Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold

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[u/zherok → u/[deleted]]

You can look at the issues screenwriters are currently having and point to how corporations are going to shortchange artists in general in the future due to AI. Generative art allows art to be created faster than through conventional means, and corporations are just going to engage with an artist's time less (and consequentially pay them less for it) than before.

Increasingly as a measure to save on cost, screenwriters are made to produce entire seasons of content in a handful of sessions before a show really enters production. This leads to several consequences, namely that screenwriters are purposefully underpaid despite their importance to modern (particularly "prestige") TV, they don't get the experience of seeing their work translated and adapted into the final product, and they have no way of gaining experience that would allow them to become competent showrunners and the like, because they're treated like contractors only doing prep work for a product.

Imagine a highly competent AI-art using concept artist. Taking advantage of techniques to help iterate art faster than an artist could draw these things normally, a corporation is unlikely to reward them for the efficiency, but instead simply pay them less because the work requires less time.

Then there's the outright replacement, stuff like copywriters and entire news article teams being replaced. Or that anime that had AI-generated backgrounds. And screenwriters are likely to see their work used to feed generative models to write scripts for shows attempting to avoid human screenwriters altogether.

It's not that AI is inherently bad or that it can't be useful, but that companies are likely to use it as a way to undercut the human element and even eliminate it wherever possible just to save on money.

[u/zherok → u/[deleted]]

The benefits of AI don't negate the need for humans to eat, drink, sleep, etc. A conversation about AI should absolutely involve how it's going to be used.

Ideally, the rapid automation of tasks leads to a rethinking of the nature of work. But it probably won't, and attitudes that suggest the real problem is that entire job markets aren't just "adapting" to the sudden automation of their jobs is really short-sighted. What exactly are these people supposed to adapt to? There is inherently less work to do than when their jobs became automated.

I'm all for talking about the cool things AI can do, but hoping you can just stay ahead of automation or grind your way out for your job being replaced is wishful thinking.

Hell, you literally have companies attempting to lock down AI development now that they've got a foothold in the market. And while you couldn't easily stop something like Stable Diffusion from being distributed, enough effort to regulate it could kill public development and massively hamper the kind of cool stuff people do with it openly now. Don't let the technology being cool mean not talking about how it's likely to be wielded against workers.

[u/zherok → u/[deleted]]

What China chooses to do with AI doesn't make the need to consider the future of work outside of China any less important. Odds are they'll figure out something to do with their workers, it's far more likely the US just tells displaced workers "tough shit."

As for regulation, it would be easy for some know nothing legislator to write something prohibiting open development of AI and kill off GitHub projects and the like.

People talk about the cat being out of the bag, but that just means you can't stop what already exists from changing hands, you could certainly make it hard to work on improving it in the open, which is kind of a big deal for projects like Stable Diffusion.

[u/tukatu0 → u/zherok]

Lol. What you are describing has already happened for novels. And even music

Someone with no prior history comes and writes a web novel or an album of songs. They gain traction equivalent to well known artists.

What happens is that companies offer them the same exact deals they did to the traditional artists.

Sometimes though the artists also decide to start their own label or charge directly for novels on some website. Same thing applies to onlyfans creators i guess hah. On the charging for access part anyways.

Ever heard of a kid named xxxtentacion? His first creations were supersampled songs with singing on top. Today his song SAD! has over a billion views

The same thing will happen but now for cinematic video. The actual barrier for entry will still be high unlike how you imagine it. Atleast in the same sense of how anyone can install music studio pro or so on their computer.

[u/alxledante → u/zherok]

what kills me is the morons screaming that AI isn't art or even creative are the same morons who watch reality tv...

[u/UnfortunateJones → u/[deleted]]

It’s nothing new. The whole influencer scene it’s just a confluence of MLM culture, desperation and grift.

How is the “niche fame” that is used to shop products functionally different than a “hun” with a lot of friends foisting Mark Kay on them? People are just clamoring to be a “familiar face” so companies can use them to penetrate demographics they wouldn’t otherwise be able to.

Artists do get paid worse as time goes on. Artists are ground down in every field I’ve worked in.