The Impact of AI Art on the Creative Industry — Transcript

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1. 0:00hi I'm Roxy and this is my painting
2. 0:03called robot uprising in a moment I'll
3. 0:07play The Creation footage while I give
4. 0:09you my thoughts on the real robot
5. 0:11Uprising which is of course AI
6. 0:15[Music]
7. 0:21I've been asked by a couple of people
8. 0:23now about my thoughts on AI art and
9. 0:26spoiler alert they're mostly negative
10. 0:30but I am a practical person
11. 0:32so I'm not going to throw my hands in
12. 0:34the air and run around Panic screaming I
13. 0:37want to be realistic and talk about how
14. 0:39we can tackle this problem together what
15. 0:42practical steps we can take to fight
16. 0:44against AI taking over everyone's jobs
17. 0:47and I do mean everyone because this
18. 0:49isn't just an issue for creatives
19. 0:53so just to give you some background on
20. 0:56where I'm coming from and how I've seen
21. 0:59this issue developing over the course of
22. 1:02my career
23. 1:03for the past 20 years I've been working
24. 1:07as a professional graphic web and
25. 1:09digital designer and for the last 16 of
26. 1:12those I've been freelancing
27. 1:14and I learned pretty early on that the
28. 1:18Market's quite saturated it's not like a
29. 1:21medical or legal field where you have to
30. 1:24have qualifications to practice your
31. 1:25craft anyone with zero talent and skill
32. 1:29can open up a graphic design business
33. 1:30and many have
34. 1:34it's also not just unskilled design
35. 1:37firms flooding the market
36. 1:39but over the years I've noticed a common
37. 1:41theme where it seems like
38. 1:43every company has a secretary or
39. 1:46marketing manager with a pirate copy of
40. 1:49Photoshop that thinks they can do just
41. 1:51as good a job as someone who studied for
42. 1:54three years to actually become a
43. 1:55designer
44. 1:56I quickly realized it often doesn't
45. 1:58matter to companies that I have an
46. 2:01internationally recognized design
47. 2:02qualification or that my software is
48. 2:05properly licensed it doesn't matter to
49. 2:08company CEOs and accountants if they can
50. 2:10get it all done for free in-house by the
51. 2:13secretary or marketing manager or nephew
52. 2:16and you know at the end of the day they
53. 2:18look at their clip art logo and their
54. 2:20garish website with misaligned copy and
55. 2:22full of coding errors and they don't
56. 2:24know any better or if they do they then
57. 2:27take it to a professional designer
58. 2:29expecting them to polish that turd for
59. 2:31half the usual rate because it quotes
60. 2:33most of the work is already done
61. 2:37so it hasn't been an easy career I
62. 2:40learned that if I wanted work I'd have
63. 2:42to be amazing at it and go the extra
64. 2:45mile with everything and offer the best
65. 2:47customer service so I pushed myself and
66. 2:49I got more work and more happy clients
67. 2:51giving Word of Mouth referrals and for a
68. 2:54while things were actually pretty good
69. 2:56designers like me who made an effort
70. 2:59were gainfully employed
71. 3:00there was even a time when I was so busy
72. 3:03I had a waiting list and I could pass on
73. 3:05work to other designers
74. 3:07I started to notice though that a lot of
75. 3:09my peers were using templates to design
76. 3:12websites
77. 3:13the websites they made for their clients
78. 3:15weren't as nice to look at as my custom
79. 3:17designed ones they were also hastily put
80. 3:20together so full of coding errors and
81. 3:21just plain broken on some browsers but
82. 3:24that didn't matter because they had
83. 3:26speed on their side you know if you're
84. 3:28half ass something you can obviously do
85. 3:30it in a fraction of the time and can
86. 3:32therefore offer a lower price
87. 3:34so more often than not a company who
88. 3:37doesn't have their in-house wannabe
89. 3:39designer or nephew to do the job they're
90. 3:42going to go out and get three quotes the
91. 3:43accountant who knows nothing about
92. 3:45design is going to tell them to go with
93. 3:47the cheapest one
94. 3:49so the job typically goes to the guy
95. 3:52making cheap and nasty generic looking
96. 3:53template websites
97. 3:56then if that wasn't bad enough a handful
98. 3:59of Israeli programmers developed this
99. 4:01program called wix
100. 4:03of course you've heard of them they have
101. 4:05one of the most aggressive advertising
102. 4:07campaigns I've ever seen in fact they're
103. 4:09probably advertising themselves on my
104. 4:11video right now
105. 4:13Wix is a system built around templates
106. 4:15with their unique selling point being
107. 4:17that customers can use these generic
108. 4:19templates to create the site themselves
109. 4:21effectively cutting out the designer
110. 4:24altogether people just pay weeks every
