> Finally, an opinion popular with no one: Commercial illustrators will keep their jobs, but will mostly need to learn to use AI as a part of their workflow to maintain a higher pace of work.
> This doesn’t mean illustrators will stop drawing and become prompt engineers. That will waste an immense amount of training and gain very little. Instead, I foresee illustrators concentrating even more on capturing the core features of an image, letting generative AI fill in details, and then correcting those details as necessary.
I'm not sure why they think this is unpopular with no one. This seems like the logical path forward. In the same way that CoPilot isn't going to replace me but it's makes certain boilerplate much less painful and avoids the "blank page"/"writers lock" that can happen when I go to write a function sometimes. It's just nicer to start from something then modify it until I have what I need (even if I end up replacing 80-99% of it).
In the same way I imagine it would be nice for an artist to see a couple of examples of what their line drawing could be which will spark some creativity and then they can do what they want.
Right, that opinion is popular with me: I love the idea that commercial illustrators can add generative AI to their toolbox. Those are the illustrators I most want to work with: people who can produce the best possible images using the whole suite of tools available to them.
> This doesn’t mean illustrators will stop drawing and become prompt engineers. That will waste an immense amount of training and gain very little. Instead, I foresee illustrators concentrating even more on capturing the core features of an image, letting generative AI fill in details, and then correcting those details as necessary.
I'm not sure why they think this is unpopular with no one. This seems like the logical path forward. In the same way that CoPilot isn't going to replace me but it's makes certain boilerplate much less painful and avoids the "blank page"/"writers lock" that can happen when I go to write a function sometimes. It's just nicer to start from something then modify it until I have what I need (even if I end up replacing 80-99% of it).
In the same way I imagine it would be nice for an artist to see a couple of examples of what their line drawing could be which will spark some creativity and then they can do what they want.