Maybe it'll take time to come full circle on this, eventually we will. We are able to make perfect furniture and decor items by mass production, but what we now really appreciate are hand-crafted items. Photography + Photoshop never fully replaced painting and drawing. Prints are never as exciting as the original piece. The story of the artist is and will be what people connect to, and knowing about the individual who made the art will become more and more important. What would you connect to with A.I.?

"it feels like something what makes us special is lost" literally defines the whole thing

As far as careers go, companies don't care how we make art. They want it done fast, and done well. Traditional artists gain a selling feature out of it. People who buy art for the artist will seek out proof that it was made by hand. People who buy for the pretty picture, never buy from artists. They just download a picture and have it printed for cheap.

I’ve dabbled with MidJourney. It was fun and interesting but ultimately quite hollow. Part of the beauty of art is the human handmade aspect. People will always love and respect the handmade because it is imbued with meaning and purpose just for existing. AI art doesn’t concern me especially. I see it as a tool. What I find interesting is the intellectual property aspect of it. Essentially it is a collaboration between you, the person typing in commands; everyone who ever shared an image online and the software company, so who owns the copyright? Very interesting times!

I remember reading a book predicting the future of AI and the author thought when everything becomes automated the only thing the humans can do would be creative work but it looks like thats the very first thing that we are going to lose.

I think there will ALWAYS be a place for hand drawn work. We all want to connect to one another. Personal, intimate work is valuable to us as species who relies on how we emotionally connect with one another.

i find it pretty existentially horrifying as someone who not only gets so much of the meaning in my life from not really even creating artwork but learning to create artwork and the process of learning and dedicating my life and passion to learning how to draw and create, but also as someone who thinks the individual creation of art and learning the process of creating art is so important to humanity as a whole, and it does worry me that if the arts are even less viable as careers, we will enter a real dark age wrt art and art knowledge being collectively lost when it's less valued and goes unlearned by future generations. But, that said, it's also interesting to think about and see from the perspective of it being the creation of a collective consciousness of humanity, the creator being humanity as a whole instead of just one individual, and that's scary because no one can compete with that, but in a way it's a reflection, at least potentially, a reflection of humanity as a whole as a creator.

Through out the history of production basicly, mass production has almost always only increased the appreciation of craftsmanship and artesinal production. Where mass production is seen as an avenue of access to most and hand crafted desired by those looking for superior quality and standards. It can certainly broaden the audience for artists as an entry point to the world, and lead people, that wouldn't have been in the market otherwise, to new discoveries.

It's gonna effect the art industry, in a big way, especially for freelance artists, the number of art commission's has already dropped quite a lot because of ai art(for digital). But at the same time it could also be used to generate ideas and references for artists. Hmm, I feel like it will definitely have a bad impact for most artists, but it's inevitable :/. Oh and meh, so many ai artists are popping up everywhere, I feel kinda bad for artists. :/

Your art work is amazing and I am sure there will always be a need for it.I remember when the kindle became very popular,but it appears people are still buying more books than ever.I think there is nothing better than an original hand drawn or painted piece of artwork,especially for collectors.

Technology are keep changing....but the traditional things never gone change forever from a artist like you......big fan🙏🙏 keep going 🥰🥰🥰

Excellent 👌🏻 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a great day everyone 🌻

Seeing how good this thing is, people will eventually starts to advertise their job as an artist with "100% human-made skill and not software/Al generated work"

It’s scary, but it’s also because of its ease. Maybe if we thought of this as a humanistic collective artistic achievement, sort of a sum total of human creativity. After all, if we created AI, then it reflects us in a way and thus the images created by AI are also a reflection, although distant, of humanity and our creative visual history.

I think we're focusing on the wrong aspect of the whole situation, we see how beautiful an artwork made by AI is and immediately compare it to our own artwork feeling sad and depressed. The real point is not the result of the artistic process but why we do art. For me art is not the outcome of my hours-upon-hours process of creating something new, but the process itself, it's what I feel while painting, the sensations I get out of it, the satisfaction and the excitement that nothing else can give me. I don't care if a computer can create something more beautiful than mine, it's the journey that is important, not the end of it.

I'm just getting started in my career. Getting into galleries and shows, selling work and gaining exposure is already super competitive. AI being thrown into the mix is worrisome. I have to remind myself of the importance of my work. I'm a realist/ hyperrealist with some elements of surrealism that are often inspired by the symbols I see in my dreams. An AI cannot replicate the connection I have with the subject of my works, nor can it replicate what details I fixate on based on my perception of a real subject.

