more creative to stand out which is not a bad thing
I really like your approach in comforting people, as you point out that generated images or generated stuff in general isn’t copyrightable. And I see the way you see it. Human art will not disappear. However, I don’t agree with your comparison to 3D. It’s a different set of skills that you need, but you still need the basics in art (anatomy, lighting etc.). As for image generators, you need none of them. You don’t need any skills and you don’t have to do any work. Prompters simply think they have control while they actually don’t. The only thing you need is a computer and a keyboard. No need for studies in anatomy, no need to observe your environment, nothing because the AI did your thinking and your work. It’s like commissioning an artist. Communication is also done via text. Every person can use it and that’s one of the problems. If they were properly labeled as generated and not handmade, that would be completely different. People aren’t fooled and can decide for themselves if they want to look at generated images. This isn’t just concerning visual art. AI generators have been used for spreading hate by generating images, which show aggressive behavior of foreigners. I’m really glad that lawsuits are being made and I really hope there will be forced visible watermarks as a result. Especially one that can’t be erased. I hope it will also help voice actors, as they are forced to sign away rights on their voice. Or let's say: I hope the lawsuits help those that need said help. I’m honestly not afraid of AI itself, there are so many uses for it where it will be a huge advantage. Detecting cancer for example. I’m more afraid of humans, as I know by now what they are capable of. And tech bros are some of them. They are not your usual prompter. They are predators. And I really mean it that way. They are harassing and gaslighting artists. They don’t know what consent is and they will take whatever they can get. Unstable Diffusion was one of their projects to create NSFW deep fakes. And they were very open about using around 25 million of cosplay photos. Photos of real people. This is one of the problems that artists face. Not the AI, but humans. We were able to report them wherever we could and pushed them back. And we adapt to it. By fighting for what we love. Human made art will never disappear, that’s true. That would be horrible for developers of AI generators as they don’t use generated images for training. Only art done by humans. They rely on us. With that knowledge I raised my prices as I now see how valuable my work is. My art might not be good, but it has value. Each one of my pictures is worth so much more than a ton of generated images. Of course, I will continue to draw. It’s my life. But I will still fight for a future in which AI and artists can coexist. If developers had asked artists and only used their work WITH consent, I think this discussion wouldn’t be as big. Bruce Willis consented to training an AI so he could still have a career as actor and that’s how it should have been. With consent. There are also a few things you can do: - use noise in your pictures as this can disrupt training (developers add noise themselves to prevent overfitting, but you can use that, too. It already has an effect) - look for ‘Glaze’. It’s a tool that disrupts training on your style. The noise that you see isn’t the actual disruption, but if tech bros try to erase that noise, the quality of the picture significantly drops. Works good on details and textures. - look for websites that apply invisible watermarks of generated images to your art. They won’t be used in datasets as bots ignore them. Generated images won’t be used for training. Just be careful as resizing can already destroy said watermark. - change your language: AI ‘art’ -> AI generated images AI ‘artists’ -> prompters AI ‚art‘ generator -> AI image generator Because it’s not art. It’s just based on art. -if you are unsure whether someone simply generated an image, ask them to draw in a livestream or ask them for a pencil drawing. If they can't produce the same quality, chances are they just generated the image. Even digital artists can draw on paper. Prompters can't. Just don't go on a witch hunt and accuse artists of something they didn't do (happened lately). Those are just some possibilities to protect your work. They are not perfect, but it's a start and they are constantly improved on which might give us time.
Thank you so much for writing this out. What you said is so apt and true. Humans misusing the AI are the biggest issue. From falsely claiming to have made them to datascraping to outright producing propaganda- the very first step in dealing with AI art is to legislate it and be one step ahead of it when it comes to its misuse.
@@TheKaurK I'm quite confident that there will be laws quite soon. At least I heard that the EU wants to push laws within this year because of misuse.
this comment should be pinned! 👏
Thank you for for writing this out.
@@TheKaurK You still need prompt engineer to Made good art.and they can be paid 100x cheaper than you
2D animators were able to transition to 3D animation for the most part, because the principles of animation are still the same and the computer does not animate by itself. AI is a bit different in this regard. It forces us to redefine what art really is in the first place.
It reminds us that art is human expression in the first place. This is an artistically worthless imitation.
I'll have to disagree on this one. Art has never been something different than what it was meant to be by the "ars" of the Latin and the "techne" of the Greek. We have been in cycles where we as societal "patches" make it more pretentious than what in needs to be, but art is what it has always been, and we are going to witness how it can never be something else, although we are always trying to buy the latest ilusory definition. For a further insight on this I recommend looking up Jonathan Pageau and his talk called "the solution to culture". He also gave a recent talk for Scala Foundation Called "Art and common good".
By redefine I actually meant going back to the classical definition of art, by doing that we find out that the art in AI art is no art at all, unless there’s “sufficient” technical artistic input from human part to create the piece.
@@Crisofora_ yes, Jonathan Pageau said that the art is in the artist. Paint on a canvas itself is not art, but it is the artists mind on that canvas which is valuable.
