Not the OP and I’m biased because I created an AI assistant for human-in-the-loop melody generation, but won’t non-pro art consumers be happy with more pretty images around them? The cost of the creation of art will go down, so this will allow indie game creators and others to focus on the story or other elements they’re good at and still create something appealing. For example, you will be able to recreate your dreams and show them to others. Or create a holodeck-style environment in VR or AR by describing it.
I was thinking more utilons/QALYs. The word “society” admittedly suggests something else, since empirically high-utility outcomes can appear asocial (e.g. staying home and reading a book).
Because of this, a lot more art will be produced, and I can’t wait to see it.
Since good drawings are now practically free, we will see them in places where we couldn’t before, like in fanfiction.
Stable Diffusion isn’t quite as good as a talented artist, but since we can request hundreds of variations and pick the best, the quality of art might increase.
Ambiguous or neutral:
It can produce realistic images and it is easier to use and more powerful than Photoshop, so we will see a lot of misinformation online. But once most people realize how easy it is to fabricate false photographs hopefully it will lead them to trust what they see online way less than they did before, and closer to the appropriate level.
Anyone will be able to make porn of anyone else. As long as people don’t do anything stupid after seeing the images, this seems inconsequential. As discussed on HN, it might cause people to stop worrying about others seeing them naked, even if the photos are real.
Anyway, both of these will cause a lot of drama, which I at least, perhaps selfishly, consider to be slightly positive.
Negative:
I expect a lot of people will lose their jobs. Most companies will prefer to reduce their costs and hire a few non-artists to make art rather than making more art.
New kinds of scams will become possible and some people will keep believing everything they see online.
Unlike DALL-E 2, anyone can access this, so it will be much more popular and will make many people realize how advanced current AI is and how consequential it will be, which will probably lead to more funding.
Tell me more why you think the impact on society will be positive.
I’d love it if either of you can define what “positive” even means in this context.
Not the OP and I’m biased because I created an AI assistant for human-in-the-loop melody generation, but won’t non-pro art consumers be happy with more pretty images around them? The cost of the creation of art will go down, so this will allow indie game creators and others to focus on the story or other elements they’re good at and still create something appealing. For example, you will be able to recreate your dreams and show them to others. Or create a holodeck-style environment in VR or AR by describing it.
I was thinking more utilons/QALYs. The word “society” admittedly suggests something else, since empirically high-utility outcomes can appear asocial (e.g. staying home and reading a book).
Positive:
People will pay way less for new pretty images than they did before.
Thanks to img2img people that couldn’t draw well before now finally can: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wvcyih/definitely_my_favourite_generation_so_far/
Because of this, a lot more art will be produced, and I can’t wait to see it.
Since good drawings are now practically free, we will see them in places where we couldn’t before, like in fanfiction.
Stable Diffusion isn’t quite as good as a talented artist, but since we can request hundreds of variations and pick the best, the quality of art might increase.
Ambiguous or neutral:
It can produce realistic images and it is easier to use and more powerful than Photoshop, so we will see a lot of misinformation online. But once most people realize how easy it is to fabricate false photographs hopefully it will lead them to trust what they see online way less than they did before, and closer to the appropriate level.
Anyone will be able to make porn of anyone else. As long as people don’t do anything stupid after seeing the images, this seems inconsequential. As discussed on HN, it might cause people to stop worrying about others seeing them naked, even if the photos are real.
Anyway, both of these will cause a lot of drama, which I at least, perhaps selfishly, consider to be slightly positive.
Negative:
I expect a lot of people will lose their jobs. Most companies will prefer to reduce their costs and hire a few non-artists to make art rather than making more art.
New kinds of scams will become possible and some people will keep believing everything they see online.
Unlike DALL-E 2, anyone can access this, so it will be much more popular and will make many people realize how advanced current AI is and how consequential it will be, which will probably lead to more funding.