>Do you think Dall-E will replace artists, or just make an artist's job different?
If an ad agency or a magazine publisher can get a custom illustration that works for my purposes from Dall-E, then they ain't paying no artist. Not theoritical, many already do use those generated images.
That's not just "making the artist's job easier". It's taking jobs from artists (well, illustrators and graphic designers at least), especially in the cheaper end of the business (e.g. not Nike, but your local Pet Store chain, restaurant, or news outlet, sure).
People will tire of DALLE eventually. We are great pattern matches, and we'll start to see the patterns that don't measure up. Then it'll be all about the next AI engine, and it'll need its own corpus of work. Who's going to create it?
So yes, not OP, but I think artists will still have jobs, although less of them, and the job will be different.
There is no indication that we don’t have enough images already available and training time is the main bottleneck. Also openai clear showed that DALL-E could generate avacado chair even though there is nothing like that in the dataset.
There's still a matter of taste that Dall-E can't provide. It will only spit out what you tell it to, and if you lack good taste, then you'll still produce something inferior
If an ad agency or a magazine publisher can get a custom illustration that works for my purposes from Dall-E, then they ain't paying no artist. Not theoritical, many already do use those generated images.
That's not just "making the artist's job easier". It's taking jobs from artists (well, illustrators and graphic designers at least), especially in the cheaper end of the business (e.g. not Nike, but your local Pet Store chain, restaurant, or news outlet, sure).