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People kept telling me in high school that I shouldn't go into radiology because AI would replace it. I'm a radiologist now and the AI lung and mammogram nodule finding tools are still far from accurate.

I think right now my biggest concern with AI is... how fast it can produce believable misinformation, which will be seen and reproduced by the average person

"Asking for forgiveness rather than permission" That's a good way to put it. Big companies just do whatever they want, then in case of controversy they just apologise with no tangible consequence, or get a slap on the wrist.

Sadly, artists in China are losing jobs because corporations started using AI . One artist in a phone interview said they will look for a different job. It truly is heartbreaking.

My art teacher and one of his old students used an AI recently, and had fun with it. They were really impressed at first. Then my teacher got bored. He's the kind of person who appreciates the process more than anything, sees the beauty in it. He often describes working with deliberate strokes, and discovering with amazement that an idea can be expressed through a simple stroke of the charcoal. He told me that working with AI is boring, because working on the composition, the intensity, values, ect, is the real enjoyment of creating art. He didn't talk much about the artists' jobs being at risk. He himself is not in danger, since he teaches people, I don't think he sells much of his own work but I could be wrong. I just think that even an old time artist, who's life is literally art, is confused with the rapid changes this technology brings, and that he doesn't wanna draw early conclusions and possibly introduce a bias to his students.

People keep forgetting that its not only drawings at risk, musics, voice acting, writings and even coding are also at great risk of being replaced by AI and are suffering the same problem of you having to analyzing it to see if was madr by a person or not, damn imagine being a teacher and having to read your students texts without knowing of they made ot themselves or it was an AI

I dont live off of my art, so im not really intimidated by AI art. in the end, what i love about it is the process. but im starting to get really worried for animators, professional illustrators, designers etc. this shit is getting way too good way too fast

I think even the problem with potentially jumping ship to a different career is that we don't know how big of an impact AI will have on those too. Art is just one of the things that will be impacted, but I can't imagine that jobs in finance, admin in general and basically any job that can be handled by someone sitting in front of a computer could eventually be replaced. Unless you job is purely something involving physical labour I could see a future where AI could more or less eliminate it as something a human is required to do. Not going to happen overnight but who know what the next decade will bring. How can you prepare for the unknown?

As an artist, all I can really do is watch. AI has flaws now? It'll get better. It's the nature of technology. I've really just accepted the fact that corporations and the average consumer will just choose to use AI because it's cheaper and faster. It makes me sad but there's not a lot we can really do. As we saw from the last video, the people making this aren't interested in money or power, they have an ideal and they'll pursue it regardless. So now just appreciate what we have, draw for yourself.

It sounds like the inherit problem is not within AI, but rather a world ran by corporations who value profits more than people. The only way that this problem is going to be solved is not by bashing AI, but rather rebuilding the system from the ground up. Something that, let’s be honest, is not happening any time soon. In the meantime artists and people in general don’t really have much they can do. I know it’s pessimistic, but it’s hard to look at it any other way.

I have played with AI art for about a month and I had fun with it, but then I lost all interest in it. And when I'm on Instagram's explore page, I'm surprisingly really good at seeing which art is made by AI. I think part of the reason why we enjoy real art is because we can see the beauty of the mind of the other person. There is no such connection when its AI art. It does not make you feel things to the same degree as real art does.

Keep making art. Just because ai can do it “faster” doesn’t mean your efforts are futile. You are making a tactile product. Ai is confined to the digital realm. We put so much weight on digital assets because we’re constantly looking at our screen devices. All that shit will fade.. there’s a reason why the pyramids are still standing today. It’s a physical fucking object. If anything AI will push us back into the world of the handmade as we will gain real appreciation for it once again

Honestly, im going to keep doing art, because i like it

what really annoys me is the number of people who hear about AI art being a problem, then start thinking that its *only* art at risk. Its to the point where many people dont like AI in general because "its coming for artists jobs" No, its threatening almost everyones jobs, almost equally, you only HEAR about the art because its a lot more interesting to talk about, but AI also brings a plethora of its own advantages. It isnt simple, or one dimensional like that and most of the people who have a single opinion for "AI" as one thing often dont know what theyre even talking about.

when you said "find a second source of income" it broke my heart. i knew that ai will forever change the art industry, but hearing that after watching this pretty damn smart video hit different, especially how delicately you put it.

