Re:AI won’t make artists redundant – thanks to information t...
by Oxidation on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:31AM
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> seems like drawing skills will go the way of the horse and carriage.
The exact same thing happened to technical drafters when CAD destroyed the entire (sub-)industry.
And to typesetting, for that matter[1].
Which is a pity in the human sense and the sense that both were forms of artistry and produced things of great beauty, both the product and the machines used to enable them, but they're simply not economical in the face of Solidworks and digital composition. And yet the replacement technologies have also enabled a lot more creativity and further advances. Object with complex geometries are now easy to manufacture, when they previously could not even be accurately drawn, say.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute, where not only could the unions not simply oppose the rising sea-level of technology, but their failure seriously damaged union credibility in general.
The exact same thing happened to technical drafters when CAD destroyed the entire (sub-)industry.
And to typesetting, for that matter[1].
Which is a pity in the human sense and the sense that both were forms of artistry and produced things of great beauty, both the product and the machines used to enable them, but they're simply not economical in the face of Solidworks and digital composition. And yet the replacement technologies have also enabled a lot more creativity and further advances. Object with complex geometries are now easy to manufacture, when they previously could not even be accurately drawn, say.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute, where not only could the unions not simply oppose the rising sea-level of technology, but their failure seriously damaged union credibility in general.