AI: I'm not looking at it, reading about it, paying for it, playing with it or supporting it. EVER.
This video was served by an AI. The one Google created It went public a couple of months ago. Sadly, there is not much to escape AIs...
@@FinoClips Please take your meds.
The smartest AIs are the ones that don’t appear to be AIs
@@FinoClips KZhead has had an ai for years. So has mspaint Microsoft word etc everything has ai just because it's not the main focus doesn't mean it's not there
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Oh i definitely need your views on this. It's such a scary thing in the community. I'm glad more and more artists are addressing it
The problem is that we didn’t ask for our work to be put in the toothpaste to begin and they did it anyway. I can adapt, but rampant art infringement/theft has to be addressed.
this here. this is the thing a lot of people glaze over. It's not that we're afraid of trying to adapt - we adapt when we have to. It's that we were stolen from, and continue to be stolen from, if regulations don't come down to tighten data privacy laws. This extends beyond just our art, too.
*No one: Ai : ‘Your art and creativity is mine now, and you have no choice…’
@@ywlumaris The obvious solution will be for artists to stop putting their artwork online if that bothers them. Or put them on a site that uses a 'no crawl' tag so the images aren't scraped.
@@waltlock8805 that is not obvious at all. Even if artists do not post their artwork online, other person can still do it. People take pictures of everything and publish them without consent everyday.
@@waltlock8805 1) those noai tags are not fool-proof, and relies on data scrapers to honor them. (ie, noai on DA will stop DA's ai from scraping your work, but not LAION which supplies stable diffusion with their data set.) 2) how are artists supposed to network, build/find community, and have a career if they can't be online out of not wanting to be stolen by a corporation, or worse, their work trained in DreamBooth models to completely rip their likeliness so someone else can profit off them? The best solution is to have this LAION dataset currently out there, deleted, banned, and tighten regulations on how our data is collected and used, especially for big corporations.
You should be REALLY worried if you do art as a job but if you're only doing it as a hobby there's nothing you should be worried about.
i just went bankrupt........ im not getting comissions anymore. as an artist i used to make a lot of illustrations for websites/graphic stuff, but the companys, people that hired me now said why should we hire you when AI can do it 10 times as fast in is way cheaper. honestly i just started professionally about 2 years ago and when it finally started to feel like it was going somewhere......
You need to look for new clients or companies to work for.
Yup, happened to me.
I appreciate the comfort this brings, between your and Adam's messages I can gather a lot and center myself to look forward with a more focused viewpoint in a way. What crushed me the most has been the fact that I can't have inspiring conversations about art with people that aren't artists themselves. The eternal "joke" of the "make art" button. I'm 32 at this point. I've seen the shifts and remember welcoming digital media so much because I could just save money to buy traditional paint later and whenever I'd make improvements digitally, because of the constraints I would become more observant and focused and therefore better with my traditional. Those were wild times back in the 90's with all the changing technology around us. Now that's the factor where I worry. Talking to a person who I'm acquainted, not super friends but in amicable terms in general I got the feeling that they could not understand what it meant for me to choose where to put a brushstroke. What it means to me to evoque a feeling. They got so centered on the fact that they could sell something pretty to look at that I was looking at someone who was in my face telling me that everyone should sell their AI generated images because it was the same as I had experienced. And I wonder how this person couldn't see that I was about to break down into tears, the fact that they were telling me right there and then that I didn't matter. What I learned that day is that there's some people who can't put themselves into our shoes, its just a pretty thing to be monetized with us as the offering. Also I know that can be taken as if I really disliked machine learned software. Honestly as I heard Adam say, having a vast way of getting the exact reference I'm looking for is a dream so I think that that's how I want to adapt to it, as a way to explore and learn... but sell it? I wouldn't sell my perfect reference at all, because it's just a stepping stone to something I have yet to create, it's not a finished piece by any means. I am glad you addressed that we are facing competition already that can be crushing but I would also raise the question here: The person out there who became a prompter that has never had to learn fundamentals in their life that has their eye not to learn and have fun but to use the software as a means to an end. Do you think it's a good thing that that person selling their prompted work has taken away my chance at selling a commission or a print? Not that I think you think it, I can hear hurt there so its something we have to surrender to fight through. This at its core comes down to regulation. I do worry for my students from when I was a teacher, especially the younger ones, seeing how they could've just never come to my class to learn anything. I fear for them to feel regret. I fear for them to see that on top of fighting algorithms they have to fight greedy individuals. Not companies, not big rich people in power. Individuals. Those who had a choice not to sell something modelled after the vast web and in spite of knowing it (talking about midjourney mostly here) would call people who have spent their lifetime honing a craft whiny babies amongst other...not so good things. I had to leave the midjourney discord server cause the whole place is not moderated, they let violence dominate without nuance. I would love to see a round table platformed by one of you here on YT, talk to incredibly small creators and hear their situations with this. How in the global south, we have become the example of what a starving artist is like because if we don't get out of the country or get big enough to break the boundary of our origin, we just disappear. I know its a tall ask but some of us even, as is my case, became bilingual JUST to access the inaccesible. An industry that doesn't value the fact that we exist in most of our countries. So this, to us all down here, I *do* think its a major oversight on the part of many. At the end of the day I'm happy we finally have a tech that can revolutionize how we work certain things but I'm hopeful the world will regulate it in a way that we can enjoy it and people can enjoy it without taking for granted all the years we've taken to learn something. Thank you for your insight on things and being this my first comment I'd rather enjoy your channel and your conversations!
