I’ve anticipated losing my job to AI for 6 years now. I expected style replication and high quality generative art to be accessible by 2021. I’m a year off, but I think it’s close enough. So I want to share what I think is
AI filters have already decreased the need for some photography services for many. I’ve seen people ask for a photographer and they don’t need the images retouched, because they can use a filter themselve
Need a product shot in environment? Just drop it in. Now you can skip using a set designer, prop stylist, producer, set assistants, and simply produce a product photo in-house
The best and biggest names will be safe for a while. AAA studios will keep hiring the best people, magazines that hire me will still hire me (or not), top actors and models are fine. Mid-level animation and video will be safe for a bit longer, because of resources/computing power. The first to go today are smaller, indie illustrators, retouchers, writers—where the work delivered is standalone and doesn’t interface with other parts of productions
Book covers, marketing illustrations, poster art, etc, all fall under that. A nice pattern on the throw pillow or dress in the store? That was someone’s job.
believe human-made art will survive—on a smaller scale. It will likely become a niche like what handmade goods are for us today in a world of mass production.
What I want is a community where artists are prioritized.
To watch the best human player in the world be defeated so completely—we thought that wouldn’t happen for another 10, 20 years. Technology was freaking incredible and I felt that elation, no question. But my heart was also crushed. I paid more attention after that