I'm an artist myself. People are so mean lol, I have heard too many times my work is worthless and shit because they can get even better things for free and in seconds from AI, and that they will never pay me or any other artist ever again. Some of them even say they don't need to learn how to draw, because they can get AI to do it for them, and then pretend it's their work while they don't do shit. I'm really worried, to be honest. I had troubles selling my art even before the AI trend, people wanted my artworks to be free or were angry when it took more than one day to complete, and now it's even worse. Most of the time I can't sell anything and I'm only being insulted and laughed at by potential customers who love AI "art" more than actual art that was made by a human from scratch.

I still hope that humans will not be defeated by machines when it comes to the arts (like: drawings/paintings, writings, music, & etc). I hope that people can still fully express themselves just like in the past and for those who consume, to find works just like the classics of the past also. I'm not all against the AI but as someone who appreciate real art in different fields of art, I find this AI dilemma of replacing artist/creators/writers concerning. Edit: What I also meant with people expressing themselves in art, was that people are also going to make a living out of their art isnt just fair for people who make art for them to earn a living out of it? And isnt unfair for AI to take that away from people? Like Solar Sands also said there will be people who really appreciate art who will support pure human creation and traditional art will not die, it must and should be.

As a photographer, the comparison to photography is vexing to say the least. I think a lot of people who have no real experience with photography like to think of the art as just pointing in the right direction and pressing the shutter, whereas in reality it is the cumulative result of several different processes which can include but are not limited to editing, lighting, and set building. I know 99% of viewers probably aren’t thinking about the analogy through that kind of lens, but since the video covers the idea of your art losing value or respect, it hurt me a little 😭.

Something that feels very funny to me is that AI NEEDS a data pool to pull from in the end. If it takes over everything… who exactly is gonna make its data pool? AI literally needs artists for it to be able to replace them properly. Or else everything AI makes will boil down to the same style and same things very quickly.

AI art is going to make a lot of artists give up and generations of the future not even see the point in picking up a brush. Why make art if a calculator can do it for you? We'll get nothing new, everything will just be regergitated styles we've seen before, and visuals will stagnate. I think the only human made art we'll see going forawrd are physical crafts and whatever currently existing artists decided to make despite AI. There definately will always be human artsist but who will care about them and their works? Will it be impressive? Will it be expressive? Will it matter?

I'm now wondering if there'll be a surge in stuff like sculpture or other physical art. It'll certainly take longer for AI to get to that type of recreation, I hope.

As a pro artist I am used to 2 sets of customers: Customer 1 pays me an adequate amount of money, is polite, and usually even lets me have lots of artistic freedom. This person values me as an artist and as a person, the product is not the only thing that matters to them. Customer 2 is the type of commissioner to choose the lowest price tier, expects me to treat it like a high-caliber order, is pressuring me, constantly wants changes, tries to control every aspect of the piece, and in worst instances resorts to being fairly mean or impolite. That second customer will, in the future, resort to AI art. There are people who see art as a means to an end (sexual pleasure, game asset, flyer, cover, dnd, insert X art product here) and there are people who love art and cherish the fact that human craft, skill and passion lie behind it (customer 1). Art, music, and writing are the things that, among language and complex communication, sets us apart from animals. It is an innate part of human existence. Expression of oneself through skill, passion, athleticism, art and other ventures is paramount to the development of one's own personality and feeling a sense of self-growth or even reason to live. I find it hard to believe that people will just suddenly stop caring about other human beings, just because it is cheaper to do so. Another point about AI generative art and writing. If you look at pop culture, the likes of Marvel, Disney, etc,... what would be the defining property of these movies and media? They are generic. If AI made any number of Marvel movies, would you notice? Would you care? Would it matter? The amount of artistic expression a game artist or movie artist gets to experience while modeling Assassins Creed Outpost Tower Prop #389 was arguably never that high to begin with. Ai might just generate, what is already generic. With the difference being: Instant access. Do you crave Red Dead Redemption 3, tailored to your likes, to your interests, with your favorite actors, music, setting, and fantastic art and dialogue? Well here you go! Completely for free as well! And another one! And another one! And an- you get the idea. The mass production of, on surface level, high quality, but generic media, is impending. It will be such a mind boggling oversaturation of media that is pretty decent (but generic), that it will eventually implode, fall in on itself. Inflation. it will lose its kick, and maybe, all meaning altogether. From those shambles, people might realize that the tech-dystopia they created was never so bright to begin with. Ai Art is instantly accessible, cheap and easy. Those properties also rob it of any real artistic meaning. Again, mentioned Customer 2 will gladly generate those pieces for themselves, but let's be real, this person hardly and rarely willingly pays an artist anyways. Art will prevail, as will writing and music. AI will surely change a lot, but it won't make humans stop being humans. Unless, of course, Skynet gets activated, then we just well... are screwed! Bottomline, I am very much against AI art, but really only because I think its fairly boring and cynic to just... accept that that is the norm now. It just takes the fun out of art to know that this album cover might be the product of someone practicing for many years, bring passion and love for their medium... or just generated. And visually indistinguishable. Edit: What I didnt mention at all, since it's fairly uncertain what will actually happen, is regulation. Here in Europe some countries already made laws about AI. Japan followed suit recently. The US supreme court ruled AI imagery as not falling under fair use. This is an interesting but incomplete development, hence why I didn't comment on it.