Thank you for trying to calm down those in panic over this, while also talking about the issues we face with it. I see too many in the industry just saying to move on and adapt, without addressing the serious concerns with the tech that are hurting people currently. I personally think it will fall out like NFTs. Mostly due to laws, and plenty of information debunking that this isn't actually Artificial Intelligence, and it's falling apart in many areas already. Italy has already banned ChatGPT, France I believe is close behind. This will likely cause a knock on effect especially in Europe. While they have not gotten to AI art, and things outside ChatGPT, Italy is working on passing laws in those fields as well. I want to be clear, we still need to watch this technology carefully. Push back when it threatens human creatives. Demand regulation. Support human creations. Etc. But ultimately we should never lose hope in humanity. We can adapt and change. AI needs us, AI can't function without tons of data that we made. Humans are wonderful and lovely.
The internet needs to provide a lot of free information to humans but also punish and restrict ai and bots with an iron fist
@myrb2622 I agree, we do need to watch this technology closely and push back when it infringes on the creative work of actual humans!
It annoys me when most of the arguments being used around is simply "adapt" because the people saying that I feel don't really mean adapt, they mean conform, give in to the AI and embarrass it so that way there is no push back and the thing some people want to happen, i.e. take over of AI, would then be allowed to happen naturally because no one's resisting. Fighting back, developing defence strategy's like Glaze, rising public awareness of the harm AI dose, that is all forms of adaptation, but I've seen some people on the AI side saying those are the wrong actions to take, but I think that's because it's not how they want the artworld to adapt as it goes against what they want. | In short, push back, don't just roll over and accept AI because people are telling you this is the way things will be now. Sorry for the rant.
Even as a consumer, it just sucks. AI art is a worse version of what we already have, while having a total parasitic relationship with the people actually putting the work.
I'm sorry but you have such a wrong take that is just "adapt or die" said in a nice way. AI is not like any other technological transitions, because it doesn't create any jobs, just takes them away. There won't be "artists who use AI", it's just gonna be AI. Artists who only draw for personal enjoyment, and never were seeking any money/recognition/etc, should not be affected by AI. They can carry on doing what they love. However, for artists who wanted to make art as a living that reality is going to get crushed and the only viable option for them is not to "adapt" but to fight it and get it regulated where it doesn't just wipe away every manual human art job.
I understand you but the reality is. You cant fight it. The technology is now here. It simply cant go away. Companies will find out what they can do with it. Yes there have to be many regulations due to what harm this technology can do but the best you can do is see it as new tool, as a new medium that you can master. Accept it and realize that you, as someone who engaged in regular art before, will have an advantage to other AI users who never really engaged in art.
There will be artists that don't use AI though. And they will see their work tetrationally more valuable. But they will be the TRUE artists, those few who got BOTH work and talent. The huge mediocre mass will drown in its own mediocrity, as always should have been.
I draw personally for my own liking, but maybe i was lucky, my employer does not dislike AI but prefers traditional hand drawn arts as oppose to an AI generated design, that's because AI fails as to what he was looking for, not to mention we do custom designs characters and some of his side projects the puzzle that has been hand drawn digitally, I was active years back and now i barely touch my ipad since my work demands more of my time, its not just the AI design has been taking over also the programming languages for the developers, I am also a developer and for me, AI is helpful on the programming language but i only use that for referrence because i can't rely too much on AI that would render my brain obsolete lol.
Kelsey, I'm amazed by you!! I'm 10 years older then you and, omg, you made me improve my way of working... you go, girl!! Love your content 😊😊
THANK YOU SO MUCH❤... I am a legally blind artist and everything you said is spot on. You are so absolutely right. The thing is history always repeat and we as artist always adapted just like I had to when I started losing my eyesight. There are always people who want things that are made by human hands. Also people love artist stories and that is never going away. You are right that we didn't become artist to be rich and famous. And their is always someone better then us. We became artist because we love it. AI will never change that. You are right that everything is so fluid. We really don't know where things will land. Still people will panic because ones again history repeats. I am not worried about AI because today I am ok and today is all I have. I am using this time to grow. Not to compete with AI or anyone else for that matter. I have learned that the race is not won by the quickest and the smartest but to those who endure.
