Why DALL-E will not steal my job as an illustrator
One of things AI still cannot do is create things out of whole cloth. They still are trained on pre-existing data and create new things based on what they are trained on. One example of this is Japanese Anime and Manga styles which have changed since the 80s till now. You can tell which era an artwork is from by looking at the style. Like a lot of art, the medium goes through phases which arise by individual artists making small changes which influence other artists, and so on. The actual &quot;creation&quot; then of style really isn&#x27;t a single creative event, but it is a social process which develops over time from the culmination of additions from different artists, more or less unintentionally. Once in a while, one artist or another may be so influential that they inspire many from one artwork, but usual the development is more gradual.<p>At least as it has been done so far, AI cannot reproduce what is essentially the result of a social process, which is the true source of creativity. The NNs so far can just reproduce what it is already trained on which is already the result of existing works in the current style since that&#x27;s all it has to train on, and I don&#x27;t know how to a NN can reproduce a &quot;social process&quot; without merely recreating a community of artists.