I'm an artist, and I find DALL-E to be a very useful tool. I don't use any results I generate or call them my own. But, if I have an idea and I need help to properly visualize it? I'm really not the best at that, so a well-made prompt definitely helps fill in some gaps for me.
I think professional artists suffer, not artists in general. And, let's be real, think about the professional, human-made art you've been seeing in commercial spaces for the last 15 years, and ask yourself what we are really losing if human artists aren't generating mass quantities of unappealing garbage like this:
![[Image: business-coworkers-cartoons.jpg?s=612x61...AtkJNJxTc=]](https://media.istockphoto.com/id/1161652086/vector/business-coworkers-cartoons.jpg?s=612x612&w=0&k=20&c=qzOGHkNvwk8TT011j0sCZnbO63EUikT0HMAtkJNJxTc=)
Just because soulless corporate goons benefit from the technology doesn't mean it doesn't benefit anyone else. I feel that it's short-sighted to dismiss the entire technology just because it's not being operated by enlightened progressive minds who don't care about making money. As you yourself pointed out with your Marvel reference, pop culture and commercial spaces have been inundated with low-quality, mass-produced art for long enough now that it's hard to even argue for the novelty of commercial human art. How many artists derive their living from generating ungodly amounts of unappealing, utterly forgettable art, for a paycheck? What culture is being lost if they aren't doing that anymore? I feel for the humans whose careers and lives will be disrupted, but I would not advocate for neutering the technology just to artificially preserve demand for their skills. As if that would even be possible.
I think professional artists suffer, not artists in general. And, let's be real, think about the professional, human-made art you've been seeing in commercial spaces for the last 15 years, and ask yourself what we are really losing if human artists aren't generating mass quantities of unappealing garbage like this:
Just because soulless corporate goons benefit from the technology doesn't mean it doesn't benefit anyone else. I feel that it's short-sighted to dismiss the entire technology just because it's not being operated by enlightened progressive minds who don't care about making money. As you yourself pointed out with your Marvel reference, pop culture and commercial spaces have been inundated with low-quality, mass-produced art for long enough now that it's hard to even argue for the novelty of commercial human art. How many artists derive their living from generating ungodly amounts of unappealing, utterly forgettable art, for a paycheck? What culture is being lost if they aren't doing that anymore? I feel for the humans whose careers and lives will be disrupted, but I would not advocate for neutering the technology just to artificially preserve demand for their skills. As if that would even be possible.
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