The time has come for AI-generated art

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My son, a published author of two books and is finishing up on his third, uses Leonardo.ai to help with his illustrations.  He has often said, “It is a tool, not a takeover.”  He doesn’t put in a prompt and then take whatever it gives him. He’s told me that there have been times when he’s had to go through 12 – 15 iterations before he’s satisfied with what the AI gives him, and then he takes that final iteration, opens it in Blender or DAZ-3D and modifies it even more to get exactly what he wants.

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Congratulations to your son on three books, that’s awesome!

Book covers are a great example of how AI will enter commercial graphic design projects because so many independent authors make a composite of stock photos and rendered 3D elements, and although it’s primitive generative AI is already a better choice for providing the collage pieces. For example I’ve seen other authors express concern that the model might be uncomfortable being used on a romance book cover, or turned into a strange fantasy creature, so I think it’s an upgrade to generate characters that aren’t a real person’s likeness.

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The middle of the picture is not fine. The lighting and shadowing is a mess and the apple stem is off center too.

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There is one other ethical concern you did not mention: the amount of energy that AI art creation uses.

Query AI about a topic: energy use is negligible, almost not countable, a couple seconds of a standard processor’s time. One DALL·E image is closer to running an advanced GPU at full throttle for many seconds. Multiply this by ten million users a day, or fifty, each one happily creating a dozen images to chuckle at.

I think restraint should be taught alongside how to use with regard to Dall-e and other graphics AIs.

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“AI does not always render exactly what you ask for. Occasionally, the picture comes out wildly disrupted, so take a good look at it before using it.”

CURRENT AI has problems like this.  I am confident this will improve significantly over the next couple of years.

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I read a lot of SF books.  Now that Ai assisted drawing is so easy, I would like to see SF authors include drawings of the aliens and spaceships they are imagining in their stories.

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