I'm Losing My Art Job to AI...What I'm Doing About it

A video essay sharing my thoughts on AI generative art, what I think it will do to the illustration industry, and also some positive steps artists can take to carry on working in the creative field.

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SOURCES
How AI is stealing your art by Julia Bausenhardt
https://juliabausenhardt.com/how-ai-is-stealing-your-art/
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/06/239031/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/
New Report Confirms Worst Fears: AI Will Disrupt Countless Animation Jobs Over Next 3 Years https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/union-study-says-generative-ai-will-disrupt-204000-jobs-three-years-237495.html
Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084393/make-no-mistake-ai-is-owned-by-big-tech/
This is how AI is impacting – and shaping – the creative industries, according to experts at Davos https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/02/ai-creative-industries-davos/
How Concerned Should Illustrators Be About AI (Artificial Intelligence)? http://businessofillustration.com/how-concerned-should-illustrators-be-about-ai-artificial-intelligence/#:~:text=AI%20represents%20a%20serious%20threat,and%20already%20have%20begun%20to.
ChatGPT And More: Large Scale AI Models Entrench Big Tech Power https://ainowinstitute.org/publication/large-scale-ai-models
Are Illustrators Doomed to be Replaced and Impoverished https://www.katjweiss.com/blog/2023/5/10/are-illustrators-doomed-to-be-replaced-and-impoverished-by-ai-technology
AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable https://www.wired.com/story/art-artificial-intelligence-history/

00:00 AI is scraping my work
01:27 How I found out
02:22 illustrator's perspective on AI
04:54 AI art will soon be normalised
06:21 devaluation of art
07:45 fear of becoming obsolete
08:12 AI and big tech
10:15 How artists can survive despite AI

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