[HN Gopher] Photos used to generate AI images for client so phot...
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       Photos used to generate AI images for client so photographer never
       shoots again
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-12-24 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | yummypaint wrote:
       | I wonder if these tools will ultimately force a better
       | appreciation for artistic intent. A Visual artist might
       | meticulously design the shape, color, positions, shadows, etc of
       | every object in a piece in order to achieve their goals and
       | direct the viewer's focus with surgical precision. It seems like
       | the amount of essential information encoded in such a work could
       | be much more than would be possible to compress into a text
       | prompt.
       | 
       | I think this will be the key differentiator between human
       | professionals and AI. AI will replace photos from people like me
       | who aren't photographers and just need a picture with a simple
       | description i.e. "thing A in front of thing B."
        
         | alar44 wrote:
         | I think it's highlighting that most people don't give a shit
         | about art. I'm not making a judgement, it's just how it is.
         | 
         | Art (I know this is a massively broad term) I think has
         | suffered from a lot of gate keeping due to having to practice
         | motor movements. But, we can all see. Take the motor stuff out
         | and anyone can become an artist.
         | 
         | Artists do not like this because now they aren't as special.
         | And if you know any artists, you know they love being special.
        
           | solardev wrote:
           | Yeah, I think art is really neat, but the art world is pretty
           | snobby and has a lot of old world... what's the opposite of
           | "charm"...? repulsion? to it.
           | 
           | I look forward to the day when humans in general stop
           | thinking of ourselves as something special and beyond. If AI
           | knocks us down a few notches and humbles us a bit, that seems
           | wonderful!
        
             | grugagag wrote:
             | This is a pretty dumb take, it's like saying programming is
             | easy, I can use chatgpt and bypass the whole computer
             | science gatekeeping crap.
             | 
             | In reality art is about process and spending time just like
             | software. Yes the art world is distorted/snobby and
             | gatekeepimg but in the same sense the software world is
             | like that too because of financial incentives. AI will
             | disrupt everything momentarily after which we will go back
             | and appreciate the craft behind various human endeavours
        
             | alar44 wrote:
             | I completely agree.
        
       | isaacfrond wrote:
       | The pictures are nice, but they do have a bit uncanny valey. The
       | model's skin seem to have some kind of sheen to it that sets them
       | apart from the background
        
       | 88stacks wrote:
       | I like that they are doing this as a manually process. We are
       | doing this for a bunch of customers now at https://88stacks.com
       | they train their own model for their own use cases through our
       | api.
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Was the airbrushed-in-thinnification of a thicker person
       | intentional? My impression has been that this has become
       | unfashionable since the 1990s (for professional photographers,
       | e.g. folks outside of FB and Instagram).
       | 
       | Personally, the fakeness of it turns me off. The pictured subject
       | doesn't exist in real life.
       | 
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