If I was to ever use AI art. It would be to create an image I have in my mind to then use as reference to actually draw or paint it by hand and then delete the AI work it created. Could be useful that way. But to use AI and print the work and flog it as original work is unholy haha

I believe that AI "art" may as well be one of the biggest cultural catastrophe we ever suffered as humans. I think that majority of people still see it as amusing toy/great tool and don't realise what consequences we will suffer in years/decades to come.

as an artist i can see the point here.. i feel it too.. but also.. there will always be a call for traditional artists.. i mean... as much as there always has been anyway.. people dont appreciate AI as much as traditional now... because it is so easy.. but at the same time it allows everyone to be able to create something they have in their head.. with skills or no skills.. but also it can be spotted from miles away now.. most can tell the diff between them.. i really think its not a big deal really.. its just another medium.. ive been a traditional artist since i was 2.. (im 51 now) and my hands are failing me (arthritis and tremors).. AI keeps me entertained and feeling creative in a way.. and can also be challenging ... altho it doesnt take a lifetime of honing our craft.. but art.. is art.. people appreciate the effort if they are true art lovers.. i dont think we have anything to worry about

Thank you for this. I really appreciate your ability to convey the complexities of the situation without falling solely into either camp. I think the conversation around this topic needs more sensible voices like yours. I had basically just begun to learn concept art and digital painting when this began so I fell into a weird space where I love the accessibility this will bring but can understand (a bit of) the massive frustrations that artists must feel. Thank you for sharing.

I love the process of making art old school,not computer art.At age 56 I do my art for myself and not for money.This is very freeing,for its in my sole to create an this makes my happy.AI should be its own type of art category.Your amazing and inspiring for all us human artists.🥰

3:30 new more fantastic… mixed media has just expanded. Reminds me of famous traditional movie actors who embraced doing voices for animation. Adapt, adopt, and/or redefine inside our headsets „What is my art to me?“ At least inside my own head.

RESPECT. I love the the mastery of Light and Shade. No matter what happens keep your skill sharp and your mind focused on what your creating and the journey will always be satisfying.

Huge fan and hope to one day get many of your pieces! (limited space and finances at the moment) Just curious -- do you ever sell the originals and if you do how much would one go for? I only have respect for artists -- as you said -- the ones who put in all the time and effort!

This attitude(to see AI as a tool rather than an obstacle) is what makes you a great artist. You remain my main inspiration to strive to draw better.

Thankyou for sharing an engaging conversation concerning 5he fast growing trajectory of the industry. ✨️

I have never seen n Pencil Artist like u..U are Really an Inspiration for us.❤️❤️..i really wana know n learn more about your Work and U....Truly an Amazing Artist..🔥🔥❤️❤️

Great synthesis of the situation. Love your honesty, vulnerability and openness.

I dunno Jono, I don't think YOU have much to worry about. Because you already have a name associated with incredible drawings. People will always want your drawings, whether they be originals or prints. You are known all over the world. Its the countless other "unknown" artists that are going to suffer most.

Your work is super awesome well done.

I feel it could be businesses more than the individual that would turn to AI. Producing that new company image or creating a world suited just for their product. I guess I'm only speaking as a portrait artist where I would value a family portrait from an artist much more than if my ipad and Canon printer had produced it, but, you're right Jono, this could impact so many careers.

The neatest use I have seen is a company that creates these incredible fairy/fantasy inspired dresses has been using it to help generate a concept and then they actually create and sew the dress.

I appreciate this nervous but hopeful perspective. Its how ive been feeling too!

I personally think we use tech in art also to make digital art and animation but the classic art form will be there. That is thanks to people like u sir who work day and night to keep ta art alive. I believe art is an idea which like a movie or song makes people think a bit. Tech will come more, maybe A. I also but i think it is a waste of time to debate on the difference between A.I art and classic and we should rather mix both to create something great. That is the reason I llike u so much sir. I see that u mix tech and art together in such a fantastic way that it really gives us goosebumps. The way u and ur lovely team make the videos it really motivates us to learn something about video making also. Keep going sir with ur art and tech. Lots of love from India to u and ur team. Best of luck, we all are with u.

Very appreciative for your perceptive and well articulated plea. Visual artists are now facing a similar problem to what musicians experience when they are rewarded with peanuts from corporations who broadcast their creation.

