alt Hacker NewsOf course, now the question the boy in the article asked - "where does the Tiger come from?" - could be answered with "the prompt".
The arguments today are whether a prompt like "draw a Tiger" are the same somehow to someone using a pencil or digital stylus or whatever to draw a tiger.
"But I do know that there’s no program that will draw one from scratch, any size or pose or color or style, like I want it, without an artist at the helm. And there’s no magic answer for us artists except that we are each unique. We are the only variable"
Not anymore! Now the only variable (for good or bad) is the prompt? Just add "super photorealistic, no bad anatomy" I suppose :)
To be fair, his “like I want it” can be a serious qualification that AI doesn’t yet meet in general. It’s still today pretty hard to control image generation specifics, and even harder to control videos. The times I’ve tried, I found the process completely frustrating. AI generated pictures are the most amazing when you have very low expectations, but when you need super controlled edits, it’s really not yet very good at that. Researchers are working hard on trying to fix it, so AI will undoubtedly become better at drawing the tiger “like I want it”. At that point, if I have to exercise a lot of control and make a lot of edits, I am, to some degree, still the artist at the helm, right?