You should give https://withpoly.com/ a try.
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You are right, but I canât help thinking that the future is dark. But Iâll keep going cause I like it and I guess weâll see.
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Your next artwork can be a render of a robot working on a scene about you working on a render of that robot 
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Well, then instead of training to be a 3D artist there may be more job options in the future if you study topics related to computer science, deep learning systems, neural networks for AI 
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I didnât know about that one, thanks looks great.
I expect blender plug-ins to appear soon that will leverage these techs to give us all more options.
Or an Ai that codes Blender plugs for you.
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Very interesting, itâs a precious time saver.
woow thatâs cool.
Okay I see, but with this kind of AI, you still have a lot of work to do by yourself so it seems more legit to me. It doesnât create a whole art work.
Thatâs actually a great idea 
you should really do that if you do art
Yes youâre right thatâs what I was thinking, but I would have a lot of knowledge to catch up since I did not study in that field at all
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Another thing to keep in mind is that the legal issues of using images generated with AI are still pretty foggy. So far, attempts to copyright works created purely with AI have failed to be legally recognized.
Social media has been calling the recent generators a source of âfree imagesâ but it isnât that simple. Itâs still legally unsettled, so companies cannot risk using assets that could put them in danger in the future.
And then thereâs the question of the countless artists who are being taken advantage of in the training of these machines. Personally, I think it should cost royalties to the original artists if you wish to use their art in the training, or even their name in the prompt. The government and the media donât see it this way----yet.
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Oh I did not know about the fact the legislation was not clear about that !
so true
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Yes!
If you can get away from approaching it with the thought of profit.
Perhaps learning it for therapy⌠or seeing your ideas come to life bit by bit, at first.
The profit can always be made later on, one way or the other.
I really donât believe that AI will be able to detail something that has never been created before. Look at all the AI output⌠when you look at it a bit closer, it is all approximation. That MindJourney canât even get a pair of eyes to look believable (at least the way I see it). For some reason I can tell instantly what was created using mindjourney⌠it always seems patched together, with no proper transition, and a lot of defocus around the edges. It feel like one of this stroke-simulation-photos, when you look closer.
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The fact that youâre asking yourself this question is, imho, a pointer to another question - why do you want to make art in the first place? Because all the people I know that create something, no matter what genre/field it is, including myself - canât live a life without it. Itâs not really something you can decide, itâs like an old friend that knocks at your door at 3 AM when youâve been neglecting him for too long.
If you want to create art to solely make money, Iâd maybe find something else - or if itâs just self-doubt, then keep doing what you want to do. AI may be able to copy and mix, but itâs lacking something substantial - the human experience. Or soul, if you want to call it that. My two cents, anyway. 
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Iâm gonna say, donât take my word for granted, because Iâm not at all an expert on the subject, and I donât want to come across that way. But my current understanding is that itâs going to be quite a mess in the next few years.
Itâs really slimy when you see how many of the âgoodâ artworks made with midjourney and such use the name of a concept artist on artstation and rip off their style.
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In the first place I make art to represent what I have in my mind and to illustrate my songs, then I want to share it to help and fulfil projects of other people and make a living of that.
I can affirm it is more self doubt.
As I said in a previous comment, I donât see myself doing something else than art in 10 years.
I was pointing the fact that it would be even harder to earn money from it since AI is growing but as you say, it doesnât have human soul. And as the other members said, the profit might or might not come, it is what it is and I have to understand that.
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AI doesnât take work away from you, it expands your opportunities to get it but with a âdifferentâ workflow intended for a âdifferentâ context. Trivial example: if an AI allows you to get 15 characters instead of 1 in the same time it would take you to produce the latter by hand, you will have 15 characters with which to create a complex scene. Obviously this scene will have an equal if not lower price than the single character you previously recreated by hand (but did you really create it entirelly by hand? There are now addons that create trees and human figures from scratch with 1-click buttons). And it should not be underestimated that many people who buy 3D models would already be able to produce them themselves, but due to lack of free time or laziness or timeline optimisation they are willing to pay for a ready-made model without giving any weight to the fact that 90 per cent of the product you show them in the shop window is due to an AI. And sometimes the âlazinessâ is so strong that people who could use an AI to get a character for âfreeâ still prefer to pay 30⏠to get 30 ready-made characters that only took you (the artist) 2 days to redefine their appearance. On the other hand, despite the fact that there are addons and applications that can recreate 1 complete human figure with 1-click at a cost of a few hundred euros, people still spend 35⏠(minimum) for a particular character because it still saves them even more time.
(Itâs a different story for automation in the manufacturing industry, itâs really a mess because it seems to be an industrial revolution that will create a negative balance on employment levels unlike previous industrial revolutions).
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I wanted to make a funny animation.
In a gallery full of on lookers, a man is in front of a computer telling it audibly what to paint. âa touch of burnt umber on the trunk and some panes grey in the cloudsâ he directs.
The crowed oooos and awwws his skill. haha
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Is there a hidden reason why we do not join and do not create something larger together?
I hope AI wonât be our next excuse not to socialize.
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I think the reason is not so hidden. It requires agreement and good organization. Not so common these days.
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This thread is pretty amazing; I am cheered by a lot of the contributions. People here are for the most part thoughtful rather than just reactionary, which is quite a feat. I feel lucky that Iâve found this community.
To find out whether you want to use AI in your art, youâd probably have to use it for a while, so you become educated about what it can do. Then you can make an informed decision.
My feelings are decidedly mixed â I like the new possibilities AI offers to many people, and maybe especially to somebody like me who has no traditional art training and couldnât draw concept art (yet) if my life depended on it, but I fear what it might do to artists (without whom we would be a much lesser species), and in a more general sense, to society as a whole. But this isnât exactly the first time in my life that Iâve encountered adversity, and Iâve learned that itâll hit me whether I rail against it or not, and things go vastly better for me if I maintain a positive attitude â not an ignorant âdonât worry be happyâ one where I deny the dangers, not a fake one where I just pretend to not appear weak, but one where I try to truly see the positives and embrace them. That distinction is enormously important.
And yeah, that requires work on oneself, especially since society isnât particularly supportive if one is the slightest bit weird. I mostly see life as a series of difficult learning experiences with which Iâll never ever be done. Itâs a good thing I enjoy learning.
If you put your mind to it, youâll grow beyond the inchoate fears.
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âIs it worth learning to draw and paint when we can just take a picture with a cameraâ?
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The artist was once proficient in painting, but now that he has outsourced that skill to the machine, his brain felt free to clean house and ensured that he will not know where to start if he once again picked up a brush.
This appears to be a real phenomenon by the way, because of technology you have people who can no longer do math without a calculator and can no longer drive from point A to point B without a GPS. This is on top of people who can no longer hold a vast storage of knowledge because they can just ask Google or Alexa for the answers they need.
The same might happen to artists now, there are already examples of AI generated sprites for game creation, so some may devolve from doing nice manual pixel art to making something they might have made as a child. It is the ultimate test of the old saying Use it or Lose it as far as the brain is concerned.
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Iâm just imagining Bob Ross:
"Weâll tell it to paint some mountains in the background (high quality, brushstroke, trending on artstation), and some happy little trees. Donât worry if you make a typo, itâs just one of those happy accidents. "
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