No Wonder Creative Types Are Worried: These 10 labor illustrations were created with AI
WARNING: AI may not be quite ready for primetime yet, but it soon will be.
Artificial Intelligence (aka ‘AI’) is capturing the attention (and fear) of many around the world.
No one really knows what AI means for humanity in the long run—from job security to how the world and economies will function—once AI matures and becomes fully functioning.
In Hollywood, for example,, unions representing writers (WGA) and actors (SAG-AFTRA) are currently on strike, in part, over the threat of AI on their jobs and the fear that they could be replaced by AI in the not-too-distant future.
Frankly, they should be afraid.
Although AI has been around for a while in more simple forms, Generative AI is fairly new and seems to be improving rapidly.
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) describes algorithms (such as ChatGPT) that can be used to create new content, including audio, code, images, text, simulations, and videos. — McKinsey.com
Although it may not be fully “ready for primetime” yet, it’s getting closer.
Earlier today, a friend posted some illustrations on Facebook and, upon inquiry, sent the link of the app he used to create them: Clipdrop.co/stable-doodle.
Our experiment: For $9 per month, or $40 per year, a subscriber can get up to 1500 AI-generated illustrations per day.
After subscribing, using specific prompts, we decided to see for ourselves how “good” AI is at creating illustrations using some of the current events in labor relations.
The prompts for these AI illustrations were: “UPS STRIKE, JOE BIDEN, TEAMSTERS”
PROMPT: “UNION STRIKE, CARS, UAW, AUTO WORKERS”
PROMPTS: “JOBS, REST IN PEACE, A.I.”
PROMPT: “UNION STRIKE, UNION, STRIKE”
PROMPT: “UNION STRIKE, UNION, STRIKE, STARBUCKS COFFEE”
While the above illustrations are examples of AI right now and there were numerous errors—for whatever reason, at times, the AI tool had problems spelling ‘Starbucks’ and ‘union,’ as well as ‘strike’—it is easy to see how quickly this tool could replace creative humans…not just writers or actors, but, in this case illustrators.
Stay tuned.