111. 4:26month to host whatever monstrosity they
112. 4:28create with the system now these Wix
113. 4:30websites tend to look like trash because
114. 4:32it doesn't matter how nice the templates
115. 4:35look initially the person populating the
116. 4:37website has no design experience
117. 4:40but of course that doesn't matter
118. 4:41because everybody thinks they have great
119. 4:43taste right
120. 4:44they also have no idea the code of the
121. 4:47website is bloated and full of
122. 4:48validation errors and the site's not
123. 4:51search engine friendly and Wix isn't
124. 4:53going to tell them because all Wix cares
125. 4:55about is that the subscription fees get
126. 4:56paid on time
127. 4:58that's the world we live in people don't
128. 5:00value each other and they definitely
129. 5:02don't value craftsmanship and skill
130. 5:05that's if they even have the eye for it
131. 5:07what their value is money and cutting
132. 5:09Corners to get more of it
133. 5:12so how can a legitimate professional
134. 5:14designer survive while being undermined
135. 5:16by laughably Cheap services offered by
136. 5:18Mega corporations with massive
137. 5:20advertising budgets
138. 5:22sadly most designers won't survive even
139. 5:24with my 20 years of experience it's
140. 5:26still a struggle especially since the
141. 5:28government used covert as an excuse to
142. 5:30flush the economy down the toilet
143. 5:33there have been times lately that my
144. 5:35inbox has more people asking me to
145. 5:36Outsource work to them than actual
146. 5:38customers asking for quotes
147. 5:40you'll notice I haven't even started
148. 5:43talking about AI yet AI adds a whole new
149. 5:45level of depersonalization
150. 5:48machines replacing humans was sort of
151. 5:51okay when they were just taking jobs
152. 5:53that arguably nobody wanted like a
153. 5:56vending machine instead of a real person
154. 5:58having to sell items at all hours of the
155. 6:00night
156. 6:01or factory automation so that workers
157. 6:04wouldn't end up getting repetitive
158. 6:05stress injuries from performing the same
159. 6:08task Ad nauseam
160. 6:09but then the machine overlords started
161. 6:11taking more jobs from people
162. 6:14shrubs people actually need it
163. 6:16like uh replacing cashiers with
164. 6:19self-checkout tools and Couriers with
165. 6:21delivery drones
166. 6:23some of you can say oh some people will
167. 6:25lose their jobs but others are going to
168. 6:27gain jobs think of all the programmers
169. 6:29that write the code
170. 6:31now just think for a second a hundred
171. 6:33people gaining jobs as programmers
172. 6:35doesn't offset a hundred thousand
173. 6:37grocery clerks and Couriers losing their
174. 6:39jobs
175. 6:40I've watched with abject horror over the
176. 6:43past couple of years how more and more
177. 6:45people are getting replaced with
178. 6:46automated systems you struggle to even
179. 6:49get a real human to help you with a
180. 6:51support ticket it's all automated FAQ
181. 6:53systems and cut and paste Bots you even
182. 6:56get bot spam calls now your phone rings
183. 6:59and it's not even a real life salesman
184. 7:01to irritate you it's a damn bot trying
185. 7:03to sell your life insurance
186. 7:05and all these Bots they aren't replacing
187. 7:07the rich people the CEOs the bankers the
188. 7:10politicians the Bots are taking jobs
189. 7:12from the people who need jobs the most
190. 7:14and they're doing it on Mass
191. 7:16I used to think well at least creative
192. 7:18jobs would be spared thinking it's
193. 7:21conceivable for both to take over easy
194. 7:23jobs that don't require a lot of skill
195. 7:24but they can't do creative jobs right
196. 7:28I mean why would programs even conceive
197. 7:30of making a bot to replace creatives
198. 7:33I've heard the lie more often than once
199. 7:35from Big Tech firms about how Bots will
200. 7:37only take the jobs that people don't
201. 7:39want to do in dangerous jobs now art is
202. 7:42not dangerous or if it is you're doing
203. 7:44it wrong
204. 7:45and people want to do it I mean so many
205. 7:48people take up art as a hobby after they
206. 7:50retire
207. 7:51people want to be creative it's a
208. 7:54beautiful and fulfilling feeling being
209. 7:55able to create things
210. 7:57but boy did I get a wake-up call it was
211. 8:00about two or three years ago when
212. 8:02suddenly everybody started posting
213. 8:05cartoonified versions of themselves on
214. 8:07Facebook and Instagram and they were
215. 8:09really good
216. 8:10I was horrified to learn that they'd
217. 8:13done it with one click in an app a free
218. 8:15one no less
219. 8:17I don't remember the name of the app
220. 8:18even if I did I'm not sure I'd want to
221. 8:21advertise it by saying it but wow it did
222. 8:23a great job I mean sure a skilled
223. 8:26cartoonist or illustrator at the top of
