Ask HN: What am I supposed to do after I’m “disrupted”? Work in video and CG
I am a 2d artist and I have similar feelings.<p>Are you as full of loathing for all the HN people saying “just integrate the AI into your practice” as I am? I <i>like</i> drawing stuff and I love that this pays my bills and I really have zero interest in becoming a “prompt engineer” instead.<p>I think a strategy of creating an image of AI art as cheap and tacky is useful. For how long, I don’t know. If we’re lucky then it’ll turn out that getting these things out of the domain of creepy claw hands is a lot harder than anyone thinks it will be, and there will be a lot of obvious tells for a long time.<p>It may also be useful to try and get your professional associations to bring some suits against these things for playing fast and loose with “fair use”. The legality of these things is debatable, and so’s where “fair use” should fall - personally I feel like nobody posting work on the internet anticipated their stuff being scraped and fed into a giant neural net designed to take their job. Make this shit a lot pricier by demanding that it be built on art <i>explicitly licensed</i> for machine training.<p>Figuring out where the intersection of “art you like to make” and “art the AI sucks at” lies is worthwhile. If your passion is realistic painterly work then you’re fucked, what do you enjoy doing that isn’t that?