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Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by robertlagrant »

kranke155 wrote: post #145
yehAnd wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will help content producers avoid hiring to achieve good results. I’m using AI to aid development of a game engine with a baked in model to replicate and help the user evolve the game world style, and rules, to their curiosity and tastes. Games will be even easier since familiar experiences are heavily constrained through painstaking play test. Game world generation parameters are finite. Even the art work we appr…

Extinction level event is precisely what I am looking at. It’s funny to me that even here in HN people don’t get this at all. They fall behind simple truisms “automation only increases jobs”. It’s almost as if they’ve forgotten Trump got elected because vast swathes of America were deindustrialised and that led to a collapse to the quality of life in those regions. On research that I’ve read, automation has definitel…

People theoufht the same with advancements in agritech 150 years ago. If 30% of the population isn't out in the fields, they'll be unemployed forever. Turns out we invent new jobs all the time.

Whether they're worth taking Vs doing something more similar to your current job but for a bit less money is an individual's choice, of course.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by robertlagrant »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #51
robertlagrant wrote: post #4

Some excerpts from your website in the future: "We use AI to optimise our early-stage iterations" "AI is great for generating initial concepts. Here are some of ourfavourites, and some that didn't turn out so well!" "Did you know AI can reduce our turnaround for clients by up to 50%?" In other words: it'll help. It won't replace you.

Or you could have the same turnaround and half the employees, guess which is cheaper.

It's even cheaper to not have any employees at all, if that's your goal.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by kranke155 »

robertlagrant wrote: post #151
kranke155 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Extinction level event is precisely what I am looking at. It’s funny to me that even here in HN people don’t get this at all. They fall behind simple truisms “automation only increases jobs”. It’s almost as if they’ve forgotten Trump got elected because vast swathes of America were deindustrialised and that led to a collapse to the quality of life in those regions. On research that I’ve read, automation has definitel…

People theoufht the same with advancements in agritech 150 years ago. If 30% of the population isn't out in the fields, they'll be unemployed forever. Turns out we invent new jobs all the time. Whether they're worth taking Vs doing something more similar to your current job but for a bit less money is an individual's choice, of course.

The average height of Englishmen actually went down during the industrial revolution (presumably) due to malnutrition.

New histories of the period think of it as potentially as one of the few times we know where there was an enormous economic boom alongside a general collapse of quality of life.

Ir could be we are looking at something similar at the moment with the digital revolution.

Yes eventually we all retrain and the effect will be nil, but in the in-between time, a lot of people might suffer immensely.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by chottocharaii »

thot_experiment wrote: post #136
throwaway5959 wrote: post #126

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How many people work on farms as a percentage of the population now as they did 100 years ago? We still eat, but now almost no one farms. Most everyone is still employed. We’ll figure something out.

Ok but that's exactly the problem, the situation we've "figured out" is kinda trash. A bunch of rich people own all the farms and we gave everyone bullshit admin jobs because we can't admit to ourselves that almost nobody farms and we still all eat and maybe that means a good portion of the population could just chill out.

I would much, much, rather work an Admin job than work on a farm

are you aware of how taxing that work is on the body ? How isolating it is ?

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by freetime2 »

kranke155 wrote: post #36
egypturnash wrote: post #22

I am a 2d artist and I have similar feelings. Are you as full of loathing for all the HN people saying “just integrate the AI into your practice” as I am? I like drawing stuff and I love that this pays my bills and I really have zero interest in becoming a “prompt engineer” instead. I think a strategy of creating an image of AI art as cheap and tacky is useful. For how long, I don’t know. If we’re lucky then it’ll tu…

It’s ridiculous. There will be no integration - my job is just going to become less profitable and diverse. It’s beyond nonsense. I make 100k a year in London making CG. I don’t see how that will be available to me doing AÍ prompt work.

Have you seen the demo of Stable Diffusion integrated into Photoshop[1]? It seems like a very useful tool for an artist to have in their toolkit. And I think professional skills will still be in demand to blend everything together and create portions of the image from scratch - for many years to come.

I think this is what people have in mind when they talk about integration. It doesn't seem ridiculous to me.

[1] https://weirdwonderfulai.art/general/stable-diffusion-integr...

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by yrgulation »

kranke155 wrote: post #144
yrgulation wrote: post #110

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Personally i find ai created content utter shite. Even copilot’s autocomplete feels like a toy, let alone that it needs to be fed with new content all the time in order to stay up to date. If not where will it steal its dataset from? Itself?

I find it shit now. I’m not sure what I’ll think 5 years from now.

Well thats a good point.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by P5fRxh5kUvp2th »

cma wrote: post #77
someweirdperson wrote: post #45

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For humans the inspiration can be something else than the medium to use. Watching reality can provide inspiration for creating a video. And I'm pretty sure that's wher most inspiration comes from. It cannot for AI. Of course in a world where everything exists AI doesn't need inspiration from other sources.

It can for AI, it is consuming and mixing in training trail cam images, etc. that weren't composed shots.

That's not at all what the other poster was saying.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by t0bia_s »

AI wouldn't steal your job. I guess your clients require specific taks, nothing that can be precisely done by AI. Sure, it can help to speed up creative process, but if AI generated images/video is enough for your clients, than nothing new and innovative is made.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by anothernewdude »

egypturnash wrote: post #22

I am a 2d artist and I have similar feelings. Are you as full of loathing for all the HN people saying “just integrate the AI into your practice” as I am? I like drawing stuff and I love that this pays my bills and I really have zero interest in becoming a “prompt engineer” instead. I think a strategy of creating an image of AI art as cheap and tacky is useful. For how long, I don’t know. If we’re lucky then it’ll tu…

Frankly, it's because copyright has been so draconian, that I think this the rise of AI is so good.

Finally people will get culture back. We won't have to appeal to corporate giants to have access to movies, images and music.

Re: Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG

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Post by anothernewdude »

t0bia_s wrote: post #158

AI wouldn't steal your job. I guess your clients require specific taks, nothing that can be precisely done by AI. Sure, it can help to speed up creative process, but if AI generated images/video is enough for your clients, than nothing new and innovative is made.

> than nothing new and innovative is made.

But will people notice?

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