End of An Artist's Career? A.I. Creates Art for You! - Complete Guide

Will A.I. take over artists? Explore the INSANE world of AI Art and Midjourney, and learn how you can get started with generating art using Artificial Intelligence. Right from discovering the insanity of AI and the incredible images it can create to learning some of the most advanced codes for getting the best results, we will cover it all.

In this guide, we will cover every aspect of this new technology and share all the pros, cons, and warnings you need to know before creating and using these art pieces. We will also learn how you can extract codes for inspiration from other artists' creations, discuss the cost and whether it makes sense, and also learn how you can get more advanced with prompts.

I hope you enjoy this video. Thank you so much for watching :)

► TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Speechless. AI is Unbelievable!
03:03 This Cannot Exist!
05:23 Disclaimer: I'll Come Clean
05:46 What Is It and How Does It Work?
07:09 How to Get Started
12:39 Price with Pros and Cons
14:39 Advanced Prompt Codes
17:17 Code List and Further Reading
17:59 How to Get Better Results & Copy Command
20:46 Use Your Own Images As Reference
21:47 BIG WARNING! DO NOT MISS THIS!
22:21 Will A.I. Take Over? Your Thoughts?

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► Correction: Yes, you can remove your creations. React to a generation with "❌" emoji on Discord to cancel or delete it at any time. It is also removed from the web gallery.

[advang]

Seeing how good this thing is, people will eventually starts to advertise their job as an artist with "100% human-made skill and not software/AI generated work"

[yingle]

For the first time in my life I've actually felt really disempowered by technology. My future career as an artist/illustrator is under threat... Now I know how truck drivers and checkout operators etc feel!

[lmao.]

i love how out of all the things people were afraid of AI taking over, art was rarely one of them. and now it's one of the first.

[snobol]

The thing is when i look at a piece of art my amusement isnt just about the looks of it its more about the thought process, creativity, vision and the perception of the artist thats what makes a piece of art to me

[Etrancical]

With the way AI learns and grows, this “experimental” feature is being used to teach the AI. It gives 4 options that people choose from, so when options don’t get built upon, it learns that it did something wrong and learns

[Rainybums]

I find this form of artificial intelligents is extremely helpful but at the same time terrifying for all those jobs that take creativity, think about it. If they explore deeper into this rabbit hole of data, jobs such as architecture and digital art will not be a thing. Its a serial topic and for me it can be a great conversation started!!

[ublue]

My fear is that we get oversaturated with really good art to a point where we cant appreciate beauty anymore.

[oneframe]

"Please don't steal it. I only recommend it for inspiration. Imagine how you would feel if somebody just simply copies your command and creates the exact same thing." The irony is killing me

[shenshaw]

I remember when we thought the few jobs AI wouldn't replace would be those in creative industries like art. Guess we were wrong.

[Ayerstairs]

I graduated from art school in 1981, long before Photoshop. I earned a living for many years doing illustrations with traditional media -- mostly airbrush. I transitioned to digital in 1995 and absolutely loved my first version of Photoshop. (3.0!) I added Cinema 4d to my toolbox in 1997, which greatly increased the control I had over my images. I'm still managing multiple deadlines at 70, loving working digitally, and have no plans on retiring.

As artist/illustrators, we have no choice but to embrace this amazing technology, add it to our toolbox, and find some way to bring our personal vision to it. If we don't -- those who do will "eat our lunch". I shudder to think of how my career would have gone if I had insisted on remaining an airbrush illustrator.

[TheChodex]

I always remember the scene from Will smith asking robot "Can you generate a beautiful painting" and robot replying "Can you?".
The fact that if somebody gave me random prompt and that I wouldn't even come close to painting something like this, is pretty insane to think about

[danielat]

Many still don't understand the reality of this problem, this will affect the behaviour of content creation and consumption all around the world. We won't seek knowledge behind each piece of work, this curiosity will eventually dissappear and we will become apathetic towards the things that lies right before our eyes.

[kats.]

As an artist, this is probably the most heartbreaking video I've seen in months.

[sangio_davese]

“If this is not crazy…I don’t know what is.” I feel wonderfully crazy just watching these generative AI examples and following along. Great mind blow!!

[Hoot]

Being on that Discord server is truly a surreal feeling.

Watching insane works of art (if you can call it that) being created by people literally every second, everything from a Cyberpunk version of Walter white to a photorealistic picture of a zombie Buzz Lightyear to pictures of Soviet space ships flying in Earth's orbit.

[novelafilmacademy]

The content here never fails to impress! The detailed breakdowns, clear comparisons, and exceptional sound design and storytelling are incredibly valuable. Big thanks for the insightful and well-crafted material!

[BlackIcexxi]

As an artist and a programmer, here is my large pile of thoughts about this:

I have mixed feelings about this as many of you also probably do. It will certainly disrupt the commercial art industry and my heart goes out to the freelancers that will be affected by this. Perhaps sites like Pinterest should also be considering how these algorithms can disrupt mood-boards etc.

But if you first use the tool, you will realize that many of the colors, textures and design elements that the algorithms add to your images are selected from the data it is trained on without much of your own intention or context. The algorithms by default start with literal random noise and builds the image from there. You can of course add your own images and refine the prompt details, making your results more and more specific to get to the final render you want. What do we call this process?

