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RE: The Shortcut to AI Mastery
It seems to me that the added value in everything you have created is not quantifiable in terms of quality. It is a qualitative factor that can only be judged by you, satisfied with your work with AI. What makes me think is that you created all this without skills, without study. Knowledge is the basis of know-how. The manga movie you made, for example, could have serious directorial or technical skills errors that a professional would never make. So where does the value in all this lie? In this era of easy access for everyone to produce something (which produces AI, actually), I often ask myself the question: where is the value if there is no previous study in that subject? Does producing with AI without certified previous knowledge have a human value? Owning a house by buying it is equivalent to declaring yourself an expert mason?
It's all about a "shortcut" without knowing the original route?
Perhaps.
But...
... Is worth more than $7 to me.
Thanks a lot for your comment that gave me a lot of food for thoughts.
This is far from the truth. AI doesn't substitute the learning curve but it gives you tools. In the example of manga. I wouldn't claim that my Manga's are perfect, probably far from that. However, I don't know how to draw and thanks to AI, I can circumvent this part. When I make a panel however, it's not AI creating it. I create a background image, a character image, then I overlay them, add blurs, manga symbols, work on the expression of the character and finally try to order all into a coherent story. AI produces the drawings but they are only as good as I prompt them. To assemble things, I actually tried to understand how manga work and what techniques are applied. Then again, I'm a beginner and the quality of my output isn't professional. But the difference is that there is an output at all. Without AI, I would have never been capable of creating an output...
Skills come from applying them as does knowledge. You will only learn a skill if you can use it in a form or another and that's what AI allows me to do.
Value is a relative thing in this respect. For somebody who doesn't care about Manga, what is the value of Manga? For me, this tool allowed me to learn much more and start creating things. I learned a lot about Manga and a whole world opened to me. For me this is a big added value.
I think that you misunderstand what AI is. AI doesn't just give you a perfect result. If you want to create a visual animation, it will look wrong 99% of the time. AI will produce 5 seconds to 15 seconds clips and most of the time you won't be able to use them. If the Manga drawer needed to learn how to draw, the AI manga animator needs to learn how to use the AI so that it gives the best results. This is a long learning curve and I speak from experience.
When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he took away the monopole of copying books from monks that were copying books by hand. Now you could copy a book without the knowledge of the monks. But new knowledge was needed. You needed a whole new set of skills related to the printing press to reach a final result.
I see the use of AI in the same respect. It's a technology that will substitute others but this technology in itself requires a lot of skills and knowledge and that is exactly the reason why I wrote my book. In my opinion AI is not a technology to shortcut the original route. The aim of my book is to learn how to deal with AI at a high level without needing to do all the mistakes that I have done during this year. I don't believe that AI will disappear again. It's a technology that is here to stay and I believe that only very few people really know how to work correctly with AI. The book is a way for people to understand this technology better and to get a head start for when it will be a required skill in most jobs.
'When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he took away the monopole of copying books from monks that were copying books by hand.'
But if you don't know how to write, It doesn't matter what tool you use. AI writes for you, if you want. It is only a probabilistic algorithm, and not a deterministic one. If you let the AI write for you, You won't have really written something. You will only have delegated the task.
In making backgrounds for your manga it doesn't matter how you helped the AI produce the result, if you don't have expertise in making comics or manga, your background can be beautiful but totally useless.
To make a manga you need multiple skills that you only get with experience and study. Making manga is a Japanese cultural process that goes beyond the comprehension of a Western imitation.
At the same time American, Argentine, French, Italian comics... They all have different rules and 'souls' that must be studied and understood.
"Making a manga with the AI" has no meaning, without the culture.
The culture and the skills are the real background in every human form of art.
AI is an algorithm.