I'm a concept artist in the film industry (The Matrix, Alien), and I recently spoke on a panel at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency regarding AI art and its impact on artists. We were able to garner a lot of interest from not only ML experts and ethicists, but the ACLU as well, in addition to empathy from those who approached us afterwards to tell us they didn't realize how bad it was, and asked how they could help. In regards to Corridor, a big part of the backlash from my community is the fact that it's normalizing, endorsing, and encouraging this type of thing. They literally built if off of copyrighted screenshots, and while I agree, it's a 'tech demo' of sorts, it's far more damaging than that overall. If Corridor does it, why can't I? They were extremely sloppy, especially when Jake, not long before, had an entire video from his standpoint as a lawyer discussing it. It's tone deaf at best. For people like me specifically, one major problem is the blue sky pre-production period is disappearing. That's when artists are brought in early to tackle the issues and see where to take a film. It's a lot of artists' main bread and butter, and I regret to inform you, I have colleagues already reporting seeing loads of AI generated work on art department walls on big productions that were not produced by them. The jobs are already going. Oh, also, just a small point regarding Photoshop not being able to create the art for you... it does now. Adobe has recently integrated a generative fill tool that will make nearly anything for you in inside your work. Things are moving fast. Anyway, as a fan of the channel, I just wanted to thank you for shining a spotlight on the issue, because we as artists can't yell loud enough on our own, and we need allies like you to help speak for us as well. Your perspective certainly differs from mine, but I think we share similar concerns, and I appreciate your efforts here. Keep up the great work.

“Art for art sake, money for god sake,” realest scentence I’ve heard in my entire life

I am afraid that by the time I have grown up there will be no use in pursuing my passions. Art is what I do, creating is the reason I live. If I cannot work within art I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'll have to study something I have no passion for, and work with that my entire life. I don't want to abondon my dream, but at this rate I'll have to. It makes me sad, angry and scared that I might not be able create things for a living. If I do not create I do not fully live. If I do not create, I am dead to myself.

As an aspiring artist, this makes me so deeply, soul-crushingly sad. I genuinely don't know what to do with my life without art.

To me Art is about the satisfaction of finishing a piece then looking at it in awe and taking it in that you did that. You put it all the work and it’s something that you’re proud of Something you can go look back on to inspire you once again when you’re feeling doubtful about your own skill.

I think what it means to be "creative" will change drastically. Right now, you can be as imaginative as you want, but you're not "creative" until you actually put in the work to create something. AI will make it so being imaginative will be enough for most people and most purposes. It's a pretty big paradigm shift in art.

As someone who wants to do art for a living, my feelings of the possibility of an art career goes back and forth, and it doesn't seem to stop. I'm not extremely “Anti-AI” (and I try to see the positive light with the technology), but I'm stumped for the most part. Who knows what companies will do with it? I mean, industries doesn't have the best rack record of treating employees good. I hope things are worked out well, not just for artist, but other industries at risk of extreme automation. I'm just scared of what I'm doing when I get to the “real world” and if I'll do something I dedicated my life towards.

Great video! I'm a Visual Development artist, and I pretty much agree with everything you said here. What really hurts to see is not AI producing decent images, it's how it further reveals that too many people couldn't give two sh**s about human labor. I don't mind so much if someone just didn't enjoy art, but to have such a high need for consuming artistic media while having such distain for the humans who make the stuff... it is awful. Not different from how too many people treat "essentail workers" as insignificant and undeserving of a living wage.

You know, being an artist in this time period is very scary, im genuinely horrified that I will be replaced and that my art will be replaced, I want to hope that this is somehow a fad, and that it’ll die out but I don’t think that’s going to happen, and that’s horrifying.

Like the laws overseas for requiring advertising to show accurate depictions of food, we need laws to require content creators and companies to put disclaimers in there advertising and products if it used any amount of AI software in it, or it instantly loses its copyright or and exclusivity.

