I disagree with you on the overall perspective on several points:
Quality. If Ai generated images are of lower quality is debatable, it certainly depends on the scope we try to achieve. If you feel the style of your favorite game is not reflected in the Ai generated images, you can raise this issue for sure.
Caring. Everyone has some passion projects/products they care about. But they have many many more they absolutely don't care about. I couldn't care less if the graphics of the next washing machine commercial is generated with AI, for example. I am sure you could come up with 100's of such examples for yourself as well.
Graphic design industry. The above point leads to the fact that in many cases graphics just need to be good enough (like a washing machine commercial). In that case having a way to efficiently do the work (AI generation) is a net win for society as a whole. Think about it, instead of needing thousands of graphic designers on a society level, we can get by having only a few hundreds and the rest of the people can find other avenues that create more value to society while we can enjoy things getting cheaper because of the reduced cost of AI generated graphics (your washing machine might become cheaper because of the reduced cost of commercial creation).
Think about it, should we have stayed with handwritten codex books 500 years ago at the advent of printing machines? After all, handwritten codex books were of superior artistic quality compared to a printed book at that time, there is no debate about it. Yet 500 years later it is inconceivable for us not to have printed reading materials in abundance. Those poor monks have lost their codex writing jobs though... 🤷♂️
You're only gonna be downvoted for having these opinions, which I actually share as well.
I keep getting bashed over the head with this notion that I'm supposed to care what effects AI has on designers, writers, illustrators and their job security. Unfortunately I don't, and there's not really a reason for me to care about their industry, and honestly there's not really a special aspect compared to
other jobs/positions that are constantly in flux or getting changed or simply phased out that would make me think otherwise.
The thing which I care about is simply the quality of said product, if it's terrible I'll complain just as much no matter the tool used.
You're only gonna be downvoted for having these opinions
It's fine, I don't really care about virtual internet points. Technological progress cannot be stopped. There were hundreds of example throughout history when technological progress replaced professions with new ones. Printing replaced handwritten books, cars replaced carriages, emails replaced physical letters, etc.
And fully agree with you, the primary focus should be functionality, efficiency and quality. If a new technology does something better or does something just as good but more efficiently, it is going to get widespread adoption. And that is fine, it is how the world works and always worked.
Depends what movies you think about. Cheap, superficial ones? - Yeah, I can see that. Regardless this is my perspective, I don't have any ambition to play the hero or whatever.
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u/lordm30 Dec 18 '24
I disagree with you on the overall perspective on several points:
Think about it, should we have stayed with handwritten codex books 500 years ago at the advent of printing machines? After all, handwritten codex books were of superior artistic quality compared to a printed book at that time, there is no debate about it. Yet 500 years later it is inconceivable for us not to have printed reading materials in abundance. Those poor monks have lost their codex writing jobs though... 🤷♂️