When cameras weren’t invented, people would hire potrait artists to paint their photos, it was slow, expensive and tedious. Then the camera was invented, portraits could be taken within minutes instead of hours and mostly no skill was required. It was fast and cheap. But it had no soul, it wasn’t made by an artist but produced by a machine like an assembly line! Artists hated it because it was eating their jobs. They thought it would never catch up simply because the photos were colourless, low resolution and hard to read while their art was colourful, and it had an artistic aesthetic that the camera didn’t capture. But slowly, photos kept getting better and faster and easier, slowly even camera studios started losing their jobs. Almost nobody was hiring artists anymore, there were a select few who liked the art but most didn’t care! Cameramen flooded the market, everyone was competing on price, the artists were convinced that this is just an amuse bouche and the hype will die and people will realise that they bought shovels in a gold Rush and just like that, the entire industry of portraits was replaced by one single invention, Now that invention is something we use. Our phone! And that is my dilemma, are we hating AI simply because of what it is right now or the threats it pose? And even when we think AI bubble would burst, we have to stop and question! Would it? What if it ends up being a technology of daily use? Moreover, my most important question, how did the potrait artists handled this problem? When they knew, their loss is imminent, what did they do? submitted by /u/Crossroads071
Originally posted by u/Crossroads071 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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