I feel like people aren't talking about possibly the biggest factor: open source. You touch on it slightly by mentioning general public opinion/apathy. With big aiart corps, you can potentially deal with them via legislation and litigation, but that is incredibly ineffective against the vast number of normalish people doing their own thing in the wild. That's what makes this truly unstoppable, and I don't really hear many people talking about it. If you do a part 3 in this series, I would love to hear a deep level of insight from you on this aspect of things.

Personally, i tried not to worry too much about Ai tech replacing artists when it started rapidly improving a year or two ago, but the more time passes the more i'm worried about how am i gonna provide for myself when i grow up...i'm 17 rn and being a full-time artist/animator have been my dream job since childhood, but with all this Ai stuff going on i feel like very soon my dearest career path is no longer be a possible choice...i also thought "mb teaching art is secure" but with internet and ChatGPT around and with the fact that i suspect less and less people will avoid devoting themselves to drawing i feel like this is a dead end... The only way out i see is finally creating a youtube channel becoming a full-on internet persona asap to have at least some dedicated following until its too late... I'm extremely grateful to you for this enlightning and very thought-provoking video, watching you since some the first deviantart videos :) you never dissapoint

As a computer engineer who is also interested in art, a year ago I could not foresee a future were my main hobbie Was easier to replace by a machine than anything that I had ever done before. Countless of hours learning how to draw only to make them feel worthless really.

21:23 i confidently said "Corporate Art!" did not expect the real answer

Always glad to hear someone level-headed and normal talk about this issue

Great video. If you make a part 3, you might consider exploring how automation has historically impacted industries - like the Luddite movement. How did workers adapt? While not a perfect parallel, as AI art autonomously makes creative choices, the consequences of automation will probably be similar. My views on AI have changed significantly over the last year or so. However, I still believe AI art could usher in a creative renaissance. Some say AI art lacks originality, but I see creations that challenge that notion everyday. Like your weird train-spider thing. I still fully acknowledge that AI art is a bad thing for visual artists' livelihood. I also agree that the models should not use others' work without their permission. Once again, AI poses a very real threat to current artists' income, which is why I'm curious to know what happened during other phases of worker automation throughout history.

As an artist i feel like AI could be very helpful in generating textures or perhaps objects or vehicles that could then be used as reference for a drawing. It should not be used by corporations of by people flooding fanart hashtags taking away views from actual artists

This video truly changed my mind, until now I used to have a visceral reaction to AI art, but now I see that it was actually just some kind of warped jealousy. Artistic perfectionism sacarred me in multiple ways, and being enraged at AI art is just a way I found to blame something else instead of myself. I should be supporting artists and fighting for their rights instead of being enraged at pictures online, thank you solar sands.

The reason why artists create art is not and will never be only to get the end product. Practicing anatomy and learning new skills is not boring and time consuming, It is our passion and what gives us joy in life. People do knitting or pottery or any kind of craft in their free time just because the process fills them with joy. And even If you could buy a mass produced piece for a dollar, If someone sells that thing they Made themselfes for 20 bucks, there are still people who rather buy that handmade piece, then the cheap factory thing from china.

The best solution is to not care and make your art anyways. the value of art is that it offers insight and perspective that only on person has. It is an expression of the self, which an AI lacks. AI can sell the skill, but it will never sell the art.

I felt extremely intimidated and anxious, when my boss proposed trying AI to save the time. My job is to create promotional materials and I have already minimized my efforts by using such tools as canva or stock photos. I feel so useless when thinking about AI and the way it constantly develops. Deep down, I wish the technology never got there, as, personally for me, as impressive as AI art is - it's faceless. I still can paint portraits of people or animals the way I see them and put as much love as I can into my creations, but such things as promotional materials or general concepts by designers are definitely going to be replaced by ai art.

Moving too an age where handmade skills are worthless

12:43 I feel that a lot. And to me, it is surprisingly impressive how we humans can notice AI-generated images, even when displayed small. When I scroll through my Spotify releases, I often see a cover and be like "This feels a lot like AI". I can't confirm if my feelings are right, but just the fact that our mind is so good at pattern recognition, is so impressive! 28:31 This reminds me of the one video, where the creator intentionally had a typo in his title, so that people in the comments would correct him. 5mins into the video, he mentioned that and suddenly you realize that some things might look like error, but are there for a reason. To generate engagement.

i started my first year studying animation at uni this year, i'd been working for this for a decade only for immediately when starting the course ai art really started becoming a thing. i felt so defeated and i think a lot of the others were too, but i think we all just tried to ignore it. i remember sitting in a concept art class a few months ago and our lecturer was encouraging us to focus on storyboarding and comics, as ai can't do that yet. really just made me think about the reality of all this. i know art jobs aren't the only ones in trouble here, but it's stressful that thats where all the attention is. i feel sorta robbed now. why couldn't i have been born 50 years earlier? maybe i should have studied science instead.