Yeah I’ve seen tons of people say “it will open up barriers and make it more accessible” but art won’t truly by artistic unless there is effort and emotion put behind it
Thanks for this video!!! I’ve been researching a bunch of videos for a short film I’m working on that explores the concept of AI art, and the many facts, opinions, pros, cons, etc. about it! And while all the vids I’ve watched were great regardless of their stance on the subject, this one feels very much like a perfect digestion of the whole situation! I admittedly was also getting pretty anxious when doing said research, but this video (among others from my research) really helped put my mind at ease! Thank you Kelsey!!!
I like your refreshing realistic attitude. At the end of the day, we have to make the best of things, as an artist seize these tools for your own benefit,. Next time you're collecting references for a project use stable diffusion or similar to quickly iterate on your concepts & source materials. When you finally hit your brush to the canvas you'll have that whole great mental/intuitive process in the flow & all those unique references too. That's just one example of how this empowers creators.
I don't respect the idea of getting used to "Stable jobs disappear". This is bad because it affects mental health. Adapting should not mean sacrificing Healthy life. Humans crave stability as a natural need.
Agree, a lot of people repeats the mantra "change is necessary, everything changes it's part of life", and yes, in life change happens, but take a look at nature, stability is a thing too. Many animals need routine and stability or it causes serious anxiety and other issues.
@@Lii170 exactly.
It's just wild to me that while we're looking at a time when the entire concept of human labor is put into question people's response is to worry about how they can't be somebody else's employee anymore. Commercial art is dead, but there's an argument to be made that it wasnt "real" art to begin with. This is a scary time to be in but it's also made creating new things much easier. The thought of making a video game just weeks ago would have seemed so out of reach to me. Same with robotics or anything else that needs code. If people aren't looking into how AI can help expand the potential of their creativity then they will get left behind. But the great thing about this technology is just how accessible it is. The playing field is almost even right now.
Finally an artist on KZhead talking about AI in a nuance way and not clickbait “doom and gloom “ Refreshing
Amazing video! Espacially the last part is so true! We have to make art for ourselves, and nothing can stop us from doing that. We may suck at it, we may be the worst of the worst..but the joy of mixing those colors, the meditation we experience when we make those brush strokes... nothing can take that from us. It is personal and unique. Art should make us feel joy, enlightment and calmness. As a highly stressed out person myself, I find painting and sculpting to be the only solution to my messed up mind. No AI can take that from me or any other person. Thank you for your content ❤
Let's not forget that self-driving cars were a (dangerous) failure. I see AI replacing art jobs that used to serve hobbyists - like "please draw my RPG character" but it has limitations when you want to, say, have two characters fighting each other or something like that, like for comic book art. Zarya of the Dawn is a good example of these limitations, typically featuring the main character character in the same or similar static pose for pages. Although it does prove that surface level flashy lights and colors, such as we see in Midjourney renders, are more important than one might think, artists take note.
But self driving cars are still being developed. Just because they've only been marginally successful doesn't mean they won't improve. Better to adopt early and lead the field than be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
@@essentialasa5233 What's to adopt? There is no benefit to my workflow, apart from adding boring rote work, e.g., prompt writing. The burger-flipping of the future. This crap can't even take a sketch and ink it for you, or if it can, you have to pay Midjourney for a subscription.Yuck. No thanks. I quit Adobe for that reason. Furthermore, self-driving cars are finished. Why do you think the push for some success at *something*, anything? If it weren't for the failure of self-driving, the money wouldn't have gone to something else it could achieve, e.g., artmaking. There's a reason the first AI art aid to come out isn't a colorist or an inker or something else that's actually useful.
@cable pretty much
Spot on. You can’t art direct AI. Picky clients will want perfection AI can’t deliver.
honestly this is such a great addition to Adam Duff's videos about people reacting to AI, it serves the same message, and in the end I strongly believe we will find a solution we simply have to. There will be pain and suffering in the process, people losing their job etc. but we won't even stand a chance if we choose to give up just because the threat of AI seems to big instead of standing up for our rights to make this change ethical, like Karla Ortiz is doing right now, for all of us and we need this kind of fight to make a solid adaptation to a new change and prevent it to render "all" jobs obselete
I agree with everything you said! You are in your 20’s and I am almost 60 and we have the same feelings about AI and change. I love that. Even if AI takes over all sorts of jobs humans are going to want human experiences. I want both. I’m fine with AI doing all the tasks that I don’t want to do, like taxes! It can do that while I put paint on a canvas, listen to a record, yes I said vinyl record! Change is inevitable, I’m going to embrace it. There will be regulations and laws that will follow the technology but we just don’t know yet because it is still all unfolding.
it is a problem is trying to learn many professions in one lifetime especially in old age. It's easy to change professions when you're young, but in old age, it's difficult to learn new skills, and there's also age discrimination. Of course, this only applies to working for someone else, not self-employment. But still, it scares me.
Don't look at it as something scary, but as a chance to evolve. Evolution is a great process and you can contribute and be a part of it.
Great point about Disney and other large companies wanting to protect their art and branding. I never considered that and I would also like to hear your take on AI lawsuits. Great job!