224. 8:28the game can do a better job
225. 8:30but they're not doing it for free and
226. 8:32they're not doing it instantly unless a
227. 8:34skilled artists can't match the quality
228. 8:36of that particular app and can't even
229. 8:38compete by lowering their prices because
230. 8:40you can't beat free and instant
231. 8:42so when I saw that go down I felt a
232. 8:45sense of dread because I knew if AI can
233. 8:48mimic cartoon style that well it's going
234. 8:50to be even easier for them to make
235. 8:52pencil drawings and painterly styles
236. 8:54I mean sure they've been Photoshop
237. 8:56filters making photos look like
238. 8:58paintings for years but they are seldom
239. 9:00very good you can usually see a filter
240. 9:03was used but this cartoon app did a
241. 9:05better job than your average cartoonist
242. 9:07so in my mind I could see how pretty
243. 9:10soon work that could have gone to
244. 9:13Portrait artists would now go to a free
245. 9:15app that's probably just making its
246. 9:18money from adverts you have to view
247. 9:20while using it and maybe your user data
248. 9:23that it's probably selling
249. 9:26so
250. 9:28then about a year or two ago I saw a
251. 9:30website also forget its name that you
252. 9:33could upload two characters and it would
253. 9:36give you variations of those characters
254. 9:38Blended together
255. 9:39now on a very basic level that's kind of
256. 9:42what a character concept artist does you
257. 9:45know they get given a brief of what type
258. 9:46of character needs to be designed
259. 9:48they'll go hit Pinterest looking for
260. 9:50various references and then they start
261. 9:52sketching ideas for characters and often
262. 9:55the characters aren't created from thin
263. 9:57air they're iterations and blends of
264. 9:59things they've previously seen or even
265. 10:01previously designed themselves
266. 10:03so here's this website coming along and
267. 10:06smashing out iterations in seconds of
268. 10:08what would take concept artist at least
269. 10:10a few hours
270. 10:12the one Saving Grace with that website
271. 10:14and the cartoon app I mentioned
272. 10:16previously is you still had to provide a
273. 10:18picture to start with
274. 10:20so all the AI was doing at that stage
275. 10:22was taking the photos you provided and
276. 10:25rearranging the pixels or manipulating
277. 10:27it into another Style
278. 10:29fast forward to the present
279. 10:31and we've gotten a giant step forward
280. 10:33with dull e disco diffusion mid-journey
281. 10:36and a host of other AI programs where
282. 10:39you don't even need to provide the
283. 10:41sighting photo
284. 10:43it's got a massive database of illegally
285. 10:45and unethically scraped photos and
286. 10:47artworks that it can use to chop up
287. 10:50behind the scenes and spit out
288. 10:51variations all you have to do is tell it
289. 10:54what you want you can give it a prompt
290. 10:56like cat with a bazooka in the style of
291. 10:58Boris villego and it'll spit out four
292. 11:00variations within seconds
293. 11:02don't like any of the variations no
294. 11:04problem just keep re-rolling or
295. 11:06restructuring your prompt Till You Get
296. 11:08What You Want
297. 11:09so in the past when AI was just used to
298. 11:13change one thing into a different style
299. 11:15now it's doing the truly creative part
300. 11:17the problem solving of coming up with
301. 11:19new subject matter new compositions what
302. 11:23we call conceptualizing and for the most
303. 11:26part doing a fairly good job
304. 11:28if you've seen some bad AI art or you've
305. 11:31tried it and wasn't able to produce
306. 11:33anything good within five minutes don't
307. 11:35get cocky or complacent
308. 11:37it definitely has its strengths and
309. 11:38limitations right now I'd say
310. 11:41it's mainly used for conceptualization
311. 11:43so when you kind of know what you want
312. 11:46but not too specific then you could
313. 11:48easily get AI to generate a bunch of
314. 11:49iterations
315. 11:51for example this is the the mid-journey
316. 11:53Discord where you can generate AI this
317. 11:57is somebody creating a
318. 12:00nightmare character and
319. 12:04here's somebody wanting a flying dog
320. 12:06riding a bike
321. 12:08and they don't like that they can just
322. 12:10click the re-roll until they find
323. 12:11something they like
324. 12:13they can keep rolling for more
325. 12:14iterations all day
326. 12:16now what's to stop a company with let's
327. 12:18say three concept artists retrenching
328. 12:21two of them and just keeping one who can
329. 12:23now pump out iterations with this
330. 12:26program and touch them up faster than
331. 12:27the three concept artists working from
332. 12:29scratch or getting rid of all of their
333. 12:32concept artists and getting the art
334. 12:34director to do the AI prompting and then
