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Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by theptip on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:54PM (#32653135)
I think putting some graphics artists out of business is one side of the coin. The other side of the coin is creating new jobs for people with good visual taste and imaginative ideas, who did not pass the skill barrier previously required to actually create good art.

Presumably we need fewer of the new more efficient jobs to displace the work done by the old jobs. But that lowers the price of ”mediocre” graphics, and therefore increases demand; maybe we actually end up with more jobs at the more accessible level.

These market dynamics are quite hard to predict but either way, bad time to be an entry level professional artist, great time to be just about anyone else.

Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by jameshart on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:35PM (#32653535)
This is a good take.

Look at music production: historically the barriers to music creation were the dexterity and practice needed to master an instrument, or multiple instruments.

But when you put tools in the hands of more people without the filter of needing the time, training and skill to coax the sounds in your head from the instrument you have… and suddenly you get stuff nobody was making before.

Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by Jevon23 on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:27PM (#32655341)
>The other side of the coin is creating new jobs for people with good visual taste and imaginative ideas, who did not pass the skill barrier previously required to actually create good art.

I mean. Do you think that there are people out there with good taste in software and imaginative ideas, who can’t pass the skill barrier currently required to write code?

Why would art be any different?

Re:4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything by theptip on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:37PM (#32655467)
I think art is a combination of physical skill and conceptual taste/ability, among other things. The skill part is non-trivial.

Software seems like mostly thought-stuff to me, there’s no mechanical skill-based piece. But even so, when AI can generate a full app with the ease of iteration displayed in the OP, then sure, I think you’ll see some people with app ideas generating those apps themselves, instead of having to hire contract developers. Right now just completing stubs of functions doesn’t seem useful enough to allow someone that can’t code to make an app.