Disney research have been developing their own generative AI tools for awhile.
@@joemicallef This. And if Disney wants AI art to be copyrighted, they'll just buy the legislation to make it so.
@@waltlock8805 yes… ultimately big companies will take advantage of the tools for automation because they can afford it
I hear you about change being the natural state of the world. The need to adapt is clear. As I listen though, I feel my age when you speak about having so many years ahead to change our art careers, creative practices and business models. I'm short on time at 58 years of age. It's one of the reasons I'm so grateful to be a subscriber to your channel. I very much need the energetic and insightful perspective you can offer. I've been a "work for other people" artist for my entire career. That has pretty much dried up for me. Last year my studio job ended in early summer and I thought to finally pursue an illustration career. Not having any background in structuring a business and having relied on employment to corral my work discipline, it is an understatement to say it has been difficult. Then AI came over the hill engines blazing. In a panic, I dove headfirst into Midjourney for several months in a "ride or die" perspective. It got too expensive for the short term, so I stopped paying the fees. I was also getting some cold shoulder push back from other artists in my circle. So, being back on the desert floor so to speak, I am seeking out other ways to reinvent myself. You are shining lights that are very helpful right now. Thank you. 🙏🏻 (l didn't mean to blurt out a book 😊)
I don't think AI isn't better than human art, a lot of it already is. The "story" is up to the person who made it and the consumer. The value is like you said in knowing the blood sweat and tears that went into it. And its ability to make people feel seen who feel unseen. I honestly think commercial companies will just lie and not admit they used AI to avoid copyright there's no logical or real way to ever really monitor or regulate it. It's not worth anyone's mental health to fall apart over it. Hopefully it does get regulated and isn't able to be continually abused but I wouldn't hold my breath ☹️.
I agree with you on this. As an artist, I have been using A.I. to enhance my artwork and workflow. I just posted a video on how I used an A.I. art tool to make my still drawings and paintings into video. Also since I do a lot of video editing, I am now checking out another A.I. tool to do quick greenscreens and weirdo edits. I think if we use the technology, like you said, we can be ahead of the curve. People love to see good art, but people love to buy good stories.
Thanks for staying positive and reminding us to work toward our goals. You are so right on not having the space to worry about these existential threats. But I understand why people want to just walk away. The idea of going from a working artist to 'something I do as a hobby' is technically true, but the fact is that you simply won't have the time to really invest in your skills. There would still be artistic growth, but it's not the same as painting 30 or more hours a week. Having to go from that level of production down to...I don't know, a few hours on weekends, maybe after work if you don't have kids or housework to do, is a really depressing prospect. Especially after years of working to launch to full time. On a more positive note, I liked your observation about the reason people patronize the arts, and that building personal relationships with buyers is a one of the things artists can do and AI can't. I also think that getting artists on board with cloaking software is super important. It prevents AI from being able to analyze an image for learning.
Thank you because I feel the same way and others are so distracted they don’t see what’s going on it’s very scary .
This discussion is actually underrated. But I would say Ai is created to replace us. Not just art, it would conquer transport systems without drivers. Robots for police, military, navy, etc. Even more intelligent robots in factories, businesses, companies, then in the government. All of these just in the name of human convenience, and then in the end we just played ourselves. If Ai is not managed properly, that's what will happen. Ai will merge with humanity. Ai will conquer us, if we don't try to stop the mismanagement today.
Only you can maake a 24 minute video feel like a 10 minute one. Thank you for yet another amazing and highly informative video Kelsey :)
It's refreshing to hear a take on the subject that considers a variety of possible outcomes of something so uncertain. I think too many people are quick to catastrophize or idealize changes in the status quo that may well come with a complicated mix of positives and negatives.
Hi, Kelsey! You've mentioned that you've worked as a freelance video editor before. Do you have any helpful tips on how to get work in that field or how to promote yourself? I'm an artist as well, but it's been really hard to get a job as one, so I've been thinking of pursuing video editing as a part-time or full-time job for now, while I grow and improve my art on the side. Thank you and love your videos!
check out YT Jobs and also watch this video here for more info on how I marketed myself: kzhead.info/sun/dal7eayihWNuq58/bejne.html
@@KelseyRodriguez thank you so much for your answer! I will check both things out and make sure to apply the info/tips to my current situation. Keep up the great work!
There are a lot of poorly conceived and patronizing takes on AI coming from art communities, so I appreciate this more level headed approach to it. I also value that your more optimistic outlook to the subject isn't as ill informed or naive as a lot of the AI cultists cropping up. Your political science degree definitely seems to have been of use lmao The subject is so emotionally charged (for me as well) and mental health is so poor in the US that it's hard to hold one's self together. We are a generation conceived at the brink of total transformation. It's like the uncertainty of puberty; we have to relearn what it means to be human beings while still surviving in the lingering remains of the old world. As a 24 yr old traditional sci fi artist starting to really break into my style, I would like to say that your videos have been consistently motivating. It's so important to surround yourself with fellow artists, because facing uncertainty together is what humanity is all about, all else be damned.