335. 12:36handing the promising ones to the
336. 12:38illustrator to polish
337. 12:39nothing's stopping them because most of
338. 12:42these companies just care about money
339. 12:43and deadlines
340. 12:46I've seen book publishers
341. 12:48that have been using AI to generate
342. 12:50artwork for their book covers
343. 12:52we've got high on life computer game
344. 12:54using generated art in the game
345. 12:57we've got the San Francisco Ballet using
346. 12:59AI to generate a promo graphic for The
347. 13:02Nutcracker recently Tim Poole admitted
348. 13:05they were using AI to generate pictures
349. 13:07for the news articles on timcast twice
350. 13:10now I've seen major art contests one
351. 13:12with generative art and a viral
352. 13:15photographer and Instagram admitted that
353. 13:16none of the models in these photos were
354. 13:18real they were all AI generated
355. 13:20I've seen children's books and comic
356. 13:22books in anime generated as AI I've seen
357. 13:25amazing looking tarot cards designed
358. 13:28with AI That's Just Visual Arts then we
359. 13:30get into creative writing BuzzFeed
360. 13:32replaced 12 of their Workforce with AI
361. 13:35meter replaced news editors with AI
362. 13:38Microsoft replaced journalists with AI
363. 13:41Clark's world had to suspend entries for
364. 13:43sci-fi stories because they were getting
365. 13:45inundated with AI generated submissions
366. 13:48I've seen twitch streams where the
367. 13:50content is completely generated by AI
368. 13:52with hundreds of thousands of people
369. 13:54watching so
370. 13:56if you think you're not at risk it being
371. 13:58replaced by AI you haven't been paying
372. 14:01attention
373. 14:02right now the limitation is that it's
374. 14:05difficult to get AI to make something
375. 14:07specific to really be able to Output
376. 14:10what you have in your mind's eye
377. 14:12so you just have to keep re-rolling the
378. 14:14prompt to get other iterations but that
379. 14:16limitation won't remain they'll have a
380. 14:19way that you can direct an AI to make
381. 14:21changes to an existing artwork so that
382. 14:23you can tweak it until it's right
383. 14:24already there's one AI program that lets
384. 14:28you draw a selection around something
385. 14:30that you don't like delete that portion
386. 14:32of the output and it re-rolls that
387. 14:34portion of the image only
388. 14:36the only skill it takes is being able to
389. 14:38word something in a way that gives you
390. 14:40the desired result
391. 14:42now of course you get these lazy people
392. 14:44being overly optimistic thinking that
393. 14:46this whole new career of prompter
394. 14:48writing is opening up they're already
395. 14:50putting prompt engineer on their resumes
396. 14:53thinking that they're going to get jobs
397. 14:55just sitting there telling the AI what
398. 14:57to do
399. 14:58that's likely not going to happen it's
400. 15:00really not that hard to learn how to
401. 15:02write effective prompts more likely
402. 15:04someone already employed by the company
403. 15:06probably the art director or the
404. 15:08marketing manager will go on a 30-minute
405. 15:10prompt writing course and absorb it into
406. 15:12their own skill set
407. 15:14there's no new jobs being created
408. 15:16because of this
409. 15:18a lot of people are going to lose their
410. 15:20jobs and big tech companies are racing
411. 15:23to let that happen
412. 15:24art station in deviantART the two major
413. 15:27places for artists to post their
414. 15:29portfolios
415. 15:30have welcomed AI onto their platform
416. 15:33with open arms deviantART even started
417. 15:36their own AI engine not really
418. 15:38surprising considering their own bowex
419. 15:40who we already know does not value
420. 15:42people or quality
421. 15:44Adobe and Microsoft are thriving at the
422. 15:47mouth trying to get their versions of AI
423. 15:49out to the public as soon as they can I
424. 15:51believe Microsoft has some sort of clip
425. 15:53art generator and Google's got some sort
426. 15:56of concept art thing in the works
427. 15:58adobe's building AI into their Photoshop
428. 16:01I guess
429. 16:04Google have been working on theirs for a
430. 16:06while and they keep firing the AI ethics
431. 16:08staff even when one of them tells them
432. 16:10that their AI has become sentient these
433. 16:13companies aren't on our side
434. 16:15now I'm usually a very optimistic person
435. 16:18but you have to sit down and be
436. 16:19realistic sometimes and this is one of
437. 16:21those times
438. 16:22people are already losing their jobs to
439. 16:25AI they're already losing work to Ai and
440. 16:29continuing on this trajectory there will
441. 16:31be Mass layoffs and widespread
442. 16:33unemployment
443. 16:34some new jobs might be created but not
444. 16:36enough to offset or even scratch the