This video is the most reasonable argument I've seen in a while. It does make me a bit anxious but also hopeful, if that's possible. Personally, I'll keep making art no matter what. I think artists themselves are far more equipped to use the upcoming AI tools than people too focused on prompting, because having artistic sensibility is a skill too, not just knowing the technical rules of drawing and etc. But that's only if you are open minded (or desperate to keep your job).

"Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should"

being an artist and all, i hopped on the hating ai bandwagon at first because i mostly do digital art, but now i feel like most of the arguments have devolved and usually only end when somebody is too exhausted to keep coming up with ways to prove their point. i'm only a kid but my wish is to get some sort of graphic designing job, or even a job that involves some sort of creation. i'd settle for something as long as im making enough money to live a happy life. when ai showed up i freaked out, watched the steven zapata video, scrolled on pinterest and applauded myself for finding ai art and saying "this anime girl has 17 fingers on one hand. boo ai art." and now i just dont see the fun anymore. why be so angry at something i cant control? what can i do to improve my art and not feel that all my dreams have been taken away because computers can make art now? i enjoy lots of different arts, so if digital art is completely washed out maybe i wont be done for. thank you solar for being one of those youtubers that dont go insane and only look at one side of the argument. this might just be nonsense because i dont have to worry about jobs, taxes, and bills yet but i will never stop creating :)

Earning my BA in Graphic Design we were instructed by our professors to not let the computer do the design. They taught us to sketch out ideas in pencil BEFORE going to the computer. The reason was that as soon as you starting using Illustrator or Photoshop tools, those tools would drive you toward a design that would ultimately be more stale and lifeless. I'm a graphic designer, and though I'm wowed by AI art, I can see it usurping many (if not all)aspects of my job ...probably in the next 5 years.

Great video. There are so many legitimate reasons to be critical of AI and its so frustrating to see artists clumsily insulting/making fun of AI art. The theft, the lying, the way it'll hurt smaller artists feels really really bad to see ALREADY and these concerns are only going to get worse as AI tools become more accessible and efficient.

I guess the only light there is to this situation is that there will always be people who will appreciate real art. Artists working for big companies might not be as common in the future, but at the end of the day, werent artist always mistreated in those environments? Even when they were the only ones who could produce the artwork, i always heard stories abt them being given unrealistic deadlines and being taken for granted, especially animators. The only people who ever trully understood artists were other artists. I hope you all dont lose the motivation to create, so that we can keep the community we have and keep expanding it :)

Babe wake up, new Solar Sands video dropped

Barely 1 AM, and solar sands is already handing out an existential crisis like candy

Would love to hear about the impacts of non-art AIs. In my small industry the impact of AI generated code has been instant and massive. And it would be cool to talk about the economic and ethical impacts of more technology oriented AI tools.

❤ Thanks for this video! I’m an environment designer & can recall when photobashing became standard. Older artists who’d been around since before Photoshop consoled me by saying, “Have u ever seen a non-artist try to photo bash?” & “Do u really miss rendering the foliage by hand?” My point is, there will always be a new tech, but it’ll work best in the hands of classically trained artists. Unfortunately, the difference with AI image generators is that there’s so little effort by the user, & it’s unrelated to artistic skill. From what I’ve seen, the merit of results depends mostly on SHEER LUCK (bc u can prompt 5000x & only get a few usable pics) & OTHER ARTIST’S COPYRIGHTED WORK. The best images “made by AI” on social media are being produced by image-to-image generation followed by prompt-based editing. I know bc we’ve used these tools in my studio for quite a while, with our own copyrighted works & licensed stock, of course. Ultimately, US law will likely hold that there is no copyright ownership by a user of an AI image-gen program unless they contribute sufficient artistic input to meet the authorship standard after the AI image is generated. In other words, it’ll be a similar standard as when you photo bash. You will own your epic fantasy landscape if you create it by photobashing lots of pics of organic textures, but not by pasting a collage of AI-generated fantasy landscapes. I feel great empathy for artists who are just starting out, if professionals like me & you are drawing less. I started a mural painting business about 5mo ago, because I’ve always loved to paint big & it’s a unique field that’s in high demand & AI- resistant. My advice for working artists is to do something similarly “non-digital” or start a totally different side hustle, like construction, (wisely) stock investing, delivery, etc. My advice for artists who are in school… if you aren’t independently wealthy, this probably isn’t the safest career path. If I had kids, I’d encourage them to major in accounting, pharmacy, nursing or another area where you get a license to practice &/or you’re performing an in-person service for humans that cannot easily be automated or outsourced abroad ❤

