Caesar, we hardly knew ye! Image created by author in Midjourney edited in her cheap screen cap program

Let’s Not Use AI to Steal More Artists’ Livelihood? M’Kay?

AI art programs are using living artist work as the basis to make stuff to order … free of charge

Listen, any tool you can tell to do a picture of Marilyn Monroe partying with Julius Caesar at Studio 54 in the “Style of Shepard Fairey” and it comes up with this —

It didn’t want to put Caesar’s face on the first one either

which obviously is going to change the world, right?

So of course, the AI art programs are already making trouble for artists who currently have to do a lot of repetitive bullshit work to order for low amounts of money. However, I have news for people who think AI art will replace artists.

If this is your belief, it is going to “replace” artists the same way as Uber and Lyft “replaced” taxis and every other shit gig platform created ways for people to spend their time to eke out a subsistence living instead of doing something they actually want to do that might make life better for themselves and others.

AI art programs assemble images using verbal prompts from source material that apparently includes “the entire internet.”