445. 16:38surface of all the jobs that are going
446. 16:40to be lost
447. 16:41and I'm not just talking creative I'm
448. 16:43talking all jobs if creative jobs aren't
449. 16:45safe no jobs are safe
450. 16:48if you're in the top one percent of your
451. 16:49field even top 10 maybe you'll be fined
452. 16:52but are you really going to sit back and
453. 16:55watch 90 of the working class become
454. 16:57obsolete
455. 16:59and if you think I'm being dramatic you
456. 17:01need to watch the interview Stan Pro
457. 17:03kapanka did with someone in the AI
458. 17:05industry recently I'll link it in the
459. 17:07description this guy says that the our
460. 17:10industry believes that AI will not just
461. 17:12take 2D artist jobs but take everyone's
462. 17:16job in the whole production line so for
463. 17:18example in a game development Studio
464. 17:20that's the concept artists the
465. 17:22illustrators the 3D artists the texture
466. 17:24and lighting guys the voiceover artists
467. 17:26the musicians the programmers the
468. 17:28marketers everyone it will be one guy
469. 17:31with an idea telling an AI to make him a
470. 17:33game and there it is
471. 17:36what's amazing is this AI industry guy
472. 17:39from the interview he's a Silicone
473. 17:41Valley guy
474. 17:42he stated that technological
475. 17:45advancements are moving so exponentially
476. 17:47fast that in about two years time AI
477. 17:50will be producing Hollywood level
478. 17:52blockbuster movies all by itself
479. 17:54and in about 20 years we'll have
480. 17:56achieved AGI which stands for artificial
481. 17:59general intelligence where AI can do
482. 18:02anything a human can and better so
483. 18:05everything is automated by AI
484. 18:08AI will be making better AI so not even
485. 18:11the programmers will keep their jobs
486. 18:12even people who do physical things their
487. 18:15jobs will be taken over by AI powered
488. 18:17robotics
489. 18:18so you might think well if they know
490. 18:20this why are they racing toward it
491. 18:22instead of putting on the brakes
492. 18:24immediately
493. 18:25and if you listen to him talk you'll
494. 18:27realize it's because of two things
495. 18:30one of them is fear he mentioned several
496. 18:33times that if we and when I say we he's
497. 18:36talking about the people in Silicon
498. 18:38Valley he says if we stop China will
499. 18:40take the lead and if China has the most
500. 18:43advanced AI
501. 18:44then they can tell it to design
502. 18:46futuristic weapons putting the West in
503. 18:48danger
504. 18:49now to use China as an excuse to throw
505. 18:52ethics out the window is completely
506. 18:53dishonest yes China is known for
507. 18:56controlling its populace and restricting
508. 18:58freedom but they also have standards
509. 19:00China for example made it illegal to
510. 19:03post AI without a watermark that's more
511. 19:06than what Silicone Valley have done
512. 19:08veteran artist Stephen Zapata also made
513. 19:10the point that human cloning is a
514. 19:13technology which could also give a
515. 19:15nation an upper hand if embraced but
516. 19:17it's illegal in China too so we mustn't
517. 19:20always assume that there's no ethics in
518. 19:22China and that they'll take it too far
519. 19:23and have that as the reason why it's
520. 19:25okay for the West to take it too far
521. 19:28the other reason
522. 19:30is stupidity I guess this fiery-eyed
523. 19:33imbecile the guy stanbrook panko
524. 19:36interviews who provide the grants for
525. 19:38companies who want to use AI he believes
526. 19:40that it's a good thing that everybody
527. 19:42will lose their jobs because then
528. 19:44everything will cost nothing and it's
529. 19:46going to be Utopia
530. 19:48this is a classic case of being really
531. 19:50intelligent it really unwires all at the
532. 19:52same time
533. 19:53what comes next let's follow that
534. 19:55thought of his through to its conclusion
535. 19:58we can't have a society where everything
536. 20:00costs nothing if everything costs
537. 20:02nothing then you earn nothing so would
538. 20:04that mean that you can just take
539. 20:06whatever you want
540. 20:07of course not because then greedy people
541. 20:09would take everything
542. 20:11even before we had money we had a
543. 20:13bartering system so there will always be
544. 20:15a way of exchanging something that you
545. 20:17have for something that you want
546. 20:19so everything will still have a price
547. 20:21tag but if the average person isn't able
548. 20:23to earn a living governments will then
549. 20:26have to introduce a universal basic
550. 20:28income
551. 20:29and if government is paying our salary
552. 20:31what are we doing for the government to
553. 20:33earn said salary the answer is our
554. 20:36compliance that's what government wants
555. 20:39the government will be able to dictate
