AI Was Supposed to Do the Boring Tasks, It’s Doing the Fun Ones instead
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When humanity started to dream about Artificial Intelligence, the vision was always that the programs would do the tedious and repetitive jobs and we could spend our time being creative and working on passion projects.
Now, this vision has been turned upside down by the first widely-used AI algorithms like Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT. Instead of helping us with the tasks that nobody wants to do, they are mostly used for creative applications which a lot of people are passionate about and enjoy.
It started with the image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, or DALL·E. These programs can create new images in a few seconds, which would take human artists tens or even hundreds of hours. A lot of people — myself included — love making art. In fact, there are so many people who enjoy it that the market is saturated and it’s very cheap to commission an artist, which makes it difficult to earn a living from art. While these algorithms are a very interesting technology, they don’t really serve an urgent need and only drive the prices for art even lower than they already are, thus creating even more starving artists. Not to mention the copyright issues with the training data for these models.
