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AI-Imager Midjourney v5 Stuns With Photorealistic Images

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  I honestly am concerned about deepfakes. I think a lot more media will need to start using "chain of trust" technologies like SSL and certificate authorities that we use to secure financial information over the web - go ahead and argue that it's not perfect, but it has in practice allowed us to conduct trillions of dollars in online commerce every year with so far manageable levels of loss.

  Even so, still worried. When it comes down to it, how 'realistic' or well-produced something is weighs heavily in h

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    Be happy that for now, AI generative tools suck at video coherence.

    Be unhappy that lots of people (myself included) are working to change that situation.

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    The challenge is that doesn't work so well because most of the most important imagery would explicitly *not* be endorsed by the subject matter. So random citizen snaps a video of an important person knocking over someone in a wheelchair, and the best you can hope for is that you can prove that the random citizen vouches for the picture. It's not like the important person is going to sign it.

    Now you could have camera equipment sign the pictures to prove raw, but you can have an analog hole to start having

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      Have you ever been to reddit? How it works is somebody posts a picture with an inflammatory 1-sentence narrative, which may be real or fake. Then thousands of respondents take turns amplifying each others' response by phrasing it a little better, by explaining to everybody what the villain was thinking at the time (according to their own imagination), etc. etc. This goes on all day every day. Then maybe 500 posts down somebody points out the same picture has been posted 5 times in the last year always w

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  Easy there, geriatric doomsayer. For people who do graphic arts or art in general to make money, this will be a boon. Less time spent for more output. Learning to get the exact thing you're imaging from the AI output will be the new art class. That's not the end of the world, that's just the future.
  
  Also, nobody is forcing people to use this. If you do art, and you enjoy it, keep doing art. I do 3D art and I actually LOVE Midjourney because it's free concept art or inspiration for me to work from without

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    And in that future, your clients will still be willing to pay you the same rate for generative art that they are paying you now? I'm not so sure about that.

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    Will it? I've just tinkered with it a little bit, and my poor, design-challenged brain got somethings generated that are really snappy.

    The problem is, most design jobs don't need "great" - they need "good enough". And all that work just vanishes.

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    Well hopefully you're right and this phase is largely transitory. After all, the industrial revolution did enable the masses to join the artisan class. Though it was also a bit of a mess for workers rights, political corruption, and corporate monopolization. Sure sounds familiar...

    However, there are some major concerns I still have in the long-term. Namely the potential for "outsourcing" and the gradual brain-drain of the creative industry. I can't help but look at what happened to the manufacturing industr

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  we have been in that place forever. everything the media (any media) has been throwing at you during your half a century of life has been carefully calculated interest and bias, if not blunt propaganda.

  this ai revolution will only change how we go about it, these are new and different tools and will reshape the labor landscape and consumer habits, they will allow to expand the limits of art and media, they are already starting to produce hilarious upheaval in courts by ip trolls of every nature, but the per

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  Deepfakes scar me because they are getting they the point they could cause Disasters geopolitical situations recently a disturbing example of one circulated on twitter https://twitter.com/raphouseme... [twitter.com] of a deepfake of Biden giving a speech invoking the draft. or the well known Zelensky deepfake. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16... [cnn.com]

  How long do we have until deepfakes are so indistinguishable for reality that bad actors could use them to cause a global catastrophe?

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  Ted Kaczynski had the same thoughts, but in 1995.

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  Hit your 50s have you? I've got a couple of decades on you whippersnapper. (I suppose people from your generation would say 'grasshopper' rather than 'whippersnapper' or is Kung Fu with David Carradine too old for you?) I've been worrying about the future since the 1950s when we were learning about fallout shelters in grade school.

  First of all, nobody knows the future. We could be headed for the mother of all disasters, or we may learn how to deal with this stuff. Partly it's a matter of luck, and I th

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  Doomspeak. That is all I hear.
  But literally: "Now, anyone with access to software, can generate photographs of humans so convincing, they look real - even on second, third or fourth look." Good for this. Now everyone can be an artist. No longer is the art pool limited to just those with the time and money to become an "artist". Anybody can do it. Good. Awesome even, as now the choices we will have should explode. Where there were only one or two you might like there will now be thousands. This is Go