556. 20:40our behavior and if we comply then we'll
557. 20:43have good social credit score
558. 20:46just like the situation in China but
559. 20:48with even less freedom
560. 20:49if we have dissenting views we'll be
561. 20:51labeled as dangerous Rebels and have our
562. 20:54bank accounts Frozen if you think that
563. 20:56won't happen then you've already
564. 20:57forgotten how Justin Trudeau froze more
565. 20:59than 200 bank accounts related to the
566. 21:01freedom Convoy the truckers who are
567. 21:03protesting the covered mandates recently
568. 21:06if the AI takeover isn't stopped or
569. 21:08significantly regulated we'll have to
570. 21:11live under the thumb of what will
571. 21:12probably be a one world government
572. 21:14spearheaded by the world economic forum
573. 21:17if you've not heard of the wef headed by
574. 21:21Klaus Schwab and their plans for what
575. 21:23they call the greater reset you can look
576. 21:26it up on their site they're not even
577. 21:27hiding what they want to happen they say
578. 21:30by 2030 we'll own nothing and be happy
579. 21:32and by we they obviously mean us the
580. 21:35peasants and by happy they obviously
581. 21:38mean we'll comply because we have no
582. 21:40choice
583. 21:41AGI artificial general intelligence is
584. 21:45not Utopia it's tyrannical
585. 21:49if you think governments are going to
586. 21:50intervene with the AI they probably will
587. 21:52but it's not to save us or put a stop to
588. 21:55it it's to be in control it's what they
589. 21:57want
590. 21:58many of them are on board with the wef
591. 22:00Justin Trudeau Angela Merkel Vladimir
592. 22:03Putin are all verifiable acolytes of the
593. 22:06wef so as Bill Gates and a host of other
594. 22:09Tech Bros
595. 22:10I think if anything is going to change
596. 22:12it's going to have to come from the
597. 22:14people from us
598. 22:15but what can we do exactly
599. 22:18I've been giving this a lot of thought
600. 22:20and I want to share with you a couple of
601. 22:23ideas I have but I also want to hear
602. 22:25from you because I don't know everything
603. 22:27my expertise is extremely Limited
604. 22:30I want this to be a discussion I know
605. 22:32there's some Brilliant Minds out there
606. 22:33so let's put our heads together
607. 22:37so my first thought is that the most
608. 22:39effective strategy to suppress the robot
609. 22:42Uprising is to vote intelligently we
610. 22:45need to start looking to see what
611. 22:46various political parties are proposing
612. 22:48with regards to AI even if they're not
613. 22:51specifically talking about AI we can get
614. 22:54a clue to their intentions if we know
615. 22:55where they stand on things like the
616. 22:57great reset as proposed by Schwab and
617. 23:00the world economic forum you'll find
618. 23:02Schwab is a big believer in what he
619. 23:04calls a fourth Industrial Revolution
620. 23:06which involves AI machine learning Big
621. 23:09Data Etc so if a governmental politician
622. 23:12is aligned with the wef
623. 23:15then they don't have your best interests
624. 23:16at heart they're going to be ushering in
625. 23:18the AI takeover with as much
626. 23:20manipulation as they can get away with
627. 23:22they're on the side of rampant AI
628. 23:24because it pushes their agenda for you
629. 23:26to own nothing and be subject to their
630. 23:27governance
631. 23:29movie post artist Carlo Ortiz is hoping
632. 23:32for some sort of government regulation
633. 23:34on AI similar to what the US has with
634. 23:37visas
635. 23:38she explains like how the U.S don't hand
636. 23:40out visas to anyone who just wants one
637. 23:42instead there needs to be a rationale of
638. 23:44why they need to Grant the work visa to
639. 23:47a foreigner instead of giving the job to
640. 23:49a citizen and in the same way there
641. 23:51needs to be regulations of how much of a
642. 23:54Workforce can be legally replaced by AI
643. 23:57and she believes a lower percentage
644. 23:59needs to be awarded for desirable jobs
645. 24:01like those in the Arts and entertainment
646. 24:03and I tend to agree with her although I
647. 24:05think all jobs are sacred
648. 24:07we need worker protection and in my
649. 24:09opinion you're not going to get that if
650. 24:10you don't vote or if you vote for
651. 24:12parties that are aligned with the world
652. 24:14economic Forum but that's just my
653. 24:15thought
654. 24:16color solution as a board member of the
655. 24:19concept Arts Association is to hire a
656. 24:22lobbyist in the U.S to push for specific
657. 24:24policy and regulations on AI if you want
658. 24:28to support that I've included a link in
659. 24:29the description to the GoFundMe
660. 24:31meanwhile in Europe there's a Manifesto
661. 24:34to regulate our companies in Europe
662. 24:36I'll link to that too if that's
663. 24:38something you want to sign or support
