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alexiuss t1_j64cqkp wrote

>artists could ever do will be fundamentally replaceable in a few years

This is a speculative statement like the doomsday prophecies about 2012 or 2020. We don't actually know how much AIs will impact Art economy or freelance artists because AI art has no copyright right now in lots of countries.

AI art is just a new medium of digital art, you can still draw with any other medium and make tons of money or you can adapt AI into your workflow as artist and make tons of money.

You must either train your marketing skills to become a freelancer or comic book artist or work for a corporation which might or might not fire you because of random reasons or study AIs + art.

Money in art isn't made with just drawing skills, it's mainly made by connections with people:

[1] more fans you have bigger your patreon income and shop sales are

or

[2] you're working for a corpo and the replacement period is VERY unclear because AIs have no rights whatsoever, but in near future you might need to learn AIs to work for a corpo.

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[deleted] OP t1_j64cumm wrote

If I have to hear “adapt AI into your workflow” one more time. It does not adapt into a workflow. Its purpose is to replace the entire process. The point of AI art is that there is no “workflow” because you are not working on it. The fact that anyone has to make any manual modifications to it to get what they want is considered a flaw to be fixed within the next few years. And do you really think people are going to pay for shit you’ve told an AI to make when they can just make it themselves for free?

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alexiuss t1_j64m1p7 wrote

>And do you really think people are going to pay for shit you’ve told an AI to make when they can just make it themselves for free?

You clearly don't understand what art is or how to make money with art.

People pay for a banana taped to a wall.

People pay for ARTISTS NAME, not the quality art. Why do amazing paintings at a garage sale cost 5 dollars but a painting from a certain artist costs 20 million dollars?

Just because you can get FREE water from a sink, doesn't mean people don't buy boatloads of bottled water or make other overpriced drinks. Same with commissions. Commissions will NEVER, EVER VANISH because free art is made by an ai.

Mass produced AI art that takes 4 seconds to do is worth NOTHING, it HAS NO COPYRIGHT.

A painting drawn by a famous artist is worth millions.

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[deleted] OP t1_j64mxs1 wrote

The people who pay for shit like bananas taped to walls are usually doing money laundering, but that’s another conversation

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alexiuss t1_j64o0cz wrote

I'm making a positive prediction based on my experience as AI designer and artist.

You're making a negative prediction.

We clearly can't agree because its just a prediction.

We'll see who wins in 5 years. :∆

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