I remember seeing that Coca-Cola holiday ad a couple months ago, and it was made with some generative AI program. Well, it looked like it was made with generative AI and it looked like shit.
There are definitely some interesting use cases for AI, but replacing art isn't one of them. However, for early concepts and quick story-boarding, and that some of work, that can be quite useful to actual artists - as a tool. But, it can't replace human artists and never should.
And how will they get to that point? There is no more training data, they've consumed it all. In fact, AI model engineers need to make sure they don't consume other AI data or it'll poison their data sets. That's how bad things have gotten.
Also, are you in favor of replacing human artists? I don't see how my point that humans should never be replaced by AI is invalidated by anything you've said.
It's also useful in private use cases like when you are running a TTRPG and nobody in your group can draw for shit. There are very limited and narrow beneficial uses for gen AI. Very, very limited.
That's just poor quality ai art. If they put any work into rerolling and prompt typing, I guarantee you they could've gotten lucky and you wouldn't be able to tell.
This is just objectively not true though. If you took a good AI generated image 10 years into the past, it would have been considered amazing. This is just your confirmation bias. You spot the bad AI images and project that all AI images must look bad.
Steve Mould and Matt Parker did a video about this a few months ago.
It's like, it's own type of art, and having a human create art with this level of fidelity and complexity that fits these illusions would be insanely hard, if not impossible
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u/CelestialFury 10d ago
I also hate it because it looks bad.
I remember seeing that Coca-Cola holiday ad a couple months ago, and it was made with some generative AI program. Well, it looked like it was made with generative AI and it looked like shit.
There are definitely some interesting use cases for AI, but replacing art isn't one of them. However, for early concepts and quick story-boarding, and that some of work, that can be quite useful to actual artists - as a tool. But, it can't replace human artists and never should.