Honestly it still blows my mind how rapidly fast AI technology grows with each second, since there’s gonna be a point where it will be impossible to find a mistake in what they make.🐱

it feels so satisfying to finally come across an individual that sees value in soft but steady counter-arguments in controversial issues, and actively condemns wrathful hatred and bullying. i absolutely despise seeing people from my own side of the fence try to brutally bash our opponents with harmful language; it makes our side seem so barbaric and unjust, and surely the other side that remains somewhat neutral and reserved will seem much more mature in comparison. as always, absolutely wonderful video. you are always on-point and tackle every issue as deftly as you can.

The editing at 21:35 was so fucking funny. You gave me just enough time to figure out what the answer would be before hardcutting to a title card with Dark Souls music. I was literally cheering and laughing xD

Damn, that was really good. Thanks for breaking it down the way you did. This touches on a bunch of stuff people I know in the publishing industry are worried about. I really appreciate the time and effort and insight you put into this. Thank you!

Leave it to Solar Sands to have the most based and nuanced take. With how crazy things are out there, your calm demeanor and reasonable takes are a breath of fresh air. Nice to know there's at least one adult, in this room we call the internet.

Being replaced by an Artificial Intelligence to take your job sounds like this is something that came straight out of a _Black Mirror_ episode.

It's quite fascinating how well this video shows both sides of the arguments that take place online . I appreciate the amount of effort put into researching this topic . At the end of the day , no one can predict what's going to happen next so we just have to learn to adapt and be reasonable with each other .

I think there should be rules in place where you need to very clearly disclose that you have gotten assistance from AI in the making of that artwork.

I wish you touched a bit more the intentionality angle. Elements like shapes choice, composition, story telling are things I see AI art struggle a lot. I'm glad this was a path I decided to go with before AI art appeared but I still feel pretty depressed about the whole situation.

Bruh you are becoming the new Vsauce with these videos and I’m all here for it

This is why I just can’t use Twitter. People on there just make me so mad, falling for obvious rage bait and complaining all the damn time. I do NOT need that.

I remember the whole corridor digital thing, i ended up discussing it with friends and even left my own take, and brought up how the whole film was one of the best popular case of AI animation honestly. Advertised it as AI, talked about how it was done, shown that they filmed, edited, created sounds and etc for the video and just left the animation to the 'AI'. The biggest problem that i pointed out was, they ended up using snip bits of a animated film to intentionally try to mimic the style, *without consent* of the studio/animators that worked on said film. If they fixed that one problem their whole video wouldve been perfectly fine, either by hiring illustrators to create illustrations for the AI to learn off of and replicate, or simply finding artist who consent to their work being used for said project. The whole controversy over their work was hugely blown out of water, and made it harder for anyone to take the whole AI problem serious, its not the fact its AI, its due to the fact it was being trained off of the work of non-consenting artist.

Amazing video. As someone who is also against training AI models with copyrighted images without consent, but at the same time an enthusiast of AI tech and tools, I find myself in a bunch of crossroads when talking about this stuff with my artist friends who are outraged by the existence of such a thing. You hit the nail on the head doing a perfect impartial video about this stuff, thank you.

I swear you're the only one who makes sense around this whole argument, your videos help me so much understanding what the hell is even going on at this point, between the two sides screaming and yelling at each other. It's the NFT debacle all over again, but 50 times worse (and as you said, this time the outcome will make an actual impact in our society)

He talks about having this urge to scrutinize every image to see if he can tell if it's AI or not and sometimes not being able to tell or guessing wrong... And that makes me wonder if that's how boomers felt about trying to discern email scams from valid communications. Will people who were born after this technology cannot be able to tell the difference at a glance?

I love watching art process videos. There's a certain zen kinda thing that goes on when you're watching a craftsman work, be that in paint or clay or in digital media. You don't get that with AI art; the robot's only really willing to take a prompt and then spit out a result. Craftsmanship as a performance is just not something that it does or that is even likely to be attempted by an AI. That seems to be a place where human artists will always have an advantage.

art may end up being like stop motion animation. CGI is much easier to make, but people like stop motion films because of the time put into them, and something about them is just... entertaining in a unique way.

