"Is AI Coming For Commercial Art?" Same with videogames, where commercial artists hone their skills for years to score plum jobs like concept artist and character designer. "The Muse in the Machine," an original piece of artwork generated by the Stable Diffusion AI using a ... [+] simple prompt and referencing the styles of several different artists. The hardest part of [a commercial art project] is often at the beginning, when the stakeholder doesn’t know what they want and has to see some ideas to react to. And even if the narrow issue of compensating living artists is addressed, it won’t solve the larger threat of a simple tool deskilling and demonetizing the entire profession of commercial art and illustration.

Source: Forbes September 17, 2022 04:46 UTC