Authenticity, proving authenticity, will be a big deal in future.
On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
Remember Print Shop Pro?
In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.
> On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
People didn't stop desktop publishing. Almost everyone is doing it in some shape or form - from something as simple as drafting a CV, or writing a homework essay, or creating a simple form for their hobby club, is making use of text-layout technology where previously you would do this by hand (with a ruler, and handwritten/typewritten text) and then photocopied times however many copies you need.
Desktop publishing/typesetting has become so ubiquitous that it's effectively invisible and "just a thing that computers do nowadays". Perhaps the same thing will happen to AI art.
Have you actually tried to use these AI art tools? They are amazing but they rarely give you what you're looking for unless it's something obvious, like "A painting of statue of liberty in van gough style", even then it's not that great a of the time, extremely impressive, but these systems can't read your mind. Yes they seem to come close but the best results seem to be when you "create" with them, or else you just have to accept what's generated. Which is quite different to actually designing something.
It's an insanely crazy thing to watch the MJ Discord though, woah. However "draw a cartoon in the style of Ghibli" kind of get's boring and it's not original. It meses stuff up too, subtle enough to not be easy notice, but you do notice it eventuall.
You also realize many of these these model have a style of their own you have to work with, or work around to produce something new.
On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
Remember Print Shop Pro?
In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.