Nearby_Personality55 t1_iqwmzqj wrote on October 3, 2022 at 5:14 PM

As someone who uses AI in graphics projects, who teaches/tutors design here and there:

I studied graphic design and animation. I am a much better, more creative prompt engineer than many people who didn't study any art.

AI art is basically "garbage in, garbage out." I'm in several AI communities and the people doing really well with it have some kind of visual arts backgrounds, though there are some writers too discovering AI.

It's an adjunct and aide to human creativity, not a replacement for it.

patricktoba t1_iqwpgmp wrote on October 3, 2022 at 5:30 PM

I think even with AI, artists that were artists before AI are going to naturally thrive within more than a random person that can draw more than stick figures. You can tell who is a bandwagoner by all the artgerm/mucha/rutkowski prompts of young pretty girls/Emma Watson.

gantork t1_iqwphyo wrote on October 3, 2022 at 5:30 PM

That's the current state, but it will probably be a replacement rather soon. At the very least it will replace the artists in an art director - artist relationship.

Nearby_Personality55 t1_iqwqlk6 wrote on October 3, 2022 at 5:37 PM

Fair.

If you're a person who has their own ideas they'd like to produce then it's good news. For me, it's helping me realize a dream of creating my own worlds and stories. I basically have promoted myself to art director on my personal projects, and it's also amazing for iterating on designs and building whole design themes and riffs from a single image.

If you're stuck in a production pipeline however and probably if you're new, it's bad news. I am glad I found this as a freelance and contract mid career multiskilled designer and not as someone struggling to get their first production artist job, I'll say that.

DBRespawned t1_iqwtxhh wrote on October 3, 2022 at 5:58 PM

Until the consumer becomes a computer too. And yes I see how that can happen, my mind is total dystopia.