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Designer Katsuya Terada Addresses AI During Live Drawing Session

Further, he clarified he doesn't believe that technology is inherently bad. “It's how people get to use it. For companies or people who choose to go the AI route to profit off it, there's a give and take.” Terada acknowledges that if the tool is free, the AI's data might not be free, as it might consume copyrighted material. “In those instances, there's a struggle to find the right balance.” Reiterating that the technology itself is not morally wrong, he encouraged the audience to consider it positively. “It really depends on who uses it and how they use it. That's my opinion.”

It's rather exciting! Often times it's just fun to see what the AI comes up with whether that has commercial value or not, especially in the realm of exploring concept art.
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Just wait until everyone has access to the technology for free, and everyone and their mother can generate new comics, film, novels, music, etc, within seconds and no effort.

No one is playing games with each other, they're playing their own generated games.

There is a case where AI is a problem for easily mimicking off of copyrighted works. But an equal argument can be made if for example, many artists themselves find inspiration and learn by imitating the work of other artists.

I think AI will be especially awesome if it can be used to do the in-between animation work once the animator has the key animation done. This would either make productions faster and/or reduce the animator's workload + costs.

It's rather exciting! Often times it's just fun to see what the AI comes up with whether that has commercial value or not, especially in the realm of exploring concept art.

Some may feel this threatens established jobs like in-between animation farms or concept artists, but I think that also helps level the playing field for a greater variety of smaller animation houses budding up and those same talented people now moving on to key roles and project leads with the AI doing the old grunt work. There will be a period of adjustment, but there is plenty of room for optimism!

Just wait until you go on a streaming service like Netflix, but unlike that where you have 1000 movies to pick from, you have infinite movies to pick from, and there's so many that it's become impossible to actually pick something because you have no idea how good or bad it is, no one does, because there's so much content and 99% of it is half-assed garbage and no one is watching the same thing anymore.

Oh and by the way, you're dirt poor. AI has taken over every job field. There's barely any work anymore, which used to sound like heaven, except now it's hell. You can't work even though you need to earn a living. But that's okay, right? You have all the free time in the world. To do nothing. You can't afford to do anything fun.

The way a human does that is completely different from how an AI does it. Humans can not completely replicate someone else's work, there will always be something new added and something lost, AI just Xeroxes that work wholesale with no creative thinking or smash it together with another piece of work.

In-betweening is how new animators hone their skills. Not only that but animators might want to have a specific way that the animation transitions from key drawing to key drawing, they might want to go off model to convey the illusion of movement better. All AI can do is create generic in-betweens that do the bare minimum, it doesn't know how the human eye will interoperate it during motion.

it's rather disingenuous to call concept art and in-betweening grunt work. you talk about it as if it is something people just have to put up with before they can finally get a worthwhile job in the industry. People spend their entire lives as concept artists because that's what they want to do, they are not going to like someone saying to them "Good news, you are no longer producing the concept art, the AI is. Now you can finally have that key role you never wanted".

However, once a large enough majority of people no longer have to work, capitalism will cease to function. Who will have the money to buy the products? Be it UBI or some other system that doesn't function based on capitalism, society as a whole will have no choice but to change, evolve, and adapt. Far from the apocalyptic hellscape you're envisioning, many see it as a step closer to a tangible utopia.

Ironically enough, this is precisely why many people are excited for AI. It's the big disruptor. It has the potential to really upset the status quo and reshape society. Currently, society is structured in such a way that any attempt to change things for the better will disadvantage people in the interim, making most resistant to the change, perpetuating the status quo.

However, once a large enough majority of people no longer have to work, capitalism will cease to function. Who will have the money to buy the products? Be it UBI or some other system that doesn't function based on capitalism, society as a whole will have no choice but to change, evolve, and adapt. Far from the apocalyptic hellscape you're envisioning, many see it as a step closer to a tangible utopia.

This is only going to reinforce capitalism and the status quo. Anything anti-creative and anti-worker is essential anti-human. Folks need to stop believing things they read on twitter.