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Love the artwork for this. Off topic, but when I see art like this I now have to wonder if it was produced through AI-assisted generation

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I notice AI generated artwork is very good at getting an accurate main subject of the artwork, but seems to lack having small sized details of an image be consistent with the broad message

Things like having a waterfall on the positive side seem very human to me and I doubt it was done by AI

Quanta has the following roles [1], though I wonder how much duplication there is given that several cite "illustration" :

- Art Director

- Graphics Editor

- Visual Designer

Once these AI/ML tools become better, I think a lot of magazines and news orgs will lower their staffing for this role and redeploy the capital to other efforts.

Hopefully existing illustrators can stay on board and work in other creative areas.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/

Of course, these AI generation tools are still driven by people who need to learn different techniques for incorporating them with their use of traditional graphics tools.

See this video of someone generating a scene with a photoshop stable diffusion plugin, combined with other photoshop tooling: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...

The art at the top of the article is breathtaking, and looks like it would take a much longer time than writing the article, unless assisted by AI, hence the speculation on my part

It's credited to Jason Lyon

Since it seems there are multiple Jason Lyons out there, thought it might be good to link directly to their portfolio: https://www.jason-lyon.com/

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