I think all in all AI is a danger for everyone in the industry and there's no reason to sugar coat it.
Pure economics makes whatever hopeful expectation of advantage created by the AI generated medium irrelevant for anyone with a livelihood in the field. Being the creative genius may allow you to retain your employment, but rest assured, your income growth will decline and the next generation coming after you will be making less. The value of graphics will decline and so the money earned by the people making it will also decline. You're making truly creative work? Great, a company can just take your rendering and use it as the basis for an AI generated image to remove any licensing requirement. Good luck trying to prove original ownership. And who needs creativity anyway? How often are graphics used in commercial/retail/media enterprises really breaking the mold? Whatever shortcomings mentioned are already being mitigated by add-on AI systems (Tencent's ARC for instance) so there should be an expectation of rapid improvement in the coming years.
People employed in the field will likely adapt away from non-lucrative image generating work eventually, but the transition will be pretty painful and the overall effect will likely constrain incomes for creative work in general.
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I think all in all AI is a danger for everyone in the industry and there's no reason to sugar coat it.
Pure economics makes whatever hopeful expectation of advantage created by the AI generated medium irrelevant for anyone with a livelihood in the field. Being the creative genius may allow you to retain your employment, but rest assured, your income growth will decline and the next generation coming after you will be making less. The value of graphics will decline and so the money earned by the people making it will also decline. You're making truly creative work? Great, a company can just take your rendering and use it as the basis for an AI generated image to remove any licensing requirement. Good luck trying to prove original ownership. And who needs creativity anyway? How often are graphics used in commercial/retail/media enterprises really breaking the mold? Whatever shortcomings mentioned are already being mitigated by add-on AI systems (Tencent's ARC for instance) so there should be an expectation of rapid improvement in the coming years.
People employed in the field will likely adapt away from non-lucrative image generating work eventually, but the transition will be pretty painful and the overall effect will likely constrain incomes for creative work in general.