Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Preamble
01:59 Tools and Setup
03:17 Prompt #1
08:29 Prompt #2
10:34 Prompt #3
12:24 Side-by-Sides
18:28 Reveal
DALL-E 2 from OpenAI can create shockingly impressive images from complex prompts in a matter of seconds — but luckily for Tim, it still isn’t as robust as a real graphic designer.
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tim is amazing WOW
that guy is the cutist graphic designer I've ever seen 😍
i hate not seeing the last one but i think dall e doesnt allow to show the other ones right?
yeah, do this next year, and it will be grim.
Try img2img
7:27 😳
Wow, so many close-ups and screen time of the people and comparatively little of the actual images. A couple of thumbnails at the bottom is all you get.
endorsent of the second option but it does exist.
Are you sure that this is SAFE to use?
4 months later coming back to this video. The anwser is definitely yes. With inpainting, img2img, other models of stable diffusion etc. The world of art is definitely shaking at the moment.
Dont worry. KI never gets creativ.
Tim nailed it!! Graphic designers prevail! Tim should make more videos!
This video is fucking depressing.
Graphic Designer, Cinematographer, Photographer, Models, Crew Behind Production, Influencers.
All of them will be affected by image and video-generating AI. It's just a matter of time now. The advancement in this field is scary. We will probably be seeing regular humanoid robots in reception, hotels, etc way too common soon.
It's not if it can, but when will it do it.
I can see how the AI can achieve results by referencing super detailed pieces (and being able to hide flaws in those details), but I’d love to see more examples that use very clean and deliberate strokes, like in 2D animation or traditional comic book art
Amazing stuff. This will def help with the workflow and content creation. We are heading towards symbiosis. AI will replace 90% of jobs in the future. We just need to find a way to work with AI instead of fighting against it. Double edged sword scenario: a lot of the work does look similar if everyone starts using it, and as a creative thats the last thing you want. Another is the work done by humans, in print and digital will be "worth" a lot more. Comparing furniture made in factories vs hand made etc. There are robots creating music as well, are we going to stop listening to human musicians and artists? There will always be a human element as long a humanity does not destroy itself. I LOVE TECHNOLOGY!
I'm feeling really bad he looks so visibly stressed
I hope it does
🗞️🧹🤖
What all of the creative people have to realize is that the AI programmers are — wait for it — using YOUR material without your permission. What I mean by that is: An AI is simply a bunch of code. In order to obtain its spectacular results, IT MUST BE 'FED' IMAGES ::::THAT WERE CREATED BY HUMANS ::::! That means they are stealing your material, and repurposing it – for $$$$
Smart people would get together, and launch a class action suit against this, they should at least try to get paid for getting paid for the use of their work – it would turn into, basically – annuities. That's probably the best you can get, unless you find a REALLY, REALLY clever lawyer…
Think fast – not only is your future on the line, but the thing that you love the most is about to be ripped from your hands!
Share this – over and over!
Peace
This really goes against one of the main reasons robots were invented in the first place. Art (which includes video, photography, painting, illustration, graphic design, visual design, sculpting, crafting, etc.) was supposed to be something humans had left to continue to feel wholesome when robots/AIs took all the other repetitive and dangerous tasks… I’m seeing AI generated writing, art, video production, etc. like dang… no one is going to see a purpose in creating, period in the next decades. We’ll expect everything to be generated for us immediately and develop no real skills unless an individual really wants to but society won’t see them as valuable given the other options. Everyone, including Marques, will be out of jobs because people will be able to just make their own content to watch or upload for others to watch. Then there’s the question if that content should be monetized or not since we’re not actually creating anything, maybe the creators of the AI? Just weird to see we’re going into the direction of Wall-E fr. 😅 Just wait til an engineer build an AI that can build an entire app from a single prompt tho, then they’ll want to fight 😂
Did some others mention that 3D software might be a better fit for some of these problems? For example, the Deer. Your problems doing that might have been solved by the texture and lighting features of a 3D software program. Also the robot wall… I'm not an artist, but I've used several 3D software program for a few decades now, most recently Blender. I suggest you consider adding Blender – Open Source Free 3D program – to your skill set. Might solve lots of your work flow problems. Also be sure and check out the 2D art feature inside of Blender – Grease Pencil. Cheers. I continue to watch the AI Art space with interest.
the framing is always off with ai art somehow, unless straight centered
OMG… This was crazy… Awesome work Tim🔥
Tim was way better across the board🔥🔥🔥 kudos!
