{"id":7837,"date":"2022-11-12T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/is-generative-ai-really-a-threat-to-creative-professionals\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T15:37:45","slug":"is-generative-ai-really-a-threat-to-creative-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/is-generative-ai-really-a-threat-to-creative-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Is generative AI really a threat to creative professionals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype<\/p>\n<p>When the concept artist and illustrator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rj-palmer.com\/\" title=\"\">RJ Palmer<\/a> first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of unease. The tool, released by the AI research company OpenAI, showed a marked improvement on 2021\u2019s Dall-E, and was quickly followed by rivals such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Type in any surreal prompt, from Kermit the frog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jake_farrington\/funniest-dalle-images-from-the-internet\" title=\"\">in the style of Edvard Munch<\/a>, to Gollum from <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> feasting on a slice of watermelon, and these tools will return a startlingly accurate depiction moments later.<\/p>\n<p>The internet revelled in the meme-making opportunities, with a Twitter account documenting \u201cweird Dall-E generations\u201d racking up more than a million followers. <em>Cosmopolitan<\/em> trumpeted the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/lifestyle\/a40314356\/dall-e-2-artificial-intelligence-cover\/\" title=\"\">first AI-generated magazine cover<\/a>, and technology investors fell over themselves to wave in the new era of \u201cgenerative AI\u201d. The image-generation capabilities have already spread to video, with the release of Google\u2019s Imagen Video and Meta\u2019s Make-A-Video.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/12\/when-ai-can-make-art-what-does-it-mean-for-creativity-dall-e-midjourney\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed7b8e4d2037b11ec2f50d6e8af4cc76091247fd\/0_196_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=79fa7a823428f8ee39b0a90d3f5679ae\" title=\"Is generative AI really a threat to creative professionals?\" \/>Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype<br \/>\nWhen the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of unease. The tool, released by the AI research company OpenAI, showed a marked improvement on 2021\u2019s Dall-E, and was quickly followed by rivals such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. Type in any surreal prompt, from Kermit the frog in the style of Edvard Munch, to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings feasting on a slice of watermelon, and these tools will return a startlingly accurate depiction moments later.<br \/>\nThe internet revelled in the meme-making opportunities, with a Twitter account documenting \u201cweird Dall-E generations\u201d racking up more than a million followers. Cosmopolitan trumpeted the world\u2019s first AI-generated magazine cover, and technology investors fell over themselves to wave in the new era of \u201cgenerative AI\u201d. The image-generation capabilities have already spread to video, with the release of Google\u2019s Imagen Video and Meta\u2019s Make-A-Video. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image-generators such as Dall-E 2 can produce pictures on any theme you wish for in seconds. Some creatives are alarmed but others are sceptical of the hype When the concept artist and illustrator RJ Palmer first witnessed the fine-tuned photorealism of compositions produced by the AI image generator Dall-E 2, his feeling was one of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/is-generative-ai-really-a-threat-to-creative-professionals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is generative AI really a threat to creative professionals?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}