You made a great point when you said the point is get better for you. I would also say that artwork should be an emotional journey and that doesn't come from outsourcing the process.
I love ur channel! You litterally motivate me to draw :D
My take about this AI craze is surely it will flood the market, whether art, music, copy writing etc. But the good side, collectors will crave for original art now its going to be owning a rare original art.
Totally agree with you on basically all points! As an artist, I am completely okay with the ai art technology. My only concern is people using it to plagiarize the artwork from real artists. It's a rough time right now for those of us that are getting their art stolen, but there will always be art thieves. We just have to hope new laws around the use of ai generators will be put in place, and keep making art.
real art will always be something people want just ai art is also something people want if chess was only bots nobody would play they use chess bots to get better just like people will always like real art but they might use ai art to get better
thank you for the video. I personally am too tired to discuss with others about this topic. but your words are very comforting.
Just wanna say this is the most sensible, realistic and optimistic view on AI art I have seen. You make a lot of very good points. I agree with you that human emotion and endeavour will be valued more in the future. I'm already seeing in certain expensive shops selling local handmade art for way more than mass produced items. I think it should be used as a tool to help artists achieve their ideas quicker than ever.
im an artist and i know about ai and we are about to have agi smarter than all human and the transition will be so nasty, i think we need start to think how to adapt and merge with ai to become super artist thats even studios with ai tools will not have the same results as some great artist working with ai
If artists get better, surely a.i gets better? :(
AI can only be as good as the best artists it was trained on and it doesn't produce art anyway. It's artistically worthless imagery. Stolen training data too. Why would anyone pay for AI generated images they're as meaningless as having conversations with AI.
Wonderfully intelligent insight! And as an older person, when PhotoShop came out in the early 90s, i remember vividly, some people smugly saying... well, now a computer can do what you do, your job is gone. What will do do now??? Grinning away... and look how that turned out over the last 30 years... 😂😂
Thanks for such an encouraging video. I was starting to get into art again and then I start hearing about this AI stuff and it had me shook up, but I really appreciate your take on things.
Thank you for this - the more balanced and considered takes on this topic the better. And thank you for restating that not every aspect of a person’s creativity needs to make money to be worth spending time on.
The big difference is that the industrial revolution took 100 years to fully kick in. This change is going to happen in 10-15 years if that. The massive disruption of labor at this large of a scale in that short of a time its going create years of human suffering as society try and figures out a solution (like basic universal income).
I feel like I'm in the minority that uses AI to assist in my traditional art. I never claim the AI generation as my final "art" and instead use AI for generating reference and inspiration material. I (as well as many artists) already use Pinterest and the like for reference while trying to create something original from that. AI has also helped me get over creative blocks, using AI to write story prompts for characters/settings. Generating 'new' images/ideas for the sake of inspiration and reference have helped make me faster and more efficient
Yes, I use it as well slightly as a designer, during my day job. In that sense us useful for generating rough ideas. I hope traditional art gets higher value as result. Photography took portrait artists out of job for awhile. Some became photographers. But both cohexist nowadays. We need to adapt.
congratulations, you're absolutely using it as it was intended. it's a tool ultimately.
Aw, thank you Kelsey. I started watching your videos this past winter. I love the last part of the video where you encourage us all to keep creating. I truly feel when it comes to art and AI- it's up to the consumer. Consumers determine value and it's having art made by humans means there's emotion and realness. AI doesn't can't replicate human divineness. I read a commentary on AI and art.. it said that art has to do with our limitations, frailties, and faults as human beings. Ai doesn't have limitations, therefore can't inhabit the true transcendent artistic experience. It was nothing to transcend! AI has no soul. We are living in times where people crave connection more than anything
I recently started doing watercolors, purely because I always wanted to learn it. Will I ever able to monetize it, don't think so, but will this bring me joy, it already does. so purpose served. But, the people affected by generative AI is not me, the people who monetize their art and now can't anymore, cause AI can generate it better than them. And everytime a new thing/tech disrupts any industry these are the people get impacted most, who are not exceptionally skilled, but could to generative work. Exceptionally skilled and talented people will survive, but mediocre and less than are the one will end having to find new option. I also like your point on IP protection from corporations. I would love to see what they are going to do next. PS. I absolutely love your resume! coool!!
I loved - in a grimly chuckling way - the part about existential risks and emotional exhaustion. Big mood.
Very reasonable take and insight from you, Kelsey. I think if you're an artist by passion, you have no choice but to create, regardless of what tech arises while obviously being open enough to adapt and change (if need be)
real art will always be something people want just ai art is also something people want if chess was only bots nobody would play they use chess bots to get better just like people will always like real art but they might use ai art to get better
Thank you so much for this conversation. I hope you don't mind I feel compelled to chime in. Can AI commoditize human connection - I think that would be a long stretch and put us into the realm of legit dystopian outcomes. And to me that feels so far away emotionally and logistically. How we input concepts and ideas into AI tools will become an entire industry. Consultants, thought leaders, visual artists and more who embrace AI will capitalize on the commodity that is the human brain and it's irreplaceable ingenuity.