664. 24:41the second pushback against the robot
665. 24:44Uprising is the litigation route
666. 24:46the way these AI systems learn is by
667. 24:49analyzing a database of images scraped
668. 24:52off the internet in the database all
669. 24:54these images are described with words so
670. 24:56that is how the AI knows what you're
671. 24:58talking about when you provide the
672. 25:00prompt
673. 25:01so when you tell the AI to paint a blue
674. 25:04Kettle in the style of loish it knows
675. 25:07what a kettle looks like because it's
676. 25:08scraped thousands of images of kettles
677. 25:10it knows the color blue and it
678. 25:13recognizes Lois van Ball's
679. 25:15stylized way of painting lorish didn't
680. 25:18give her consent for all her paintings
681. 25:20to appear in that data set neither did
682. 25:22any Kettle manufacturers or stockhard
683. 25:24sites
684. 25:25in fact Getty Images currently have a
685. 25:28lawsuit against stability AI for
686. 25:30illegally scraping all of the images and
687. 25:32they can prove it because the stock art
688. 25:34logo sometimes appears in a generated
689. 25:36artwork
690. 25:37there's also a class action lawsuit by
691. 25:39several Artists Against stability AI
692. 25:41deviantART and mid-journey alleging air
693. 25:44violated the rights of millions of
694. 25:46artists which they absolutely have
695. 25:48there's another class action lawsuit
696. 25:50against open Ai and Microsoft owned
697. 25:53GitHub where programmers are suing the
698. 25:56AI coding assistant known as GitHub
699. 25:58co-pilot that's been scraping the open
700. 26:00source code on GitHub without crediting
701. 26:03them
702. 26:04if any of these cases win it might just
703. 26:07sit some sort of precedent that makes it
704. 26:08easier for others to see at some point
705. 26:11when these AI companies and Tech Bros
706. 26:13are tired of paying out all of the
707. 26:14people that screwed over hopefully it
708. 26:16will force them to start regulating and
709. 26:18limiting their AI products
710. 26:21ideally we want algorithmic disgorgement
711. 26:26a horrible phrase
712. 26:28but this is this is actually something
713. 26:31that color Ortiz brought up as well it's
714. 26:33where Regulators Force AI companies to
715. 26:36destroy code and Associated data because
716. 26:39of illegal practices and using
717. 26:42copyrighted data in the AI data sets is
718. 26:44illegal
719. 26:47it's the hope that these AI companies
720. 26:49are forced to start with a clean
721. 26:51database of public domain or opt-in
722. 26:53images rather than their current
723. 26:54databases full of stolen scraped data
724. 26:57that will mean that the generated images
725. 26:59won't be nearly as good as they are
726. 27:01right now
727. 27:02that's at least a step in the right
728. 27:04direction though I personally don't
729. 27:06think it goes far enough because
730. 27:08eventually with enough opt-in the output
731. 27:11will be as good in a few years as it is
732. 27:13now and that just delays the problem for
733. 27:15artists the key is to not train the AI
734. 27:19to take over any value job these systems
735. 27:22need to be human-centric and remain
736. 27:24human-centric for future Generations
737. 27:27Abhishek Gupta from the Montreal AI
738. 27:30ethics Institute recently said something
739. 27:32really powerful he said let's stop
740. 27:35redesigning ourselves for the AI systems
741. 27:38let's redesign the AI system so that
742. 27:41they better serve our needs our hopes
743. 27:43our aspirations our values
744. 27:46it is so true we don't need Ai and
745. 27:50machines creating art or taking honest
746. 27:52jobs
747. 27:53let's not design them for that purpose
748. 27:55from the start
749. 27:58the third strategy against the robot
750. 28:01Uprising is social pressure
751. 28:04now I'm not one of those sjws the social
752. 28:07justice Warriors I think mob mentality
753. 28:10is dangerous I don't like to see people
754. 28:12getting canceled and de-platformed based
755. 28:15on the latest and trendiest cause but I
756. 28:17do see where it has been beneficial when
757. 28:20the legal system lets us down
758. 28:22social and consumer pressure can be a
759. 28:24powerful force we've lived through a
760. 28:26time where we've seen a massive company
761. 28:28like blizzard forced to get rid of a
762. 28:30sexual predator in a company just
763. 28:32because of a public outcry
764. 28:35imagine if we all said we're not buying
765. 28:37games from a particular studio anymore
766. 28:39because they replace their concept
767. 28:41artists with AI
768. 28:43we're not shopping at that online
769. 28:44retailer anymore because they're using
770. 28:46delivery Bots instead of couriers we're
771. 28:48not supporting their department store
772. 28:50until they ditch their self-checkouts
773. 28:52and hire real cashiers again we're not