An interesting video buddy and definately something of importance in the future. There was a book i read once that spoke about a future in which humans didnt have to perform labour etc and that all work was undertaken by machines and humans were free to be creative...everyone was a creator or artist of some kind. Its a scary thought that technology will replace all the things we are capable of and render creativity obsolete aswell. Technology has already taken away so much of what it means to be human...i hope we can atleast maintain some creative arts and that human imagination is still held with some esteem in the future. Great vid as always!...All the best 👍

Jono,i love your art❤

Thank you for articulating what many of us artists have been struggling with.

Hi, I’m new to your channel I love your art. It’s very beautiful 😍

Its crazy how they’re sorta.. neglecting (whats the word i need here) art made by well, humans and relying on Tech and AI. But anyway Jono i love your art. Could you please do a video on your reference planning?

Thank you for posting this and especially on youtube. The fact that artists use their hands and their imaginations is paramount over technology. Technology has its place to help assists artists in preserving and archiving work. Yet when it comes to AI or the new argument what is art is. This help state the obvious.

Best line: " What makes you an artist is not how good you can draw but how good you communicate."

I have had these similar thoughts of late. Maybe it will be a little like digital art, personally I have found that people are less, caring, for lack of a better word when I show them a painting on a laptop as opposed to a painting or drawing I've done. Maybe because when we spend hours composing, painting, putting our energy into a piece it comes alive and its own life, do we feel that, does it resonate more? do we unconsciously sense the time and effort and passion?

People try to cope. But it's a gut punch to everyone in the industry.

The positives of AI generated artwork is the ability to not only flesh out ideas quickly but see potential different takes on your own work. Imagine the future of this being used to generate entire environments for gaming and cyberspace in VR and AR. This is a massive leap in a direction that artist will need. Nothing can take away your skills that you have trained for years, this will truly improve our work. The fun of art will always be creating it yourself however (personal touch). At the end of the day we love art and we will admire any beautiful piece.

never thought i would live in the timeline of "Detroit Become Human"

Me personally, I'd prefer hand-crafted and human-made objects/products for the current state of technology. You guys are definitely appreciated, and once the time of AI comes, just remember their understanding of arts also originate from the complexity of human's arts

Mr. Dry: you will never be replaced because you CANNOT be replaced. You make Art, which is a fusion of mind, hand motion, and most importantly Soul. An AI doesn’t have a soul. It’s an imitation of a programmer’s mind and as such is as spiritually vacuous as the electrons flowing through its processor. This is why Art MOVES people, and great Art astounds the observer. I’ll never forget when I went to St. Peter’s basilica in Rome and saw Michelangelo’s “Pieta”. I’d seen photographic reproductions many times before, but actually being there and “taking it in”, touching it with my soul through my eyes, I cried my eyes out. I can’t explain why, but it moved me to my core. You have that talent, and as long as you pursue Beauty, you will leave your mark on the history of Art - and humanity.

Fascinating insight.

Very well put. It is both exciting and terrifying at the same time. It is however just a technology. Perhaps the paint brush was as disruptive upon it's creation and all artists that were using mediums that came before were forced to learn how to paint but that is life. Money will flow from painting in to coding but also it will change the art world for the better as it may enabe young artists to dream big and not be constrained by a limited visual space, inside their mind's eye.

Beautiful piece ❤

I don't think traditional art will be effected that much because people will always appreciate the work, skill and talent that's involved. That includes art done using tablets and such as well. AI will have the biggest impact in commercial and graphic design studios and art departments, things like greeting cards, product packaging, magazine and novel illustrations, mural graphics and all other forms that used to require actual PEOPLE and time will be replaced by the immediate results AI makes possible. One person can literally do the work of dozens in fractions of time.

using such technology is not an easy thing. If you use a couple of words then your piece with come out looking like everybody else's who uses that particular tech. This current tech takes time. A lot of time to get an image that you are shooting for because you have to communicate in a precise way and order with precise punctuation to 'chisel' out the image that you want. Taking into consideration, lights, color, mood, environment and their placement. It is hard, incredibly difficult(for me) because it is like learning a new language and fluency is a hit or miss. It is, I think, just another tool to add to the artistic arsenal. People used to largely finger paint until the brush came along then that opened up a whole new way of generating what was in the artists mind. It became tool. Then digital came along and that became a tool that artists use to create different kinds of images. Now, this. Art is always evolving. Your art is incredible and I wish I could make my hands do that. But I learned by our art that finding my own way and focusing on that is what is working best for me right now because that is where I am at in my learning process. And that's okay.

