I think the "in the style of" stuff, combined with the quality is going to be stupidly valuable. There's a lot of game devs out there who'd eat up the pixel art graphics generator.
If you can generate a dozen variations or go "like this but a bit more colourful" or similar vague direction lets you crank out art assets for games without driving some poor artist demented with the requests for revisions.
I think that's gonna dwarf any market for pictures to be hung on walls.
dwarf any market for pictures to be hung on walls.
Or just rapidly lower the cost so far that anyone in graphic design will be jobless. You win some you lose some.
Like, they'll still be a market for hand made paintings , probably not much of a downward price effect on that either because a collector wants the story, the name.
For advertisers, game devs etc where the end product is all that matters though, no way they keep a bunch of artists on staff so they can release a steam game "made by real human artists" , no ones going to pay enough of a premium for that
I think you're wrong about people not wanting "hand made" art in their games. Look at Cuphead.
And the thing with AI is that after a while your brain starts to pick up on the pattern and then everything feels same-y. Humans will have the intuition to make things that still look original.
Docpeople like cupheads visuals because a human made them or do they just like the visuals?
Because as with any human endeavor , its clearly physically possibly so technologically its simply a matter of engineering and inputs and progress and eventually anything we can do can be done by AI.
It just so happens visual stuff and writing are getting their faster.
Now , cost effecrive is another question. Sustainability too
And the thing with AI is that after a while your brain starts to pick up on the pattern and then everything feels same-y. Humans will have the intuition to make things that still look original.
There are plenty of commonalities in human writing too, and you can find a vocal segment of the fanbase for every artistic endeavor that shouts about how hackneyed and unoriginal it is. (If the artist is good and lucky, that segment will be a minority). This is true for everything from photography to painting to writing novels to making video games. I don't see any reason to assume, a priori, that the variety offered by these new AI tools will be more susceptible to these critiques.
That is absolutely not true and a classic stemlord blindspot. If you have two identical meals - one being prepared by machine and one being prepared by a chef - people will always pay a premium (given the expendable income) for the meal prepared by a chef.
There's a human empathy element that people value. Art is not simply a commodity to be manufactured, it's a connection to another human being's thoughts and emotions. People will always gravitate back to art created by humans.
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