For those not in the know, it's like DALLE-2, but you can run it locally without the filters.
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Learn to code, lol.
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Copilot is comin' for that bussy, codecel!
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Copilot is gonna trigger a billion and one lawsuits from it copy pasting code
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Best part of that is going to be watching web developers literally get automated out of their high paying jobs in the next 20 years (or less). Not that I'm pooping on web developers, I do enough of that in my job, but if developers think AI can't do their job sooner or later, they're fooling themselves. In the future, you're going to have to possess a skillset that makes you more than a replaceable cog.
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In the low AI near-future, corporations are going to be looking for people who have a lot of skills and talents and can effectively use AI as a force multiplier on those existing talents to do the jobs of several different people
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This is basically already reality, and it's why good software developers get paid so much. If anything, the top ones are underpaid. A few good software developers can do the work of thousands of morons.
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Web dev is 1% difficult network work, 9% tedious infrastructure wrangling, and 90% listening to some MBA Ideas Guy explain his really cool feature and then implementing it.
I am prepared to believe AI can do this, but I haven’t seen an AI that can understand a small child, let alone turn unstructured midwit business drivel into code. When that shows up, webdev will collapse, but not sooner.
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You barely need to automate web dev considering most of it is just copy and paste. The reason why it's difficult to automate is probably due to web dev tools being absolute dogshit. Frick npm and let all its contributors die in a horrible Minecraft fire.
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If you make something good and can sell it you will still make money and cannot be replaced by an AI. A comic book (or regular book) can be written by one dude and sell 10 thousand copies and its a living. If you're an artist and you make a painting, the existence of AI will not stop some random eccentric rich dude from buying your masterpiece at an auction.
Your replacability is a concern only because you have unmarketable skills on your own, you literally only have value when a corporation is obfuscating your contribution and selling your work under their label. You deserve to be replaced.
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As a TOXIC artist, this doesn't bother me at all, because I see weaknesses in 80% of "impressive" AI art and the other 20% is usually simple or something overdone
Like how the best stuff these models do, is often the most GENERIC artstation compositions of all time (standard concept art layout #42 using palette #5 but with a bit less depth and inspiration than usual), and low complexity anime characters in generic poses
I saw a twitter thread where artists were bawling over some DALLE2 (non mini) art example and I'm like "It's not... that good? Or complex? Not one of you can get out an easel and sketch something similar to the same moody pictures with pastels in about 20 minutes? You don't think about wishing you had your own AI, so that you can use an image as a base and draw something badass into it, in a way that matches the style, saving time?"
Unfortunately, most twitter artists are not competent enough to synthesize multiple sources, or do anything like style matching and not have it look like drawn on stickers. They never reached a point to where they can mentally break down an image they are looking at, they just feel awe and intimidation at the whole.
I get feeling intimidated at the amount it can generate, but the amount of "I COULD NEVER DO THAT" undertones I see in many AI discussions is really surprising. Even if you can't make that kind of thing now, doesn't mean you can't at some point, right? It often feels like the most vocal ✨artists✨ online are people who learned enough about art to make 10 differest poses of animesque characters with slight variations and called it a day, made some minor changes every 2 years since 2016 to their "style", but it wasn't changes because they got better at any fundamental of art, they just saw another set of eye designs on pinterest and decided it looked cooler and they were tired of drawing the previous design the same way for two years.
This is why I mostly consume art content and advice from literal boomers on youtube and obscure forums, using traditional media, even if I'm often using digital. I'm banned from multiple art groomercords for giving people advice on how to improve, without express consent.
"pls tell me what u think" is not consent
what I miss the least about art classes was "INFRINGEMENT OF SMALL ARTIST" spergs and that guy who would not shut up about 1 hour of [blah] music youtube channels stealing images from artists without consent. It's not that he wouldn't shut up about it, it was that he was so angry that the air looked like it was going to heat up around him and shart making shimmering waves. It wasn't even his art! It was the idea that one day he might be good enough to have his art stolen by a 1 hour of [blah] music youtube channel!
my art has been infringed by random chinese people on aliexpress (low bar, I think they are using bots now to make print on demand listings???)
do I care?
no not really
I'll just make more
also I learned to code
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Posts like this is why I do Heroine.
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The real artists most affected by this are furry artists, they get $500 commissions for some personal fursona that can now be shit out by an AI.
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Guaranteed these same people would cheer watching the government destroy the oil and gas industry, that is actually a useful profession and employs countless people. No fricks given.
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Does reportmaxing work there? Someone try for the lulz pls
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Yeah because its a chill job which barely qualifies as real work
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Get that border-line neet! Kick his butt!
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If art is a chill job, you're doing it wrong.
You're probably in a cycle of rehashing your art over and over and not constantly challenging yourself and improving.
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Unless you work for a company and have a schedule, being an artist isnt a real job. Cope and seethe.
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What if I'm a bussy artist?
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who hurt you
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me too u have no idea
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