This is like a nightmare Romanticist version of David Hasselhoff eating that burger

I've seen some videos completely AI generated that looked flawless yesterday. Every day I feel more and more uncertain I'll ever find a job again in the industry.

It's funny how in most old scifi they showed a future where we as a society had AI working labor intensive jobs but art was a human-only activity. I guess we didn't account for how bad capitalism was going to overpower our value.
- I think artists like Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have done a lot to preserve the humanity of art. For Andy, he would never need an AI to generate a soup can. Even if he did it's Andys commentary and perspective that is coveted. The same is true of the most intricate paintings or sculptures and their creators. Jackson showed us the act of making art is just as interesting as the art itself. An AI could pop out a million abstract pieces that looked exactly like a Pollock but... it will never be a Pollock. AI is no more a threat to art and the people who make art than the camera was.
- As of now, here is no humanoid AI robot replacing manual labor, just trained AI software/tools/APIs that run on computers and perform some specific and somewhat complex tasks.
You mean the generated anime scene stuff? Those DO use sketch frames made by a real artist who then uses AI to combine t he em into animation!
AI may be a crapshoot but it loves being given physical guidance. Don't tell it to draw a person, sketch a person and then tell the AI to turn that into a person.
Basic photoshop skills do work wonders. The better you are at art, the happier the AI will be to co-operate.
(Source: I do earn a small amount helping fix AI generated art and frequently get asked to doodle up base material)
- No, I don't think I've seen that one unless it's the corridor crew one, which to be fair still had a ton of work- but, no traditional animation though.
  I mean photorealistic stuff. And while it's still not exactly at the same level of quality a studio can produce, the rate at which it's progressing is jawdropping. It's already rough getting an artistic job at a studio; in five years from now I'd be surprised if those jobs aren't at least halved thanks to AI. Because as you said, AI cooperates really well.
- It's an invaluable tool for artists. It gets my vision out.
As an artist I've been loving bing to help me model and design characters based on my descriptions. I'm good at knowing what I want and good at drawing and sculpting but the middle step is what I have trouble with.
I've managed to create several new characters I've always wanted to and even put them in different poses and lighting and angles. It's freaking awesome!
- I am working on a homebrew for DnD 5e, may I know what tools you used? I have access to openai services ATM.
  I would like to try your iterative process to flesh out my characters!
- Holy shit, finally an artist not wishing the death of all AI image generation.
- Sure, it is awesome. That's not my point. Did you find employment or are you making a livable income thanks to that though?

Meanwhile, art creates by humans:

Hey, that's solid art
- Not for long.

What's going on with this guys elephant-man cock?

It's actually just the tip. It's all tip.
Fucking huge tip tho.
- Worst case of mushroom cock ever documented.
He leans on it, don't you see? That's his lean-knee-wee-nee.

I see he is very excited for that pizza

Tbf, I'd also be pretty excited if I could take a slice from a pizza and still somehow have a full pizza. Infinite pizza hack.
- I hate to break it to you, but nothings going in to that mouth. More like going out.
- You also get to grow hands out of your forearms
- the bugs and roadkill give it extra protein.
it's just so big and girthy.

This image is actually really compelling.

Weirdly enough this is a terrible example. I kinda like it (but for all the wrong reasons)

AI sure makes vegeta very veiny ahahaha!
- "Kakarrot! My whole body is erectile tissue! I've been gobbling heart pills for six weeks in a high gravity chamberrrrrr Kakkarrroooooooot!"
- Looks like a vinyl figure

Daamn he packin

Literal third leg

It's... It's beautiful.

the last temptation of the crust

We will become crabs eventually. We will also keep pizza. I see this as a prophecy.

The fact that one AI generated image looks incoherent or shitty doesn't mean that all AI generated images are.

A lot of them are like that and that's actually a good thing.
It'll be a little while before people can generate photographs that are indistinguishable from the real thing, completely destroying our ability to critically evaluate anything.
So we still have time to stop it.
- People can already, one has even won a contest.
  You can use offline image generation tools like Stable Diffusion if you have a powerful enough machine. Also, if someone generates an incoherent image and keeps it, it's mostly for the sake of it, because you can try generating the image over and over again until something good comes out while tweaking the prompt and the negative prompt.
- AI takes production out of the hands of corporations like Disney and into the hands of the people. You need a shit ton of money to hire hundreds of artists.
- Honest question, how old are you?

I could make the same meme but swap AI and real artist and as an example of the "real artist art" use my drawings (and I'm like really bad at drawing). It would make as much sense as this meme. But I can't really tell if it's some AI art hater meme or just a meme. I sometimes see people meaning memes similar to this deadly serious, so sorry if I'm being a nitpick.

Can you draw this?

Sure.
- You're the new novelty art account, congratulations.

AI art be like

Where's the head?
- On the shaft.

With the help if AI I will create the videogames I want without having to be Bethesda or some othe corporate grant. That's what's amazing.

Is that a third knee or a an absurdly massive dick?

Wait am I just really dumb and now noticing DALL-E == Dalí?
- A little, yeah. But thank you for opening up about it.

I think it's important to remember that any grotesque thing AI makes us is still drawing exclusively from human made examples. There's no aspect of what AI image generators generate that isn't derived from humans.

These images are monuments to humanity's vanity.

Calm down.
Is every painting, drawing, story, etc. ever created by anyone 'a monument to humanity's vanity'?
- No, but taking most of the collected creative works humanity has ever digitized and distributed electronically and literally making an engine to compile it and puke out ai generated derivative human works on demand certainly is.
  Trying to commoditize and mass produce the intrinsically elusive spark of human creativity is the height of vanity, and the often horrific results of it aren't at all surprising.
I disagree.
Using tools such as Stable Diffusion is like asking a malicious compliante genie a wish.
You have to account for all the "bad" things and use negative prompts for the things that you don't want, eg: "ulgy, deformed, extra limbs"
The aberrations don't really need to come from the training data itself, but are produced when content is generated with it.

Leaked screenshots of The Fly 3

Russell Brand hits rock bottom.

God help us when it realizes humans have 2 arms and 2 legs.

And five fingers per Hand!

Anyone send this to Brandon Herrera yet?

AI knows some things about the future we don’t yet realise.

The David Hsselhoff what?

Hot take. I've never seen this variation on the same meme over and over again.