Despite all the ridicule in the posts above me, I think it is a cause for alarm for any artist in any field. Visuals, stories, music an more. AI can now generate all of the above forms of art, with some surprising successes. There are also horrible, nightmare inducing results as well, so at their current level of quality the majority of 3d artists are far from threatened by Dall-E and its competitors. But it might change in the future. Might.
I join you, but with less concerns.
AIs will only become a threat only for artists that rely only on stand alone creations. Yes, one day an AI will probably be able to do paintings like, hmm let's say
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. But it's only his paintings that the AI will be able to mimic, not his comics. Not because an AI will never be able to write a story, but it will always lack the constancy needed to illustrate it.
Generating an image isn't the same thing than generating a series of images that will depict a coherent action. To reach such level of constancy, the AI would have the not generate the scene, but to works like any 3D artists, even if the result is expected to looks like 2D drawings. It's only by relying on meshes elements that the AI would be able to have locations and characters that looks exactly the same in every single scenes of the story.
Of course, technically speaking, it's not impossible. But it mean that the AI will be coupled to a 3D rendering software that it will fully control. It's a lot of works, way more than just developing an AI or a 3D software (that are both already tons of works). And I guess (hope ?) that humans will awake and say "stop, before you continue, what's the interest exactly ?", before humanity reach this step.
Because, yes, what's the interest ? Actually AI generated images serve a purpose, they permit to develop AI themselves ; how far can an AI reproduce an unscripted procedure is important if we want autonomous AI. But that's all. We don't need more images, like we don't need more games (adults or not), music, books, movies, whatever arts-like creations.
And with AI expected to give us more free time (yeah, I live in a world where the future is an utopia), we will not lack of humans to create them ; and therefore don't need AI to replace them.
Having said that, nothing guarantees that the improvement in AI art's output will be linear, i.e. further improvement on the current quality of AI art might be exponentially difficult to pull off and the current quality threatens only stock image brokers.
It will surely not be linear. So far, in all History no technology (whatever how complex or simple it was) have ever had a linear evolution. There's no reason for AI to be different.
In fact, this is even more true when it's computer based technologies. They are caped by both the computing power and the algorithms. The technology advance step by step, each time someone have the right idea, the one that suddenly unlock a new possibilities. But there isn't tons of guys like that, and in between peoples just play around the last unlocked possibility.
