This is so amazing and so true.
I'm not an artist, but my experience with the use of new technology to replace expertise is that the integrity of the work involved is the first element to be discarded. The bean counters who decided that dumb people can do the job of smart people more cheaply will never abandon that mindset.
If these AI bros want their product to be relevant in a few years, they need to work WITH artists, but they have shown over and over again they want to work in spite of them. They wanted to replace us and are now getting a taste of what it's like to be us and they can't handle it.
I had this problem as an editor in mass market publishing. My art people were terrible and stubborn about making corrections. They thought I was the bitch. They were being PAID to make corrections for quality. Corrections that were clearly marked.
Someone calling themselves an artist for using AI is like someone going to McD, ordering at a kiosk, customizing their meal and calling themselves a chef. I have never seen a single piece of AI generated imagery that I would prefer over an actual artist's work. I can't wait until this fad dies.
It's nice to see AI being shown to not operate in specific examples. Ultimately, algorithmic image generation will probably become a very useful tool for an artist in a large portfolio of useful tools.
So true
It's funny because stable diffusion actually has the tools to do all of this-it's called inpainting and img2img generation--but it requires the user to have an artist's gaze and tastes and often requires nearly as much work in refinement as painting it in properly would have.
This is so reassuring rn, especially with how rampant AI is and how it seems to be taking over eveyrthing, this was an amazing read.
Much thanks to Vincent for holding them to the necessary standards and withstanding that massive amount of failed QA. Having someone like that demonstrating why it won't work is going to be essential to getting these doofy CEOs to drop the idea that machines can take the place of artists. A hero.