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>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…
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Would that be similar to a "prompt engineer" role?
Help me out. What's a "prompt engineer?" It seems like a very good title for the way we will be using AIs in the future. Many of these AIs will need just the right prompt (question?) to get the info we need. I like the title.
>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…
> It will be interesting to see if a specialized job will rise where people will get paid to generate just the right image. I don't think so. People just need the result, so the AI will simply become a tool of the trade and you won't have any more AI image engineers than you have dedicated Photoshop artists right now.
Manipulating an AI prompt to get what you want is also a specialized skill, but may require an order of magnitude or two less training, or obviate the need for the job entirely.
An art director for a campaign wants a set of images created, and a set of stock photos used. They may have a junior person on their team create those images, each of which could take hours to create, or they can produce those images with an AI tool, which might take minutes. Or the director may simply use the tool themselves for a few minutes and then hand it off to someone else to clean up "in post".
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And digital artists aren't still pretty low on your ranking? I don't know, after all the predictions about self-driving cars, I'm cautious. Especially considering that back then, it almost seemed obvious that we'd have self-driving cars by now. Cars were certainly capable of driving themselves back in 2016, it just seemed like we needed to iron out a few kinks. How long could that possibly take? Now, I have no idea w…
Self-driving cars are reality for a few years already. Issue is with laws and people, much less with tech.
Also, if your bar for accidents is "slightly better than a drunk driver and even less accountable", sure, then we can fully deploy that right now. Unfortunately this really isn't sufficient and car companies are fully aware. There's a reason Mercedes made headlines by taking responsibility for the car for ten seconds after disengaging the auto pilot and why they're the only ones who are doing this so far.
>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…
So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value
When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
I'm biased from the terrible experience I had trying to get my kids to learn online in the pandemic, but I think schoolteacher might be one of the mass professions that is least susceptible to being AI Engineered away.
Ethicist is probably a safe career path too, but there aren't that many of those. And Politicians will of course prevent robots from taking over their jobs.
>"While the role of the artist isn’t going away soon, the role of stock image sites might disappear. " Not, yet. While it's cheap relative to stock images, it's time consuming to generate exactly what you want. Prices for stock images will collapse for the common quick to use images but the price for the specialized high end images will hold their value or even increase in value. Those historical and such images will…
Also there is nothing preventing Stock Image Sites themselves using Dall-E to generate additional images. Heck they can use their own existing images for training (which the other's can't due to copyright issues) to increase the portfolio, but the Stock Image Sites can access free public images. So, counter-intuitively it may strengthen Stock Image Sites value
[1] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/1551964984325812224
When asked about what jobs the robots would come for first, I would have had to say that digital artist was pretty low on my ranking before now.
It's coming for us, too. It won't be long before most software engineer positions are eliminated while some are replaced by software "technicians" with enough expertise to command AI to generate working code. Perhaps the technicians will be tasked with building tests and some automation, but even that stuff can be delegated to AI to an extent. This may seem far off because the present economy is accustomed to paying…
Honestly, this is an awesome use of DALL-E and I'll probably start doing the same for my blog It's perfect because: - The images just need to get across a vibe, they don't need to be perfect - It's a low-value enough use of images that you'd probably never commission a human artist to do them; instead you'd either use stock photos, or skip having images completely - The nature of header images for a tech blog tends t…
>The images just need to get across a vibe I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out…
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Serious question, although everyone seems to avoid it, when will this or a similarly advanced system allow porn? In fact, the porn companies have been awfully quiet for a while. What are they doing? Usually they are the ones on the brink of new technology.