AI and AI Art

[Dirty Duck]

Ironically I've seen anecdotally, a lot of artists I know get excited about AI art capabilities but people who don't normally dabble in Art hate and detest it. People who actually work in the field seem to look forward to the way it could help cut down the time and hours it takes and crunch to make art for bigger projects, they'd still need to tweak and manipulate certain results depending on the quality of the project you're working on and you still need a creative mind to do that. This will probably be how we differentiate between slop and great works in the future but yeah, individual art is dead, no one will appreciate that anymore and that fucking sucks. But AI Art will only help much bigger projects DEPENDING on how it is used. 

Very anecdotally. Obviously there are gonna be artists who are fine with it but the lion’s share I’ve seen online and off are against it for various reasons. It’s more the people who don’t do art where it’s more up in the air whether they’re opposed or not.
Individual art is not dead. Even if this makes it harder for people making it to succeed it will always exist. The industry’s move to CGI over traditional animation did not mark the death of traditional animation. Art exists independent of industries and whatever decisions they’re making for profit. It’s important to support and root for that instead of shrugging and being like well this is the future now better get used to it. 

Saying AI is a good way to stop crunch is the wrong angle I feel. Crunch should be stopped by employing more artists or longer project times rather than by cutting the percentage of a project that is worked on by humans. It’s the latest in a long line of ways to not pay for what is needed for the massive project you plan to make bank off of.