Yea no I got nothing, I have been somewhat part of the AI-Hate segment of the audience, while not actively shilling out people who do use it I will look at art that is AI-Generated with a less than respectful outlook. You have raised valid points and made me more aware to what this AI art could be. Thank you for that. I still will not like AI Art. I still find it utterly terrifying of a tool and how its seeping into my daily life annoys and frightens me to no end. But at the very least I will hold it to more respect now and view it more than some "fuckers doing shit" as I had before. Fear of unknown crap being an ass all over again.

So, what now? Is it even worth switching to 3D modelling at this point, or will it be just like with 2D art where by the time I waste years/decades getting good enough at it AI will once again catch up and obsolete 3D modelers too? At this rate no creative outlets feel safe and the ones that might be are just too different, niche and require entirely new skill sets that don't benefit from having experience in digital art.

I appreciate your ability to be realistic about the future of AI art and how it will be here to stay. Like you said, while it’s easy to point out flaws in current models, it’s also easy to see just how insane it is that a computer is able do what it’s done with just a text prompt. I only do art as a hobby while I plan on working as an aerospace engineering, so while obviously I’m hoping for the best for people who make art as a job it’s safe to say I’m going to keep drawing my own content.

Ai art is like the industrial metal works vs a blacksmith. the blacksmith makes things with soul and often more prettier.. but the industrial metal works can make 50 times as much of the same product with less work required. quality might not be at the same standards, but it will evolve to the a point where it is acceptable.

the big problem with the ai argument for me is that both sides see every small thing as a major innovation. for example, i saw a project of a camera without a lense that uses location data and ai to pretend to take pictures. sounds like a fun little toy. the anti-ai side were replying "that's stupid, just use a real camera" while the other side was like "wow, this is just a glimpse into the future of photography!" the only winning move currently is not to care

Congrats to our corporate overlords for successfully dividing the people and putting them against each other so they can effectively keep advancing AI

I know it might seem hard, but never stop drawing, even if you have to get another job, even if it looks like it doesn't matter, do it for your own sake, the joy of creating is something we humans need.

21:50 "NSFW artists may seriously be in trouble" yeah with God.

The part about people falling for Twitter bait and moving to further extremism hits home so hard. The bait posts is one of the first things I noticed about Twitter. I thought, "Hah, at least I won't fall for that." Cut to a few months later, I'm arguing in the replies of some dumb tweet giving a shitty opinion every week. It can drag you in, even if you think it can't. My solution was only using the Latest view so I don't get random popular posts, and only following art accounts. If I see a post with a lot of text and no image, I skip it. It's just almost never worth reading someone's writing on Twitter.

Man, Solar always makes good videos. How far we've gone from the deviantart vids. Now my boy making analysis on art, philosophy, and media. 👍

Good video man, I always learn something new/ interesting about art that didn't before👍

I feel like at the core of this issue is that we're all forced to work some sort of job to survive in our current society and the intersection of creativity and financial stability is shrinking. If we had any sort of UBI the loss of jobs would be less of an issue since artists and designers could continue creating without needing to worry about their livelihood. Automation should give us more free time, but our system is not set up to reward people for having free time.

I just want people to be honest on whether they used ai or not, especially if they are selling the art.

It's going to ruin people's lives but corporations and governments don't care so There is nothing you can do....

I’ll tell you art. Buying as much as you can of NVDA in 2018-2021. There was a lot of work and consideration after seeing portfolios of the best clients of Merrill, JPmorgan private bank, and wells fargo advisors for 18 years. I could be wrong but I am not.

I heard someone say that AI is more like commissioning from an artist than you being the actual artist and I think that's very true

There is such a spectrum of the WHAT and the WHY in art. I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil and I know artists like me work hard and practice practice practice and even when I was a kid, if I saw another kid using tracing paper, something inside me would balk a little bit at him calling himself an artist. I will always love traditional art more than what computers can do because there is some soul in it that is hard to describe. I remember the same feeling when CGI came out and still maintain that CGI is able to build a fire without the wood. I remember a fellow graphic designer in college saying "Graphic art is the prostitution of art" and I think AI is this to the Nth degree. If we're just trying to get something cool as fast as possible to make more money. But a true artist enjoys the process, the feel of a pencil on paper, the subtle nuances of his own style developing over time. AI will never stop me from doing art, but it may hinder me making money from it.

