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I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by brushfoot »

grugagag wrote: post #48
brushfoot wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see it. I consult, and AI has just let me take on more clients. Using ChatGPT lets me finish their projects faster. What's ending is the era of CRUD work.

> don't see it. I consult, and AI has just let me take on more clients. Using ChatGPT lets me finish their projects faster. Get ready to take on more clients and at a smaller and smaller gain. An avalanche of competition is coming your way too if you have no moat.

For sure. I recommend anyone in business for themselves productize and build moats.

I still work about the same hours, though. AI has just raised the level of abstraction. Less time is spent on looking up specific syntax and more on reviewing, iterating, testing, architecting.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by muyuu »

Some people say there isn't enough empathy to go around for those creatives that are seeing their jobs either endangered or automated to a degree they've become sweatshop janitors with little prospects to be anything else.

I wonder if that sort of empathy was so plentiful when the automation was shredding the prospects of farmers, miners, truckers and other blue collar workers?

Make no mistake, generative AI is going to affect the creative work market massively over the next few years.

People will need to keep adapting and perhaps some humility would be in order when somebody else is going through hardship as the market for his or her work profile is in dire straits.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by csours »

I used to have a job I liked. That job went away in the name of efficiency. I can't even disagree with the analysis - the old way was less efficient. It still sucks to lose something that you enjoy doing and that helps the team.

I'm doing fine, I went from specialized tech support to software development; but when we talk about efficiency, we are talking about people's lives.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by dagmx »

mitthrowaway2 wrote: post #18
al2o3cr wrote: post #4

LOL at the reply a couple posts down, where OP admits they work at a mobile shovelware sweatshop.

Is something wrong with that? You have to start somewhere.

I don’t think they were judging the employee, but the number of people extrapolating this experience to all artists.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by muyuu »

juujian wrote: post #43

From all I have learned about ChatGPT coding copilots, this is going to be bleak. Similar art styles. No sudden surprises. Eerily familiar characters. I don't like the look of this. More reason to cherish hand-drawn/hand-animated (?) unique works though.

Generally speaking, whatever output people can do, generative AI can do to the point you wouldn't be able to tell it apart.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by kranner »

jackblemming wrote: post #23

On the other side of the fence, I'm extremely grateful tools like Copilot can automate the mundane process of looking up magic incantations to get some (usually poor) library to do what I want. I have no sympathy for programmers who saw it as a point of pride to memorize hundreds of built in functions and annoying minutiae.

Knowledge of annoying minutiae can be indispensable when you're trying to debug code that looks like it's calling the right functions based on the function signature.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by Kye »

dimaor wrote: post #21
runnerup wrote: post #3

People with a good understanding of different styles of art and framing/angles/etc should be able to create the "right" prompts for a customer much much faster and get better results than people who don't know art. Generative AI like Midjourney will completely upend the art industry (it already is). But I don't think it's the death knell for the study of art. Here's a solid example of that in the context of creating…

I think the point is missed here. the post was made by an artist who really likes his craft, and now with the generated models coming to the picture he feels like his work diminished to simply polishing after them. I am a coder who really likes coding, getting results quicker will not make me happier. it is different in a work environment, but still, a lot of people simply enjoy the path and not only the outcome.

It's the same with every person who shows up with AI music composition. "Finally, you can be free from the tedium of composing music and get to the fun parts!"

But that is one of the fun parts...

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by imtringued »

web3-is-a-scam wrote: post #12

People are already generating entire apps with AI in minutes. Software engineering as a profession is finished. We are all now slaves to Roko’s Basilisk.

ChatGPT is impressive if you start from a clean slate but the moment you do anything more complicated it slows down to being as fast as doing things yourself. After all, you have to know what to input into it and that may take longer than actually processing the information.

Re: I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

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Post by harimau777 »

thrill wrote: post #24
andrewflnr wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The market of people who care enough about those aspects to pay an expert is, I'm guessing, much smaller than the market for people who will be fine with whatever they can come up with themselves.

The market will decide if those "good enough" people are right.

Perhaps the market is wrong. Just because something is profitable doesn't make it good.
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