To get something decent from this, you still need intention, decent taste, a discerning eye, perhaps some comedic or poetic intuition as well when coming up with the prompts. (You will also find that as you add more and more details to your prompts, the results may start to break down. Maybe this is something that will improve over time, or maybe I myself am not skilled enough at prompt generation to avoid these pitfalls)

You create these images based on data made from the hard work of countless artists before. IP and legal stuff will certainly be an interesting question with these algorithms….

Would I say that images created by this tool were created by me? Not personally. I would say that I came up with the prompt idea, and guided the AI tool to arrive at a result that I wanted. It feels somewhat collaborative. It does certainly bother me when people take raw images from these tools and say “look what I made!”. The AI fills in too many design decisions for me to ever feel comfortable saying that I made those choices, unless I happened to make the prompt specific enough to do so. Some other artists have made those design choices already, and ideally these algorithms would give them some credit.

My point is, good design is purposeful and design decisions should be made with actual purpose/intention, contextualized by the needs of your project. Examples: this character needs five feathers on their wing because it is symbolic for something, or this new smartphone needs to be in this shape for this very specific usability reason, etc.

The random search of these algorithms may get lucky and arrive at an image that will exactly satisfy your needs, especially if your needs are not very specific. For an actual commercial project like a game, movie, product design etc., more often many of the images produced by this tool are not good enough for a final render.

This tool is good for brainstorming ideas, providing bottomless inspiration for design elements, and also can be a great source of material for digitally inclined creatives. I have seen artists generate several of these images and take elements from each, Photoshopping elements of them together into a purposeful and meaningful digital collage piece of sorts. 3D artists can use it to make textures for their games or renders. It significantly lowers the barrier to creation, and will no doubt disrupt the industry. I even have a friend who uses it in their DnD group to make backgrounds for their games.

The value of a digital image will be reassessed under these conditions; perhaps more emphasis will be placed on the poetry or ideas behind these synthetic images. Not to mention that these AI cannot create a physical painting. They cannot create a physical piece of pottery made by hand and burned in a kiln for three days of of the coast of some distant island in Japan. When a robot makes its own conscious decision to travel to some far off land to paint the sunset off the shore and comes back with masterpiece that embodies its own experience with love, nostalgia, and heartbreak, maybe that will be the day that artists of all mediums should be afraid. Until then, these algorithms are just tools

Perhaps there will also be value on art created without the use of AI, 100% human organic wholesale kind of thing. I would not be surprised if there was a backlash to using AI tools in some sectors, especially as we are saturated with more and more of these synthetic images. Maybe there will also be emphasis on the process people use to get their results, for example those painters that record videos of themselves painting are a work of art in and of themselves.

Further disruptive technologies powered by AI are certain to come; videos, music etc can also be generated by AI. But again, the algorithms still require a human to come up with the idea (driven by a creative impulse, design need, etc), refine the result through several iterations, doctor the results (perhaps some post processing, not to mention fixing the terrifying faces these early algorithms create). It is not replacing humans quite yet.

The real danger lies in how the commercial industry will use this stuff. We already live in a world where many “creative” decisions are made simply to get the most money, and not necessarily to create the most original or thought provoking pieces of work. I am worried that these algorithms will exacerbate problems we are seeing in an already stilted media industry, where pop culture already feels rehashed and derivative. It sounds incredibly boring to live in a world where synthetic images are created from datasets of rehashed synthetic images. But that is also why these algorithms cannot replace the human aspect.

These algorithms can recombine data in ways that can even be considered creative by some definitions, but they simply cannot incorporate new lived experience. The works made by them are by definition derivative. Additionally, the images you are allowed to create will be limited by the prompts you are allowed to use, dictated by the companies that own the tools. If you have used DALLE-2 or Midjourney, you will realize that they are both especially strict to prevent legal issues on their end. In that sense, when you are using these algorithms, your creativity is still pretty bounded.

Humans will by virtue of living will always have new data and experiences available to them, and that is where the freshest, rawest material comes from in my opinion. That “you couldn’t make this stuff up” moment when someone is telling a story.

Don’t stay inside looking at a screen all day, live life to the fullest (and perhaps I should take my own advice, ha). Go outside, fall in love with something or someone, then lose it all and do it again. Live your life, acquire new experiences, write about them, make creative projects that reflect what you have learned. Don’t compare yourself to other humans or AI algorithms. Authentic experiences are by definition irreplacable.

[manuelvv]

As many say, yes. The problem isn't the ai itself. Artists could also take benefit from this and actually create their own reference images, or incredibly speed up the brain storming process. The problem are those people who approach art and of course artists, as mere objects or something irrelevant.
If you deprive a person of creativity, the emotions of creating something, what makes him/her different from a machine at this point ?

[alekosimba]

It's crazy how many AI Image creation programms are there right now, and how many yet to come.
I'm not an artist and I deeply respect anyone who can draw something, either by hand or digitally.
I'm sure there's going to be some crazy hype for such artwork, but sooner or later hand drawn artworks will be even more unique for the human eye.
Don't lose hope artists! Peace and love and continue what you're doing