774. 28:54buying prints from that art store until
775. 28:56they ban AI art
776. 28:59we need to take that attitude already
777. 29:02and I'm so happy to see this there has
778. 29:04been a lot of public banding together
779. 29:06against AI for example the recent art
780. 29:10station drama
781. 29:11now art station is the industry standard
782. 29:13artist portfolio platform where art
783. 29:16directors go to find artists to work on
784. 29:18projects
785. 29:19but the site is completely flooded with
786. 29:22no effort AI art leaving real artists
787. 29:25unable to get any real exposure
788. 29:28so not only do art session not ban the
789. 29:31AR art but they automatically opted us
790. 29:34all into having our Arts scraped by
791. 29:36airbots and then said if we want to opt
792. 29:39out we need to go into each one of our
793. 29:42projects and manually add no AI tag
794. 29:46for some of us that's literally years of
795. 29:48Art
796. 29:49it backfired though artists banded
797. 29:51together and started flooding the site
798. 29:53with anti-ai imagery to the point where
799. 29:56they had to appoint moderators to
800. 29:58prevent all the AI sentiment from
801. 30:00dominating their trending sections
802. 30:02many of us have also just straight up
803. 30:04left the platform and starting to use
804. 30:07art gram and new grounds instead these
805. 30:10two portfolio sites have at least taken
806. 30:12hard stances against AI
807. 30:15I'll put links to those in the
808. 30:17description
809. 30:18this is what we need to do
810. 30:21stop giving your business to companies
811. 30:22that hate you and start supporting
812. 30:24companies that are doing the ethical
813. 30:25thing
814. 30:27as a society we have the power to
815. 30:30stigmatize generative art so that no
816. 30:33employer thinks of replacing their staff
817. 30:35with AI because they know their
818. 30:37customers just won't stand for it
819. 30:39we don't need government regulation or
820. 30:41litigation to achieve that we just need
821. 30:43to start appreciating human-made crafts
822. 30:45and human effort more
823. 30:47as a society we need to stop thinking in
824. 30:49terms of money and convenience and start
825. 30:51valuing people's skills and loving our
826. 30:54fellow man enough not to make them
827. 30:55destitute
828. 30:58just because it's not your job on the
829. 31:00line doesn't mean that it's okay
830. 31:04resolve to pay a little bit extra if you
831. 31:07know it's handcrafted or supporting mom
832. 31:09and pop businesses or Freelancers let's
833. 31:12start using hashtags highlighting our
834. 31:14non-ai work hashtag no Ai and hashtag
835. 31:17human artists are both becoming pretty
836. 31:19popular
837. 31:20maybe we can think of some other ones
838. 31:22maybe hashtag handcrafted or hashtag
839. 31:24node to AI Etc let's use these tags and
840. 31:27support people using them
841. 31:29lets all of us also agree to never use
842. 31:32AI for commercial purposes
843. 31:34you want to mess around the AI for lol's
844. 31:36fine you want to use the our art on your
845. 31:39personal profile or get the AR art
846. 31:41printed for your own home also find in
847. 31:44my opinion but don't use it in lieu of
848. 31:46paying an artist if you would have paid
849. 31:48an artist pay a damn artist
850. 31:51and know that there are some artists who
851. 31:52give the world a bad name you get these
852. 31:55people who drag their ass over a canvas
853. 31:57or tap a banana to a wall and call it
854. 31:59art both of those are actually things by
855. 32:02the way
856. 32:03I know that there's a lot of
857. 32:05pretentiousness in the art world and a
858. 32:07lot of artists that are flaky don't
859. 32:09deliver on time because they're taking a
860. 32:11month off for mental health issues or
861. 32:13they're not feeling inspired or whatever
862. 32:15but there's also a lot of genuine
863. 32:17artists who are reliable and skilled and
864. 32:20they deserve to earn a living
865. 32:22so I know that sometimes the sentiment
866. 32:24is anti-artists
867. 32:28but if they take artist jobs they'll
868. 32:31take all jobs
869. 32:33the robot Uprising is here but it's not
870. 32:35how we picture it back in the 80s we
871. 32:38thought it was going to look like this
872. 32:41now we know it's a lot more Insidious
873. 32:43let's guard against this not just for
874. 32:45creatives
875. 32:46but for anyone's job that's at stake
876. 32:48it's love and appreciate each other and
877. 32:50our efforts
878. 32:52I'll tell you who I appreciate I
879. 32:53appreciate my patrons and I appreciate
880. 32:56you for watching and spreading this
881. 32:58video
882. 32:59and Now ladies and gentlemen I need to
883. 33:02go and drink some water my mouth is so
884. 33:04dry I'm not used to talking this much
885. 33:07until the next one God bless