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RandyT:
No arcade machines in these. Try as I might, I couldn't get the AI to incorporate them into this type of work. So, I went for the "happy little trees" instead. I think the companies with oil-paint printers, who crank out generic living-room paintings, are about to fire their art staff :(

Zebidee:
I'm sure they must be trembling and losing sleep!

There will be changes, some will need to adapt, but "real" artists will have as much job security as they have ever have. That isn't always saying a lot.

Technology, art and artists move along together.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Zebidee on September 20, 2022, 08:13:15 pm ---Technology, art and artists move along together.

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I think Greg Rutkowski understands the biggest concern for great artists (he is definitely one), and that is name dilution on the internet. With artists, their name is their brand. In one sense, he has now basically become a household word in less than a month, when few outside of aficionados knew who he was prior. That's a pretty amazing feat. But if you search for him now on the web, you'll get a few proper hits and likely millions of AI generated works tagged with his name.

They say emulation is the greatest form of flattery, and that is true. But it can destroy the very thing being emulated.

But as for the art itself, I think some out there aren't seeing the true potential for what they have been given. Artists can now do a fairly complete simulation of an art idea before ever laying pencil to paper, and that in only a few minutes. After about an hour, they could be presented with 100 potential compositions for that idea to choose from. Out of that 100, there will likely be 10's of compositions they hadn't or wouldn't have ever considered. Someone like Greg has an amazing advantage. The AI already knows him and he didn't need to do a thing to make that happen. Their "productivity" will get a boost that they probably can't now imagine, which will be good because I believe that demand for their works will increase, rather than decrease.

There's a good parallel to be drawn from the music industry. Record labels used to spend huge amounts of time and money schmoozing with every dinky radio station across the entire country. Few know this, but those giveaways handed out by the stations in the form of contests, etc. are mostly freebies from the record companies. They can't literally pay the station to play their music, so there's a lot of "one-hand-washing-the-other." "Hit" songs don't just happen, they have to be created. And this happened not in the recording studio, but in the radio studios. The more often a song is heard, the more it burrows into the brain of the consumer. And once the neural pathways form to provide enjoyment to the listener from that song, the more likely it becomes that the listener will seek out other works from the same artist. Do that to enough people and the money valve opens wide.

I can imagine that at some point in the near future, mostly average people will look at a painting in someone's collection and say to the owner "Is that a real Rutkowski?... Wow!" :)

Mike A:

--- Quote ---Few know this, but those giveaways handed out by the stations in the form of contests, etc.
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Wait a minute. Those dinky radio stations didn't buy front row tickets to concerts with their own money?

Or all of the albums and swag?

Gee Randy, Tell us all more secrets that everybody already knows.

Derp.

"Few know this"

Seriously. Get over yourself.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Mike A on September 21, 2022, 10:46:53 am ---Seriously. Get over yourself.

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I worked in a radio station hand-in-hand with the station's program director as a computer programmer responsible for generating playlists, so I KNOW this. You ASSUMED it.

BTW, were you born a jerk or did it take years of practice?

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