Thank you. I come to KZhead once in a while and take a look. I used to be a character designer for platform games, but now I work in a restaurant because artificial intelligence replaced me, but now I'm very happy. I made new friends and go out on the weekends. We go and have fun. The world has not come to an end and there are many artists like me. One of my friends tells me to live for yourself and be an artist for yourself.
ai will not stop me from drawing cute anime girls
i have a feeling some group of people or some companies develop this AI that could make art since 20 years ago ( or even more ). since they need to gather millions of images so the AI could adapt with them and make perfect output. it purpose to kill creativity and free thinking, im not conspiracy theorist but this this AI that could draw, make script, make a song etc suddenly came out of nowhere at the same time.
Disney is developing this tech: they have an ai that turns scripts to storyboards
@@joemicallef explains why it sucks
I think you made a lot of thoughtful points in your discussion. The thing that worries me the most is how uncertain things feel. As AI continues to improve, we don't know how much it could affect various industries and whether it will put tons of people out of jobs (especially art). But it shouldn't stop us from pursuing our passions 🙂
I think that uncertainty will fade over time as things resolve themselves but it’s absolutely scary! I definitely feel you. I think personally I’ve grown very accustomed to a lot of uncertainty that I have a higher tolerance to it that most or something? But as long as we keep making stuff and having fun with it I feel like we’ll be fine 💗
A person I only knew for a short while but was very dear to me was another artist who was in his 90s. We connected with art studies and he told me of his time studying in Rome the traditional and classic painting and sculpture methods. He got to use ancient Roman sculptures and paintings as references and mostly painted everything in oil. One trip to his house I told him I wanted to show off my new tablet PC that I use to paint digitally. Despite his very classical and traditional background he was quite enthusiastic at the proposition of painting on a screen. He messed around on my tablet for at least an hour, color picking, painting thumbnails, testing the brushes, and just having a great time exploring. Halfway through his exploration of this new medium he started to cry. I went over and asked him what was wrong. He told me, he was sad he didn't have more time to learn this new way to paint. He knew he wasn't long for this world and I had just showed him a brand new way to think and apply his skills that he didn't have time to master. I gave him a list of free programs and told him to download them on his computer (he had a decent one to run them). He spent his final days painting a new acrylic painting for his daughter and exploring a new landscape of possibilities with digital media. He was right, he never had the the me to master it, but I learned a hard lesson watching him in his twilight. I want to be him on my last days. I never want to be afraid of new things. AI art doesn't scare me, I'm enthusiastically waiting until I can add it to my workflow, even if it takes until I'm 90 for it to work well.
This video was really comforting, thank you so much ❤ i'm less scared now
I completely agree - it's comforting that this is not just an artist problem, but a humanity problem. You explained it better than I did, though. lol
Sooo uncanny. I reflected on this and i've concluded to this same point of view for very similar reasons. I don't know how anything could ever want someone to stop or not start on their artwork. Times change and they always have, let us not have it interfere with our love of art
In response to what you said at the 8:51 - 9:10 mark: I think the best way for us to become irreplaceable is to leverage more of ourselves and our human stories. For instance: When I look at Wayne White's work, I see Wayne White, and that's what makes him and his work valuable to me. If a robot could replicate the work of Wayne White, I still would prefer the real Wayne White because his story/personality resonates with me way more than a robot ever could.
I like the way we're sitting here talking about AI, the threat of replacing everyone with robots. and I haven't been able to leave the house for a week, because seas have formed around my house due to melting snow. Very contrasting and interesting Well, in general, for 2d animation, almost nothing is done in terms of AI for relaxation or replacement at all. Intermediate colors often look terrible, and there is no question about such things as autofill colors or shadows at all, and that's it well, in a simple illustration - I just went to KZhead, drove in both the art and the most viewed one this week - and you will just immediately understand the target audience and those who use it massively. You won't believe what's out there (sarcasm) well, yes, if everyone is replaced with AI, then let the firms be ready that no one except AI will be able to pay taxes and buy goods that were produced with it help well, let's be honest, most of it doesn't look like much. in terms of yes, the render is cool, but the composition (especially complex with a large number of characters and their interaction) is almost there, or is it just a bunch of girls who are standing, looking at you with an empty face and some kind of debauched pose or just standing to each other, ХD partly I think that digital artists will move into a similar category as traditional artists and we will all be called traditional, huh
I liked the way you see this . I definitely agree , like really , worrying is not constructive . So why can't we just try our best to improve ourselves, our creativity and our products ? Thanks for the video
AI doesn’t do stuff on its own. It’s still going to take a person who understands how to prompt it in the right way to get the desired result. We will still need artists & writers who understand communication through images and storytelling IMO.
