06-14-2023, 08:09 PM
I have been thinking this past week or so, about what will happen with AI again. If you're already sick of that topic, now's the time to just scroll down, sorry.
I was reading this post on a new, impressive AI music generator, and a musician commented something like, "Have you guys tried talking to an artist and paying them or even just getting them to work for free for practice? The music world is saturated with tons of musicians who would like to work on your project, whatever it is."
And the responses just opened my eyes. One was like, "Why would I interact with another person when I can hit the same button a hundred times instead?" And another, "If I'm working on my project, I don't want to have to sync up with someone else and wait for them to iterate, take feedback, and get back to me later. I want to have a bunch of options in front of me and to simply pick one." A lot of the comments were like this. If the human art was better overall, fine, but it comes with all the messiness of having to deal with the human. And not dealing with the human is highly desirable.
AI is here to stay in some form or another, so betting on it being made illegal is not going to work in the long term. If the AI companies are forced to pay artists, or even if they end up charging, it will still be cheaper than hiring an artist.
Add to that, the online world was already flooded with content. Your painting was already lost in a sea of other paintings, forgotten almost the instant it appeared on the internet. Now the ocean of content is millions of times larger and the space any singular artist occupies has shrunken dramatically to almost be microscopic.
This solidified the idea that any individual image, song, etc. is no longer a thing that has value. Only a larger project has value, and this is a direct effect of generative AI. The only way to stand out and to create something of value is to make something more than images, songs, etc. It's whole product now or nothing at all, it has no value. Whether that is a comic, a game, a movie, whatever. It's nowhere near enough to try to compete with AI generated imagery that can be created at the press of a button.
Anyway, with that in mind, I've gone back to working on this game project I had going. I still will draw for fun, and for making comics, but I've scrapped any plans to do one-off commissions.
The game project, Survival on the Droid Moon, is also inspired by all the AI crap going on. I might start doing devlog type youtube videos so I'll save myself some typing.
I'm going to brush the cobwebs off Blender tomorrow and start modeling this thing.
![[Image: 7a1b2ea29dbe8ae4de08c0ed62b182b803e379ef.pnj]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/425cf5d8c1d5ddac1f00b82cfa68f207/e36e9107d957abbf-09/s2048x3072/7a1b2ea29dbe8ae4de08c0ed62b182b803e379ef.pnj)
I was reading this post on a new, impressive AI music generator, and a musician commented something like, "Have you guys tried talking to an artist and paying them or even just getting them to work for free for practice? The music world is saturated with tons of musicians who would like to work on your project, whatever it is."
And the responses just opened my eyes. One was like, "Why would I interact with another person when I can hit the same button a hundred times instead?" And another, "If I'm working on my project, I don't want to have to sync up with someone else and wait for them to iterate, take feedback, and get back to me later. I want to have a bunch of options in front of me and to simply pick one." A lot of the comments were like this. If the human art was better overall, fine, but it comes with all the messiness of having to deal with the human. And not dealing with the human is highly desirable.
AI is here to stay in some form or another, so betting on it being made illegal is not going to work in the long term. If the AI companies are forced to pay artists, or even if they end up charging, it will still be cheaper than hiring an artist.
Add to that, the online world was already flooded with content. Your painting was already lost in a sea of other paintings, forgotten almost the instant it appeared on the internet. Now the ocean of content is millions of times larger and the space any singular artist occupies has shrunken dramatically to almost be microscopic.
This solidified the idea that any individual image, song, etc. is no longer a thing that has value. Only a larger project has value, and this is a direct effect of generative AI. The only way to stand out and to create something of value is to make something more than images, songs, etc. It's whole product now or nothing at all, it has no value. Whether that is a comic, a game, a movie, whatever. It's nowhere near enough to try to compete with AI generated imagery that can be created at the press of a button.
Anyway, with that in mind, I've gone back to working on this game project I had going. I still will draw for fun, and for making comics, but I've scrapped any plans to do one-off commissions.
The game project, Survival on the Droid Moon, is also inspired by all the AI crap going on. I might start doing devlog type youtube videos so I'll save myself some typing.
I'm going to brush the cobwebs off Blender tomorrow and start modeling this thing.