I love drawing and physically making images on paper with my hands, using my imagination and my eyes, my skills etc. the only way to use AI art is if you have power to run a pc or whatever. Natural skills don't need that so I never worry about it really. I draw because I love the physical connection between my thoughts and the image I come up with. I feel sorry for anyone who claims to be an artist by making a bot create an image for them. That is extremely sad and kid of pathetic. BTW I lOVE your work its beyond words the amount of hours and love you put into each piece. THAT is the difference my friend, you are REAL. I understand your concern though....some people dont mind cheap art and miss the entire point of why its so special in the 1st place.

Amazing art work 👍

I think one of the biggest things was that prior to this art discussion skill had nothing to do with what made something art. We did not tell people that what they made is not art when they did not have the skills you possessed. This is a scary tool to most because skill is being challenged, but skill before was never the staple of what made art. You highlighted it perfectly with the painters upset over the camera allegory where they both were ultimately seen as valid forms of artwork. AI can at the very least open the door to an accessible way for people who previously had massive passions for art but werent able to dedicate their life into learning a way to now visually represent their thoughts. I'm a portrait artist, I spent years teaching myself how to capture a face and I'm still no where near a level I would like to be. However, just because I put time into learning this does not mean that I will deny others the opportunity to express themselves with this new art tool. When Oil paints were introduced it was considered cheating because of how long it stays wet, when cameras were introduced it was considered cheating because of how quickly an image was captured, when photoshop was introduced it was considered cheating for the image manipulation tools that it provides, and now AI is introduced and it's under the same threat of elitism we all are subconsciously holding against it.

I think this is a very honest and thoughtful evaluation of what disturbs some artists so much about generative AI tools.

Informtive video jono.. your works beautiful than AI . ❤️from India

It boggles my mind how some people fail to empathise and realise the detrimental impact this has on artists, hobbyists and professionals alike. It's robbing away income, part of their identity, and what makes them unique. Now anyone and everyone can "create" beautiful artwork in mere seconds by just typing several words into a screen. What was once impossible for most people is no more that it massively decreased the value of authentic human art. Think about supply and demand. Anything commonplace loses value. Of course it's a huge blow to artists who trained years (some even decades) to master / sharpen skills that they take pride in and set them apart from others... Only to now be replaced by AI that's widely accessible for all. With every new automated technology, manual labours are losing significance. Sadly in this case, the damage greatly outweighs the good for the ones caught in the transition. Absolutely Brutal.

Coming from the perspective of a Media producer (Video production) The industry said the same thing when 4k cameras became more budget friendly. Suddenly being a content creator became more accessible via standardized 4k cameras, lighting ect. Even this video we are watching now, could have cost almost nothing to produce (could have been shot on iPhone or $500 camera) vs $30,000 camera that is essentially inaccessible to most of the Populus. Ai art programs are a tool, its still up to the user to put their ideas into concept. Art at the end of the day is transformative and always evolving. This form of art, digital art specifically is experiencing the same disruptive evolution the entertainment industry experienced 10 years ago. KZfaqrs didnt exist 15 years ago, now its one of the main forms of entertainment.

Please, do the part 2... :)

As scary as this is, the consumer is also going to transform and YOU (the artist) will be the commodity. Some will buy any Art for $2 a pop, but YOU (your art) will become even higher in value because you are the prominence, your story.

Feeling lost and redundant with the emergence of this technology is a natural thing. Embracing it and learning to use it is also natural. These new steps of evolution can be valuable and insightful; these things, too. have their own rewards

Portrait painters also complained about photography in the 1860s. There is still a market for oil portraits. Microsoft paint in the 1990s did not abolish the market for crayons. What AI tools + open source software does is give every person even newer and easier skills to tell stories as they see fit.

As someone who’s currently studying at Art College there’s nothing I love more than being told I’m “obsolete” and I’m “going to be replaced”. People keep saying that AI is the future and this is inevitable. If we reach a future where everything that was once human about us is just machines and codes then truly we will have lost our reason for being.

Traditional Art can never be replaced by Ai unless a robot is invented and learns to draw as good professional artist.

