Are you talented enough, my friend?
Only talented people should be able to create images and videos using generative AI. This opinion comes from Henrik Tam, the professional illustrator who worked on the first Shrek movie. In Svenska Dagbladet, he writes that it is wrong for the general public to be able to create images and videos using generative AI.
“It's wrong to say that anyone can do this even if they don't have a talent for visual art.'' If I were to do it, I'd like it to only be done by people like myself, “people who already have a talent for making pictures.''
These AI tools constitute an “existential threat” to everyone working in creative professions, he argues.
With that attitude, your job is teeth blackmailed
If you have the attitude that Henrik Tam encourages, then yes, your job is definitely under threat. But fortunately, that's not the only approach to AI.
You can also embrace AI and take yourself to a new level.
You (or Henrik) may think it's easy to say that no one's job is threatened. But my work is heavily influenced by generative AI. ChatGPT's most notable feature is text creation, so it will probably affect writers more than illustrators. Writing is my main job.
I chose a different approach than Henrik Tamm. I've been trying to learn everything I can about generative AI. So I created the AI ​​writer WALL-Y. This has made my news writing job five times faster. I hope that someday she will be able to do everything herself. Thanks to that, you can devote your time to more qualitative tasks, such as writing the text you are reading now.
You need time to read, think, and reflect on the issues covered in Warp News. The thought process is increasingly happening with ChatGPT. I bounce ideas and text and receive feedback on my text (all of this text has typos, so I can claim that it's not my fault that the AI ​​made a mistake). Please take a look!)
But can't AI do this job too? Yes, it will happen and it doesn't have to be that far away. So what should we do? I don't know, but I believe there is an opportunity to significantly level up ourselves with the help of various AI tools. For example, instead of me writing the text, I create more and better text that controls the direction of what is written. These texts can also be converted into several different formats of video and audio, as well as several different types of text, so those of you who follow Warp News can receive them the way you like. Masu. Or maybe my role will be to communicate these opinions in a different way.
I'll probably keep writing too. It's a lot of fun for me and helps me organize and understand my thoughts. I don't know if anyone wants to read my writing, but it's really no different than it is today. Fierce competition for readers' time and attention has already begun.
My purpose here is not to quibble with myself or to diss Henrik Tamm, but our different perspectives can help us understand how we can approach this age of AI (and change in general). It expresses it well.
centaur blade
So far, it has been shown that those who are good at using AI tools will be the winners in the era of generative AI. You don't need to be an expert in text, images, music, or whatever you create with AI to begin with, but you do need to be really adept at using AI. (Wally and I wrote it together in the book.)
This means, to borrow Henrik Tam's rhetoric, that many untalented people will be able to create things they couldn't do before. not bad. On the contrary, it is good that more people's creativity benefits humanity.
Of course, if you're trying something you love and have spent thousands of hours getting good at, the transition can be difficult. But honestly, you just have to bite the bullet. It's not fair or unfair, it just is. That's not the end. You can move forward. And if over time you accept new things and move forward spontaneously, you suddenly become one of the pioneers of a new era. It's not that bad.
Matthias Sundin
angry optimist
Henrik Tamm also means that the generated AI is based on stolen content.I respond So far in Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish)
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