While I am quite excited about the Walton Goggins-infused Amazon Fallout series, the show debuted some promo art for the project ahead of official stills or footage and…it appears to be AI generated.
My guess is that AI’s first big victim for graphic design will be stock art. Previously, crap like that background asset would just be stock purchased from Getty or Adobe stock. Now it can be generated.
I’m already starting to use it instead of paying for bullshit licenses.
I’ve been using AI for school and work, as God intended: give it the raw, have it do the grunt organization work, and then proofread to correct anything.
There is very little to say that hasn’t been said. For an example of our limitations as humans, there’s only 50ish unique plot lines in the English language. To expect each person to be completely original is asinine.
It’s a tool, one of many in my toolbox. People who are just flat against any and all AI or LLMs are behind the curve.
Graphic designers aren’t the first. Automation ended a lot of jobs for decades. Ai is just a form of automation.
They will be generating it themselves soon enough. I contributed some stock photos in the past. They recently sent me info about their new contribution pipeline, for content that may not pass the usual quality threshold, but will help train the models. If they do it right, who knows, maybe they can get better results worth paying for.
That means no copyright- woohoo go nuts!
This is a viral marketing campaign. I hadn’t heard of the show, now I have. It’s a fuck you to artists and a planned rage bait to get people talking about the show.
Yeah I thought so, there would be no way that they’d screw up like that unless it was intentional
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WoT was utter garbage. LOTR was meh to good depending on who you talked to. They are definitely not on the same level.
I’m in the LOTR was good camp. I liked how it took its time. It felt vast and expansive but still coherent. And it was beautiful to look at. I hope the subsequent seasons can keep the quality up despite the changes to production.
When they actually get around to filming due to the strike lol
Thinking about all the money wasted on the LOTR show that could have gone into other programming.
Just throwing this out there because we don’t know for sure - but my hope is that Amazon paid their graphic designer/illustrator the regular rate for something like this and they saved themselves 90% of the time it would have taken by using Stable Diffusion and then took the rest of the day off.
Well this is already taking points off for sure. But let’s see if the show is good. If they stay true to the games and create a truly unique show, maybe it will be worthwhile.