I have been having sleepless nights thinking about the AI generated images. It seems to revolve around the following three questions for me. 1) IS AI image creation art? 2) Is there a moral/legal issue around how the AI neural networks sample copyright protected work? 3) Are there checks and measures that need to be put in place to safeguard humans from unforeseen consequences? It's good to see a measured response like yours and this is much more in line with my own thinking. It is way too early to tell what the impact may be. My hope is that AI and soon GAI will be seen as yet another tool for artists. Some will choose to use them and others will not. Ever was it thus. On a side note how wonderful it is now that much of the world accepts digital art as art. It's only taken 40+ years.

In the future, the conceptual ideas and emotive expression of the idea behind the art will drive the art market, and artists will have to get their values in check and find their voice, what is the message of the art. Programing the ai correctly to achieve a clear vision or even speak to the concept of a ai randomly generated aesthetic to fit an artists intent. I see it as a tool, like google images, it's the refinement of the aesthetic, the politics of those aesthetic, the concept, and so on that the conversation around the art will generate and with that the artists ability to own the message in the art. When the art is used to bring some kind of message or a set of values in an emotive and inspiring way, then maybe art will have more power to shape our futures through the art that reaches and inspires people, ai art on its own will be viewed as too overdone, but as a starting place its where we bring it as artists that will count going forward. It's already here, so we need to consider where we personally stand with it in regards to our own practice.

Well said.

stella Carol I am a artist in learning, this is scary for humanity the creativity that comes from deep within oneself , the love the passion of creation holding a brush , connecting with light and darkness the artists of old be it painting, music, poetry etcetera bought out something deep within their soul and spirit to create, I think all artists around the world should set up a website or whatever to authenticate their art as their own and not Ai, More control and agendas to control humanity. love to all you artists out there

AI can never replace real human made art.

I’m so PRO AI but what I will say is that work like yours will never be replaced. I’ve tried to recreate existing images by trying to describe them as much as possible based on what I see but I’m realising that some images are hard to explain in words and I think that’s where artists like you will always have an edge. Like the two examples you showed in the frames, how would I describe that? Even if I did, AI would struggle to truly envision what I mean. So AI is creating some amazing things, I’ve created some myself but I think the artist and design will always have that edge, that instinct and randomness that AI can never have I think. Your work is amazing by the way.

It would be nice to hear more about the way you use drawing for cathartic reasons

When the power goes out and the batteries die we will still have humans imagination and abilities with a pencil and paper, these items have been around for 1000's of years. Your vision will always be needed and stand the test of time. We all appreciate hand crafted, artists visions of the world. I can buy a printed card but a heart felt handmade card is a treasure.

❤ Your art!!

Great video. I've been seeing this discussion more and more with people advocating for AI art and it's scary. I think it's right to use the word "cheated" because that's what a lot of these programs or systems do. They cheat in place of real human participation. With the computer beating a chess grandmaster, hacks for a game or AI for art. You remove the humanity, the countless hours of sculpting, drawing. It's an actual problem.

The thing with AI art is that it can only learn from actual human artist/paintings which means artist will always be in need. This is only disruptive if you choose to let it. Art is not limited to human, as we see this with nature, and the universe. Art is subjective and always will be.

The images all look very similar and photo based, which is very different than traditional art where engagement with the “medium” (clay, paint, paper etc) guides you to new insights

Chin up Jono. It is for an artist as much about the journey and process as the product.

Great video. I like how you acknowledge that your ego is feeling threatened here but don't go berserk and on a crusade against AI art like a lot of artists are doing.

when people hear that you drew it by hand. look at there faces. thats when you know youre the artist. Jono you are a thru artist

Remember when artists told people to cry about it because manual jobs would be automated first? Good times

3:59 What a masterpiece haha.

I don't think the analogy to photography holds up though. With a camera, there's still a photographer making all the decisions. The composition is determined by a human, at the end of the day. With the AIs, machines are taking over that decision making process. AI is still 'just a tool', but it isn't intended to be that for ever. It's intended as a replacement. Do you think big studios are really going to continue paying for entire teams of concept artists, when the same work can be done by a single computer running some AI. In short: I don't share the optimism of those saying AI is a new medium or tool that will enrich the art-making proces.

