The last weeks of this summer have been especially important in the field of artificial intelligence. Following the public beta of Midjourney and the release of Stable Diffusion, many people have started discussing on forums and social media what the future holds when these tools become standardized. Is it the end of the artists? Or will they use AI to their advantage to save time and get better ideas? The youtuber The one we are going to talk about today seems to have perfectly understood how an artificial intelligence can help him in his work.
Artificial intelligence as inspiration
We are in full technological revolutioneven if we don’t believe it. Hollywood movies always told us that artificial intelligence would kick in for those monotonous, manual tasks. Those that nobody wants to do. Creative work and art would always have their backs covered. And, like so many times, Hollywood was wrong. In recent years, the advancement of artificial intelligence in the creative field It has been spectacular. The debate around this type of AI has been divided into two large groups: those who are enthusiastic and want this to continue to evolve, and those who completely reject this technology, considering that it will kill many jobs. The same thing that already happened in the industrial revolutions.
Beyond the negative comments that some users have made on the Internet in recent days, there are also image artists who are experimenting with these new technologies. The youtuber The Harry Gold Show It is one of the most interesting cases that we are going to see. Harry has a channel where he usually paint your own pokemon (what in the world is known as Fakemon). In his latest videos, the artist has used artificial intelligence to take ideas that he has later materialized with his own hands.
For its video, The Harry Gold Show has used two different AIs: Dall-E Mini (now known as CrAIyon) and Midjourney. At first, the artist places inputs staples on both platforms, such as ‘grass-type Pokémon’. But soon he realizes that he can enter anything. This is how it begins to generate a cheese Pokémon, another based on Shrek or the sinister type creature that you would find during a sleep paralysis.
Unlike others of us who use these tools, Harry Gold does not seek to find the final result in AI. In fact, using Midjourney correctly, the artist could obtain a drawing with the type of line and style characteristic of Pokémon. It would suffice to experiment with variants of the prompts in which Ken Sugimori or James Turner are mentioned, to mention a couple of important Game Freak cartoonists. Instead, The Harry Gold Show plays on Dall-E Mini’s inaccuracy so that he ends up interpreting the AI design himself and being able to say that the final work is yours.
As if that were not enough, at the end of the video he shows that the names he has given to the creatures are also the work of another AI. As you can see from this example, not everything is going to be uphill for artists and designers. For many, AI is simply going to be a replacement for Google Images or Pinterest when searching inspiration.
