You’re thinking about it from the perspective of a professional artist. But put yourself in the shoes of someone who’s not an artist and would like free art. The implications for artists who want to get paid might be bad, but even as an occasional artist myself, I have to admit most of the results in the article would be hard to distinguish as computer generated, if shown on their own in a different context. I don’t agree that AI pictures will never have any Aura - in some sense the opposite is true, some amount of Aura may be guaranteed because the inputs have it. The Aura is only lost when you assign the ‘machine generated’ narrative, when you know the story and already have opinions about whether it’s good.
People who want cheap but unique abstract art for their house, small business owners who need ad clip art but don’t have the budget for a designer, even artists using DallE queries to generate launchpad ideas, I can imagine many reasons DallE would get used. But also don’t forget to imagine the future, this is one of the first and it’s bound to be improved until you can’t distinguish it from “real” art.
There’s a valid point in your comment about how artists currently look at AI, and a valid question about what AI produced art actually means, so I’m throwing you an upvote because I don’t think you deserved to get downvoted for sharing your opinion. Maybe more importantly, AI generated art could challenge and rekindle the age old debate about what art actually is, and bring a new perspective to the table.
Thank you. I actually basically said that I'm in awe at what Dall•e is capable of, it's just that we've seen a lot of these watershed moments for AI creativity, and to be fair it's always the people who don't really work with art that call them this way.
You know what's really impressive, that just got out? Adobe's Premiere Pro Auto Color feature based on Adobe Sensei. Ask a colorist or a filmmaker how it works for them. Is that something that was possible because of fringe research like Dall•E? Honestly, no.
What you say about supposed watershed moments is true, but I don't think it leads to the conclusion you want it to.
As someone who designs and makes fine furniture (not the way I make my living, but I do know the business), I know that there will likely always be some demand for custom, hand made pieces, because people assign value both to getting exactly what they want, and to the fact that something is human and hand made. When people who value those things have enough money, they'll spring for that value. But I'm well aware that the bespoke and hand made will never be more than a 3rd decimal place rounding error in the ocean of factory made furniture that fills our homes and workspaces. Images can go the same way, and will, if the price differential is right. Most images in the "image marketplace" are not art, after all, but rather anonymous commodity visuals augmenting the presentation of an idea, or product.
People who want cheap but unique abstract art for their house, small business owners who need ad clip art but don’t have the budget for a designer, even artists using DallE queries to generate launchpad ideas, I can imagine many reasons DallE would get used. But also don’t forget to imagine the future, this is one of the first and it’s bound to be improved until you can’t distinguish it from “real” art.
There’s a valid point in your comment about how artists currently look at AI, and a valid question about what AI produced art actually means, so I’m throwing you an upvote because I don’t think you deserved to get downvoted for sharing your opinion. Maybe more importantly, AI generated art could challenge and rekindle the age old debate about what art actually is, and bring a new perspective to the table.