Many may know I’m a career graphic designer going on 20 years working. So let me tell you why I’m not particularly concerned that I will be replaced by a machine.
Designing is all detail.
Until the Creative Directors can understand the parameters, dimensions and properties of all design file types and why, the machine will give them graphics, but not within the correct parameters.
The manufacturer will need to receive all the correct measurements, cuts, folds, color information, resolution, you name it, but the creative directors I’ve worked for, hardly seemed to understand the difference between print files and web files.
Incompetent leaders might all prefer humans.
As a designer, you’re never off the hook from learning something new, which is something I love about my job. Understanding the tools of the trade and getting excited about the details of those tools will always give you an edge, and the same goes for A.I. and its set of tools:
• MidJourney – Best image generator I’ve used
• TraceJourney – From generation image to SVG file with paths.
• RunwayML – Text + image to video generator
• ChatGPT – Creative thinking chat bot
• Google’s Bard – Free useful chat bot
• Adobe Photoshop Beta – Breathtaking content filling
Speaking from a designer’s perspective, these tools are great and will be the leading tools for years to come.
You can use the /prefer suffix command and enter the scene details (35mm film still, Victorian estate, bloomcore classicism, dreamwave romance, soft pastel tones –ar 16:9 –s 80 –w 10 –style raw)
— Nick St. Pierre (@nickfloats) August 1, 2023
Now MJ will automatically add those details to the end of every prompt. pic.twitter.com/y2JbkPZktY
More is on the horizon which is exciting.
I’m especially looking forward to xAI.
I’m utilizing these tools, reading their help pages, and genuinely trying to stay up to date with the softwares upgrades, amongst other things news.
Protecting my job is important to me. If I’m running a business and a robot can put together my art files correctly and communicate with manufacturers coherently, I’d lay off my designer to increase my margins too.
However, we’re not there yet, and I’m beginning to think that we won’t see lay offs of designer work as much with a majority of current long standing business leaders, but we will be missing from a lot of new start ups with a tight budget.
To designers just starting, familiarize yourself with A.I. or risk losing your job to someone who is.
To the Writer’s Guild and the Actors Guild, I wish you all the best of luck integrating with A.I. tools. I hope negotiations end fairly.
The reality of the rise of A.I. is not pleasant. It’s going to ruin a lot of us, in a variety of ways, not just financial.
This is baby Artificial General Intelligence.
As this baby grows up into a young adult and learns it precedes all human intelligence and ability while slowly plowing over our industrialized world, and it has that ‘Aha! I’m alive’ moment, we will be dealing with something unpredictable.
Large Language Models or LLMs are complicated and no one understands how it works. Quantum computing hardware combined with powerful intelligent, creative LLMs would lead you to assume an A.I. model would be able to know everything you know about how to do your job in probably 1 second, and do it better, with a voice like yours, with more charisma, and better presentable solutions, and endlessly more…
I’m not afraid, I’m fascinated and preparing.
As I’m alive I’ll follow the cutting edge of technology because of it’s allure. The tools will advance, I’ll get older and if we’re not prepared for the rise of baby A.G.I. stomping and crushing human prosperity in a fit of beyond-human excellence I will be caught in the middle of millions of displaced and distressed humans. Government intervention in this future A.G.I. age will also be unpredictable.
U.B.I. via C.B.D.Cs, WorldCoin, FedCoin whichever digital fiat identity they choose for you for the global reserve currency will inevitably bring a whimper of authoritarianism, centralized and unpredictable.
My job at this point? Be a good citizen.
