What do artists think about Stable Diffusion ?
Will artists be replaced by AI ?
Recently, the company Stability AI announced the public release of the AI art model Stable Diffusion, which lets anyone generate images by using text prompts. Furthermore, Stable Diffusion is available as open-source that means anyone can take its backbone and build it for free, creating practically any visual reality they can envision.
I’m really in trouble. Probably my job will be taken over by AI in the future, but..
Over the centuries, the talent of painting has always been an indispensable factor in the art industry, and it is also an essential skill that most people cannot be easily trained. However, at this moment, this rule has been completely disintegrated.
“Should I change my career path as soon as possible?”
Wait Wait…Calm down. As a designer, I was freaking out when the news came. But do not forget, we are the ones that are creative and flexible. Let us figure out how to breakthrough, or it is a good time to bury the hatchet with AI.
Below are some viewpoints to show what are the pros and cons of Stable Diffusion, as well as how it affects a typical artist workflow:
Threat to artist
- Stable Diffusion lower the bar on painting skill, and lets people who do not have any art related experience build amazing images easily.
- In some cases, AI art generators decrease time and costs.
Restraint of AI art
- AI models always rely on the creation of artists for training and optimizing.
- There are some implicit costs, such as each tasks may require specific training data, where to collect data legally, what is the terms and conditions, etc.
- In terms of specific requirement, it is difficult for users to meet the needs by instructions and settings.
How artists collaborate with AI
- Let AI be your best assistant, such as using Ai generate diverse examples as proposals, or a research engine.
- It would bring more positive effects to artistic creation if AI artwork could be exported as vector files, and be layered. For example, secondary creation, adjustment for specific details, etc.
- Be the expert of AI art.
Final thoughts
Despite AI Art do bring a huge challenge to artists, however it can never replace the creativity and flexibility of artists. The world is going to change forever, therefore, we should have open-minded to embrace the changes of technology, and make good use of the benefits, conveniences, to start a new types of workflow.
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