Classic masterpiece never die

AI image making is nothing for artists to fear. There was a great fear among painters when photography was invented but people still buy paintings. Eventually some photographers became acknowledged as artists in their own right, as they used a camera more skilfully than most people could. So photography became a new art form alongside drawings and paintings, but it never replaced them and it did not lower their value. AI images are going to go the same way, some people already use the technology more skilfully than others and by the way they assemble their text prompts consistently get better images than most people and also have a distinctive style in their results. Some artists now use photography to support their work but still produce it using pencils or paint; Jono uses photos himself, so the one-time supposed enemy of "real artists" has become another traditional artist's tool as well as another art form. The same will happen with AI, some artists will experiment with it to help develop compositions and visual ideas more quickly, but the final image will be made entirely by hand and will still have the emotional intentions and style of the artist, not the style of the AI that assisted in its development. Yes, some people will be content just typing those text prompts, but the value of a pencil drawing is not going to diminish because there is a new way to make images. Eventually AI art will be another art form just as photography is, and some artists who draw and paint will use one or both to help them, while some won't. There are things we should worry about with some other potential uses for AI, but please don't anybody waste energy worrying about the image generating potential of it.

Jono. I respect your work greatly - there is obvious skill, obvious thought and obvious statement that, tellingly, evokes further thought in the viewer - and I don't think you have cause to be disheartened by AI's corner offerings. They are interesting to the eye, but they are, at the heart of it, substandard in thought and message. Have you noticed that, although the AI algorithms can make something interesting and compelling with good composition, they aren't making anything new? Without your art in the world, AI would never be able to imagine to make what you make. To my mind, each individual viewing the glut of AI art, they see thousands of artworks that they wouldn't have produced - as if the AI has limitless imaginative potential and that can be disheartening - but after you've looked at enough of them, you start seeing a pattern and the images have nothing intrinsically new to them. Many of them, although attractive, have such regular thematic constructs and stylisations that they border on the kitsch - they draw their constructs from the mass of art, not on unique art. Maybe all AI will do is weed out artists making formulaic work and push creative, imaginative, fine artists forward. The ones making actual statements in ways that push thinking and artistic appreciation in the viewer. Don't despair - I don't think AI would have come up with your themes, style and refinement - especially not the three together - and the only way that an AI could even imitate you is for someone to specify that it specifically imitates your style. Even then, to the keen observer, I wouldn't be surprised if that art came across as somewhat of a pastiche of what you produce. AI isn't producing intrinsically new art. I recently made a series of triptychs and I look at them and am certain that current AI's would have never had the chain of thought in the creation and be able to create anything near similar or even 50% of what I've created nor the statement and cognitive links between the pieces that I deliberately made. If you look at any artist's work and think that an AI wouldn't have 'thought' to make it, even with all the prompts from an individual, then it will hold strong as art.

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Just for clarification the A.I is not copy pasting anything at all, true machine learning understands the idea or the concept of a particular subject and reapplying it.

Interesting that Squarespace is the sponsor for this subject of video. I went to school for web development and that was around the time all these automated, boilerplate, drag-n-drop web design tools started popping up. I basically lost relevance as I was in school, I built a few sites for companies and person sites for people but now everyone uses things like Squarespace, Shopify, etc and I haven't built a site for anyone in nearly ten years. I think there are some things that are fine being replaced by better methods. Like web development for one. I thought it was a huge waste of time to keep recreating the same thing over and over while I was in college. During that time the 'hack' everyone was using, and even being taught, was to save specific chunks of code that do something, write notes on how to implement it mechanically, then copy/paste it to sites you build while tweaking the actions it does on the UI. Then we saw Wordpress, GoDaddy, Squarespace, etc and that was essentially just code that was repetitive across all sites being made with these services with small tweaks to the actions they would do based on what the user liked from a list of templates. Sure there's still some use for people who are good at web development in large scale corporations and mostly on the backend, but not for the average person with a start-up business, a portfolio site for an artist, promo site for a musician or something small, which is where most new/learning developers sharpen their skills. I think it's perfectly fine to get rid of these meaningless repetitive jobs like front end developer, which is what I did. So your job as a front end developer is to take what the web designer made with the customer, build the site according to the design template by copy/pasting tons of functions into a premade skeleton site (boilerplate) using the exact same techniques as 90% of all websites, then hand it off to the backend developer to integrate server side and add security features which is arguably the most important job of the three. Also other jobs like grocery stores using all self check outs, fast food replacing cashiers for order kiosks (this has been a thing in Japan for many years already) or other things that require no real human effort...obviously art is not a meaningless task and requires a great deal of human effort. This is why I think AI art is a fad for now similar to NFT's, though probably with longer legs. Sure some people will make money from it early on and that's okay, but I think most people would prefer to have a genuine piece made for them and possibly have the satisfaction of seeing it being made, ie; time lapse videos or accompanying sketches and color sheets as a piece of the work being made, kind of like when people buy animation cells. In the future I think it's really going to be more of a design flow tool for artists. The fact that you can ask an AI to generate tons of concepts that you can use for reference or getting ideas out of your mind quicker than sketching thumbnails is good for inspiration and keeps you in the creative stage sooner and longer, so much that you might have a backlog of ideas. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Another useful thing is to have it as a tool on the go, similar to a notepad. Maybe you have a thought while riding a bus or you're at work or in class. You open your phone, type in the idea (prompt), generate a handful of images and return to it when you have time so you don't have one sketch from a bumpy ride or scribble down ideas without a sketch cause you're short on time and later you don't even recognize what the idea was in that moment. This happens a lot in the shower too, but even though our phones aren't waterproof yet you can still use AI in speech to text to make a prompt for you, similar to asking google to skip the song while you shower. The thing about artists is that we're generally very out of the box thinkers, so finding a way to integrate AI into workflow is where it becomes useful and possibly even having it inspire you with concepts added onto your own thoughts and ideas that maybe you didn't realize, like; colors, backgrounds, poses, etc. This boom in AI actually got me back into art, because I never really thought about it as replacing artists but as a tool for artists to used like art software, cameras, drawing tablets, etc. This was all considered cheating when it first came out as well. Artists, musicians, scholars, storytellers, etc will always have a place because it's what makes us human and gives us a sense of true unique difference from the rest of life on Earth. Thanks for reading, and don't forget to leave a like & comment below...

