I guess the big difference is there are people who enjoy making art. I’m not sure anyone particularly enjoys turning a screwdriver, even if they enjoy the larger process of making things.

Nothing. It used to be much more difficult to gain the tools to learn and practice the skills you need to even be an artist. Now those tools and education are so widely available, there are more artists. The increase in the supply of artists has driven down the price people are willing to pay for professional art,…

usually released as part of the various entertainment giants’ quarterly reports to their shareholders.

Judging from the abundance of AI passing for the real thing on Facebook, I don’t think most people either notice or care, so I don’t expect the companies to care. Most of the stuff I see gives itself away pretty easily (but I’ve been fooled). I’m grateful for the people who have such a good eye that they can point out…

Many of our artists are considered “visionaries” (and I would agree). And I don’t want to get all ‘romantic’ about this, but part of their purvey, traditionally, has been to show us what we’d rather not see. This is why fascist/totalitarian/authoritative regimes suppress and even disappear them. I’m not suggesting…

Not necessarily. A lot of artists have to meet strict deadlines their publishers can’t push, and mistakes can sneak in if there isn’t enough time to catch them. Think of the numerous stories over the years of basic Photoshop mistakes making their way into professional, nationally-distributed magazines (sometimes even…

Yeah, fuck that status quo of (checks notes) businesses paying talented professionals for quality work.

It never fails to amaze (and sadden) me that so much effort is being put into getting machines to replicate something that humans do so easily. Is it hard to draw and write well? Sure, but it’s hard to do anything to a high standard. But writing and drawing at all is something humans do all the time, often quite…

Because most (not all, but most) of “the other jobs” were either dangerous, menial, disgusting, or any combination of the three.

Only if you're a neckbeard. 

It was my understanding that these AIs need an incredible amount of sourced materials (i.e. actual art supplied or stolen from human artists) in order to even attempt to create an image based on a prompt. I used one to generate a profile pic and it took me several tries to get it to write two letters.  Apparently the…

There’s than nonsensical belch of 90s-skateboarder-esque ‘tude we always get sooner or later. HURBLDY BURBLDY STATUS QUO BROHEIMOS!

No, these are the swan boats in Echo Park:

So, all you people who have been saying it was just a few pictures in Late Night with the Devil and only complete idiots would think it’s anything to be concerned about have anything to say about this?

Isn’t the bigger issue that powerful studios with deep pockets and lots of resources are using *sloppy* AI content? 

Dammit, A24, I thought you were cool.

Absolutely sooner. Look at the exponential improvement since Dall-E Mini launched to now. If things continue to improve at the same insane pace, in a year we’ll no longer to be able to detect the hand of AI in an image with the naked eye, even when zooming in and scrutinizing it. Our only hope will be that…

Any human artist who made these sort of basic mistakes would be told to try again, if not outright fired.

And ending with the misadventure of that wacky ghost the Babadook show 

J. Michael Straczynski has written quite a bit about his time in a cult, and one thing he keeps coming back to is that they never start with the really crazy-sounding stuff. Instead they give you something just a bit out of your comfort zone at most, and then once you’ve accepted that, it becomes easier to accept…