That’s a well balanced perspective. And I don’t mean to be a Luddite or anything, but I just don’t think I see what this will be useful for outside of the typical advertising and abusive use cases.
One use case I can currently imagine, outside of advertising, is maybe storyboarding, because you don’t really care much about fidelity or even style there, and it’s primarily a scaffolding tool. However, I’m not terribly sure of the feedback loop being anywhere near that of a director or cinematographer or writer sitting down with a storyboard artist. But maybe you don’t have access to a storyboard artist.
There is a valid position of asking “why do we need this?”, and I don’t think it gets asked enough in technology. One thing I am sure of is that this type of machine learning art will be abused.
There is an unfortunate inevitability though with humans and technology.
I don't understand the motivation of the person who sees 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per second, 30+ new video games released on Steam per day, 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every day and 6,000 Tweets being made per second, and decides "You know what the World needs? A way of enabling more people to make more content faster."
One use case I can currently imagine, outside of advertising, is maybe storyboarding, because you don’t really care much about fidelity or even style there, and it’s primarily a scaffolding tool. However, I’m not terribly sure of the feedback loop being anywhere near that of a director or cinematographer or writer sitting down with a storyboard artist. But maybe you don’t have access to a storyboard artist.
There is a valid position of asking “why do we need this?”, and I don’t think it gets asked enough in technology. One thing I am sure of is that this type of machine learning art will be abused.
There is an unfortunate inevitability though with humans and technology.