AI is taking away from artists their creative and existential "midjourney" of making art: the distance to be covered, earned and enjoyed between initial thought of an idea and final artwork. It is increasingly starting to flood the creative market with AI created images, making it even harder for individual artists to be visible enough to financially survive . And lastly - AI MidJourney and other similar programs already are or are likely to soon move behind a paywall to create images - it creates a deeper division between those who can afford software subscriptions, and the majority of artist that don't, while Creative & art directors, editors, and others who hire the artists can pay whatever it costs. With AI the clients and guys in charge don't have to deal with artist anymore to get what they need to sell their brand or product.

You can't fake pride. You get to be proud of your work in a very honest real way. Those using AI art, cannot can feel the same pride or ownership. There's something special about pieces created with hard work.

Can I just say it: "This is terrifying!" Being human is quickly becoming more and more ambiguous and obsolete.

My frend we are real and ai can't overcome true artists

Let's imagine AI as a Human. In 2022, several supers CG painters born, their names are DALL-E2, Stable Diffusion. They can imitate any painting style in the world and paint thousands of believable CGs in seconds. Everyone can ask them to draw CG paintings. They sometimes produce very well-finished works. They are good at combining concepts, thousand times faster than human. We know that there are always artists better than ourself. Artists should never stop explore beauty. The problem is that people buy a CG from Artist DALL-E2 and claim that they draw it by their own. How stubit those people are? DALL-E2, Stable Diffusion, may give you good suggestions or ideas. Eventhough AI owners say they don't hold the copy right, will you steal others artists works to claim it is your work? And we should stop AI's owner to train AI by not asking the creators copyright. If you worry about your job , ask your boss.

I think it will make people appreciate what you do more

Imagine being dumb enough to take on life crippling debt to study art knowing full well that your chances at any job other than starbucks barista is near null, and then this comes out.

I see ai art as the next step of the argument “what is art?”. I’ve been seeing people online who a few years ago were slapping down opinions that criticize Duchamp, Warhol, Pollock and that guy who taped a banana to a wall as not “true” artists because their work was easily copied. The argument that their work took no true skill and was often just commercialized garbage was shunted by the artists who claimed it was entirely about the performance and abstract meaning behind the pieces that made them art. “Skill” wasn’t a factor in defining art. Now these same people are walking back and making these same arguments towards ai art, that it has no skill, _no soul_ … just random garbage thrown together by someone with no training. I think this represents a new step towards post-post-modernism, probably circling back to appreciating the skill it takes to truly make art. Or maybe Duchamp had it right all along in that art is truly subjective, not bound by the rules and definitions set by others.

Perfeito. Grande abraço Brasil

Chess is actually more popular today than it has ever been, even though computer have been better for 25 years. The chess players adapted and are using the computers as a tool to improve their skills, just like artists have to do.