15:16 that was a gold statement right there. Hey you dropped this 👑
I don’t normally find hope on KZhead, but here we are thanks for the breath
I think the comparison is still wrong, because you're comparing a medium that offers an advantage to s TOTAL REPLACEMENT, which is what AI is. Cars and trains are all methods of transportation, but they don't self-drive, they didn't fire everyone. This isn't a tool, it was never meant to be a tool.
How did you cartoon yourself on you thumbnail?
U literally spoke my mind girl... But yeah in the narrow perspective of things we still gotta be vigilant about how we have a 'monetised skill' any given day..
AI is a very young field, started in te 50’s with Lisp, but hadn’t really advanced until recently with machine learning type stuff that’s everywhere, this is from what I understand completely different to the 50’s AI research.
OMG you just said everything I’ve been thinking…..except you’re just a lot more articulate. 😆 Thanks for putting this out there.
Thank you so much for saying this. Ive been trying to say these things to people and it always comes off as me brushing their legit concerns off. You word it so great and I really appreciate that I'm not alone and that I also have a great resource to link people to.
Now the final decision will be in consumers or client's hand . Personally I think great artists will be survive . Just as most web dev I known who keep getting jobs in world full of ready to use templates and cheap solutions
I agree that more female artists the history and their work is something fans of the channel want to see a lot more in upcoming videos I am requesting it to happen .
This is the most intelligent video about AI art I have watched. Well done.
I'm 49. I've been an artist for 27 years. I came in when rubylith and clip art cds were around, and a lot of design firms didn't have computers or were just embracing them. When I was younger, it was a challenge to adapt and learn more, but the older I get, the less of a reality that constantly learning new skill sets at the rapid pace that advances more and more every year, every month. AI has the incredible capacity to render jobs irrelevant at a faster rate than people could reinvent themselves. Americans in general are comfortable, unfortunately. Massive changes won't happen, because a lot of people will do nothing until they are affected directly. In the last year, companies like Hallmark, Hasbro, Microsoft have all laid off creatives and varied staff to save money, to reinvent the corporate structure to benefit shareholders. And speaking to people liking new things, or entertainment, yes, that's all true, but even worse than working are shows and conventions and hearing comments that art is overpriced, or that hand made is simply too expensive. Will there be aspects that allow for human created items to be valued? Sure. But the truth is that corporations run our lives. To a deficit and an unfortunate necessity. A.I. is in it's toddler stage, technology jumps in leaps that are impossible to keep up with. When it finds maturity, refinement, and has full corporate investment behind it, the idea that an artist could make a living would be a rarity. We would literally become the horse, a rarified item for those who care, who have space, and for who would value it.
this was a comforting take on a very difficult and scary subject. Thank you. We do at the end of the day have to understand why we are creating art and what it means to us. If anything, the question of AI really brings this question into focus. We must at our core know why we love to create art. Even with AI art being generated, we will still be able to move our hands to draw, we will still be able to use our minds and create, and we will still be able to find artists and creative people in general who are keeping their medium alive. And if anything, we will be all the stronger for it because we'll be keeping those values together. Its unwise to begin creating art to please other people, and likewise allowing something else to decide whether or not you make art. Make art for yourself first. And if you do need to draw for other people, there will always be those willing to fight for human creativity, for people looking for *you* and not a machine. Being human with an unpredictable unique experience gives you an irreplaceable value that makes you leagues different from an AI that can be predictably programmed. People think that AI will allow them to think outside of the box, but AI are in the box. You're not. Bring that to the table, bring all of yourself. Don't allow AI to dictate our creative fields, make your presence, be as creative as you can possibly be.
Thank you Kelsey for putting this out. Very sensible points that helped settle me and possibly lots of other artists.
I'm very skeptical about A.I. , just because of how good they can really be. Automation is supposedly assist us, not replace us. The difference between the past & now is that, at the past, it assisted us. For now, AI is still assisting us, but there are more & more people that are developing it step more & more towards having AI replacing us. Which is depressing.
Thank you for this video! It's refreshing to have your positive attitude amongst so many negative ones (mine being negative too!) I've thought a lot about UBI too. If AI replaces a certain percentage of jobs (like half or more maybe, across job industries) governments will HAVE to implement some form of UBI. You can't have a capitalistic society that's based off of people making $, when people just can't make $. Another person commented somewhere below wondering if the UBI will be enough - and there's another problem. It probably WON'T be enough. If the govt controls how much $ we get, they control almost every aspect of our lives - where we live, what kind of apt or house we have (if we own it at all), what we eat, how much we eat, and more. I wish I could be more optimistic. But I appreciate your youthful hope for humanity and creativity!
Yup its the same like those draftsman... Drafting plans in a drawing board.. But now you can do floor plan in computers much faster.. Now in phone.....now I can render house perspective in phone... Or tablet...
finally an artist who is articulate and a great artist to boot!
Valuable thoughts, and told with such stunning charisma. Thank you.
Thank you for your words Kelsey 🙏🏻💕
This is the most constructive approach I've heard so far, thank you Kelsey!
You are brilliant! Thank you for sharing your opinions on this subject.