What @Legendofgenii said. It cannot do consistent stuff. And it still mostly doing better at "abstract" pictures, you won't be able to make your characters exactly as you want them, picture after picture while making them actually do things you need them to do.
And, to be fair, you can close your comic under a paywall right here right now, before AI went to get all those Webtoon and Tapas front pages. Many artists are only showing their art (or most of their art) for money.
Someone did attempt to make one but the whole thing is just establishing shots. The creator also admitted most of the panels came from the film the Wickerman, so it's not really as "randomly generated" as some might claim.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed using Artbreeder to make realistic portraits of my characters! There’s no possible way I could’ve had this if I tried!
However, if AI was to take over artists as a whole, art as we know it is doomed. Nothing, not even with the most sophisticated of the technology we have should replace the humanity that art is and always should be. In that sense of AI, along with deepfake technology I am intrigued yet terrified by our future.
About that, I think you feed the AI information about your character like your character design images of the face, and expressions, and train the AI from the information you have given. This could be a possible feature, who knows?
I think there is room and an audience for everything.
There is a huge interest in AI because it is fascinating.
But there is no reason why it crush your mood
Yes I couldn’t agree with you more, AI is fascinating and really cool! However, I’m concerned it would replace the humanity in art.
I find it fascinating to be honest, and I’m still on the fence whether it will be good or bad for artists.
Will people still hire trad artists? Sure!
Will many big companies go with AI to save a buck? SURE!
Will it damage some peoples careers because of this? I really do think so.
Will there be a growing return appreciation for clients wanting hand drawn/painted work?
The more I think about it this very could be the case. And learning trad skills is important moving forward,
This "AI is just copying other things" well.... um...
We as humans are effectively copying everything from our environment, what we see, what we hear and what we experience to create.
AI is indeed in that early stage where it creates something from something else
But..
We do this. We just are not always aware we do this. But we do.
AI will advance. How it effects you personally is another matter. If creating makes you happier then create regardless of technical advancements. AI isn't going to stop you. It might prevent you from making a career at certain companies who choose the AI route, But would you really want to work for a company that does not appreciate your art?
But yes...my comic is hand drawn gimme all the money! XD
Interesting insight. Yes! It could be cool if I did that. I mean I only did these too imagine what my characters could look like as real people.
my thoughts exactly. I bet when cameras were first invented, artists thought they would be out of work but they're still here and kicking.
I have strong feelings towards paywalling, it creates a sense of bitterness. People will find a way to share and experience your work if they want it enough, it's impossible to prevent that. But I think art should be free to enjoy regardless. Ai generated images have no bearing on whether real artwork should be free.
Simple fact tho is that the audience don't care.
For them a comic isn't a piece of art to be studied or admired. It's a passing distraction while they're on the toilet or bus. Something they scroll through at breakneck speed. And if an AI delivers that distraction as well or better than you or me, they'll roll with it.
Since writing for popular media is as formulaic as can be (have you seen a Marvel movie?), and the public has shown a great willingness to throw huge piles of money at formulaic, AI generated scripts won't matter either once the hiccups are coded out.
And they've been conditioned to not pay for content, so we're not surviving that way.
Plus every company's goal is to make all of the money on the planet regardless of how they do it. Naver Webtoon, for example, is pretty naked in its exploitation of its content creators and you can be guaranteed that once Robot Artist can pump out its own version of All Of Us Are Dead to sell to Netflix, their flesh and blood creators will be shown the door. A harddrive on a shelf in Seoul will be far more profitable for them than Joo Dong-geun.
tl;dr- You're right to be worried about replacement because we all will be ASAP. And we'll be the only ones shedding a tear over it cuz "capitalism".
I gotta say, if there is an agreement in the future to make all hand drawn webtoons paywalled, I'm going to betray the shit out of you and keep posting my stuff for free anyway. My #1 priority is making my work accessible to as many people as possible; I AM going to be selfish about this.
This is the problem with commodifying passion-based work in general; capitalism is pretty much a game of hard-to-get, but if you're passionate about something, everyone knows you're 'easy to get' and I'd rather just admit that instead of playing the game. I feel like in an ideal world, we'd focus on maximizing everyone's free time (which should be the purpose of automation) and only treat as 'work' the logistically helpful stuff that keep us going and operate more efficiently (food, internet etc), and stuff like art would be stuff people do in their free time if they want to.
I don’t get the fear over ai Art replacing hand drawn art, because it seems like a copyright NIGHTMARE.
This is the first time I've ever seen someone put that into words...and I agree. I think when you live in this world as an artist, at some point you have to choose between chaining your passion to capitalistic standards, or allowing it to run free even if it may never be 'profitable'.
And that's why I decided to go to the engineering school instead of the art school. =T There are a lot of things upon which I don't mind basing my ability to eat, but MY art is not one of them. And not having that limitation is one thing that allows me to be relatively chill with possibilities like AI art taking over the market.
'Cause even if it happens, I'm still gonna draw comics. =/ I'm already competing with thousands of full-time harem/villainess/isekai comic artists that I have no chance of 'winning' against; if all those artists are replaced by AI copy-pasters nothing really changes for me.
And in a losing environment like that, charging the few people who might still come to see your work for the simple privilege of looking at something made by a human being doesn't sound like the smart play. In fact it sounds kind of greedy and desperate, and personally it's a rabbit hole I would rather not go down.
If it gets so tough out there that the only way for me to exist as a creative person is to just make things for free and hope people will like them as much or more than what advertisers push at them, then I'd rather just let it happen. It's...what I'm already doing... ^^;
I'll still be sad for all the working artists who will no longer be able to do what they love on the same scale, but at the same time I'm probably not going to join anyone in attempting to squeeze money out of whatever's left. If society decides that art isn't worth anything to them, fine. I'll just do it anyway.
I totally agree, also i would like to add: what many people don't understand (unfortunately also due to clickbait titles like "look what this ai drew") is that the ai don't draw the images from scratch but it takes illustrations and images already made by someone else and mix them.
what AI does is still incredible from a technological point of view but it is very misunderstood.
Well, I can expect then a lot of issues regarding copyright and intellectual property infractions.
AI is not generated out of nothing, is a miss and match from images taken from the internet, so you may get sued if someone's work is identified and the author hasn't provided any rights or permission to let other individuals to use their work in a certain way, as well, several webcomic platforms demand that your work is yours and should not infringe another person's copyright, trademark or intellectual property.
So I can imagine several webcomics generated with AI trying to make their way in Webtoon, Tapas and other platforms, just to get taken down by constant reports and emails from fellow creators within the platforms or legal action from the original artists.
We as content creators are going to always be fighting against the new entertainment, no matter it's shape, if it's human, human-made, etc. Maybe I'm too dead inside, maybe I'm just vibing and living a well deserved chill life, I don't know. But to me this ain't the end of the world