I agree that AI is way more dangerous to artist careers then most realize. I also agree fighting bait and individuals isn't helping. I find myself picking up the pencil and digital pen way less often just like you. However, I hate seeing you having lost faith in the future of the integrity of art at the same level as I have. It really does seem hopeless.

As someone who already went through being replaced by AI (I did some side money as a translator), I really feel for artists who feel threatened by AI art, and I will consciously avoid any product made with it I am not denying it's usefulness, but I will have 100% human made art a million times before something AI generated in anything that could incide in my life

I once had someone reply to me asserting my comments were AI generated. I actually had to take a minute or so to just stare at that reply and take in its absolute lunacy.

Since your last video I've gotten my first full time job as a professional artist. Since then I've seen how helpful some of these ai tools can be. It's great for generating quick assets you need for a piece to then place and trace in a job when you cant find exactly what you need. This stuff can be worrying on a larger scale because I've also noticed it in adds more and more but for actual artistic jobs there is an application for these tools that doesn't make what we do obsolete. Also more people want to support actual humans making art than we realize

I see so much concern about artists losing jobs over AI, but most of those jobs are low level factory art. Artists should be pumped for the AI revolution, instead of being paid to be a part of the process, one artist can create so much more on their own. The fact that so many artists feel that same "what's the point?" when they go to create art because of AI advancement is upsetting to me. I will never break a 3 minute mile, write a bestseller, win a grammy, or get a nobel peace prize. The thing is, running keeps me healthier, writing calms my mind, singing brings me joy, and being peaceful prevents my untimely death. An artist will art. If one NEEDS a cash prize, a medal, their name on a top ten list or whatever it may be to create art, they are an opportunist following the path of least resistance. I make AI generated art, and I pay a monthly fee to do so. I don't do it with any idea of making my money back by somehow monetizing my art, I do it for the pleasure of taking an idea and seeing it become real(ish). Producing images for a saturday morning cartoon designed to sell sugar bomb cereal for an hourly wage is not art, it is work.

This is amazing once again Solar Sands! I'll be lost in the comments which is fine.. I am a person who draws and can create images, I don't call myself an artist because an artist have confidence and the ability to speak with their work and invoke feeling within the viewer, and I heavily lack this. I only drew because I loved it, I drew so so much I failed classes when I went to school and I only drew for MYSELF for 8 whole years, I rarely showed my stuff to anyone, my dad said something to me when I was 14, which was "If you don't do anything with your art, why are you even doing it?" This had rotted me for so long, because he was right, I wasn't doing anything but making up stupid oc's for myself, not even posting them. 21 now, and I recently... Finally began to come out of my shell, and I picked an amazing time to do it. It's especially hard for people to even comment on work let alone like it, so hard to get critiques and help to grow and I even tried to quit multiple times, but since now we are in an age of instant gratification, people don't really care about "soul, time, effort" or anything. Is the picture pretty? Yeah? That it. There is, in hindsight as an individual person who WANTS to make a name for themselves, no point, unless you turn to traditional means. There is no point to draw, because like I said, I drew for myself for 8 years, why am I even doing it if art is supposed to be admired and looked at? When people say "draw for yourself" which is the main Number one rule I live by, art isn't without purpose and to be shared, if every single artist on the web deleted all of their work and they left just the Ai images, it'll just collapse onto itself. Ai art isn't bad, currently, with it stealing data (as much as one would liken it to the human mind, I don't go through people's personal medical records photos for inspiration) Ai needs to be regulated somehow. Screw the people who developed this and released it, they knew exactly what they were doing. We just have to deal with it.. Sadly, there's always gonna be evil people out there to use things against people. The VRX people aren't bad, what they made was actually cool and my stance is exactly what Aaron Blaise said, alot of artists are just done having to deal with the short end of the stick, the "art isn't a real job" or the jealously, the constant stealing and tracing and plagiarizing... I got dragged thro the mud and my "art" ruined by these people because I said one thing and it has once again made me see what I create as trash and nothing more.. It just.. Sucks as a creative person in this day and age, people who code, voice act and make music.. It's a bleak future.

9:53 they actually ended up changing that doctor who cover to have no AI art in it due to backlash, so at least some companies that try experimenting with AI art may stop using it if there’s enough complaints (also that’s the cover for a doctor who audio drama which literally got released today which is a cool lil’ coincidence)

AI art is like asking for a commission from an artist. It is bad because it is the mass production of art, like with many products, as the quantity increases the quality decreases.

I work for a ad company as freelancer and we just had a webinar over working with AI to save time and money. They said that we can better work with AI than ignoring it as it gonna prevent u from not knowing anything about it and get outgrown by it.