Dall-e still has ways to go. You cannot replace concept artists, illustrators and Graphic designers anytime soon 😀👍🏾
Tim thanks for making us (GDs) proud
No one asks to be replaced, I'm just really surprised that the artist are being replaced before things like putting things on a shelf
Great job Tim!!
Tim, you did an amazing job! Your pictures are amazing. 👍
Graphic design ≠ Photo Editing
He goes “ Dall E makes 10 of them at a time” then looks down in anguish and legitimate fear of being jobless
MONEY – It's all about time, which is represented by money. The hours, salary, health care, and "time" spent by Tim can not compete with DALL-E. Just like "99 Designs" disrupted the high priced designers in the 2010's – A new era of "Good Enough" design will be a tidal wave of economic destruction to skills that a machine can produce.
you all with be without a job soon enough
For "a deer covered in feathers", I would have just made a 9 foot tall pile of feathers with deer tracks leading into it
man created technology
and also
man fear of technology intelligence than the man itself
Beware of A.I , some day in the future, no human will be free under the power of A.I, thoose rule/law are straight and will cause a huge problem.
not man control A.I
is A.I control man
see, if you had any women on the team quality control wouldn't be so offset be the presence of boobs. 🙄
I mean, seriously… that was embarrassing! 😄
nobody even in editing thought to cut that bit?
Dali is cool but it still seems gimmicky to me. Novelty aside, I have yet to see anything made by this AI that I genuinely like.
Great video! But this is Dall-E from 5 months ago, maybe we need an update. But next time use Midjourney.
Nah, y'all are forgetting that it's a tool for artists. If youre guy had dall-e as a tool, itd make his job way easier and he'd have amazing composites withiut over doing computing power.
The chief editor of MKBHD taking help from PixImperfect's video proves Unmesh is the God of Photoshop
Being a creative is hard enough when dealing with pressure with our selves, the negative thoughts, and clients with their criticism. Imagine trying to compete with an AI. This whole video gives me anxiety as a creative myself. I feel bad for Tim, huge respect man, but his workflow is fun to watch. NGL, Dall-e is such an interesting and useful tool if used as an inspiration to get some idea. I am excited for its evolution but also there's a fear on the back of my mind about these AI. 👀
Tim needs more access to pictures, I've found Unsplash to be pretty limiting. Not sure but doesn't DallE use pretty much anything it can find online?
As a graphic designer myself, part of my job is making designs, but a good chunk of my value and expertise comes in knowing what looks good. If you replace Tim with DallE, you'll have to rely on your own untrained eye.
don't worry you can eat rice and beans when you totally lose your job
I found this a little cruel? Especially the 'good natured teasing that was clearly contributing to the stressful environment. As an artist myself, having people watch over my shoulder and comment without asking is so frustrating
Find a person experienced with using mid journey… not a human on earth can compete.
AI art is great for concepting but that's it really, it's not focused enough and messes faces, words, eyes, hands, feet, and proportions up. I've been using it to help myself come up with ideas on things to create. Maybe in another 5 or 10 years it will become more accurate until then it's just another tool in the belt.
"TIMYYY!!!!"
2 papers down the line: Yeah, that's it!
U BEST!!!
Tim's work was great, but Dall-e will be economical, & that's where it's scary.
11:00 “I’ve got four hours to get this done!” That’s not infinite time!
At the worst Dall-E will ever be: it already can’t be beaten by more than 2 out of 3.
Graphic Designer ≠ Illustrator/artist
Give me a tip, round circle editing red center, it that touch or mouse capable ? Because I'm getting a computer,design as a side hobby, I guess is still probably good to know, for pictures though if I want a circular vector range how can I actually employ without studio art built in contrast color change knob ?
Why al these guys are so feminine, like half of them are gays
Next time let Tim work with Dall-E for an hour and then show us the final results. The person feeding the AI with text plays a huge role in the success of the image.
No I wanted to see the goat alternate!
When you forget that language is very ambiguous
12:56 I've never been slapped in the face by a random guy in a video.
LMAO
Man this is really mean, what a bad idea for a video
This was a good video, but I’m frustrated because your next video cards are blocking the end of this video, and I can’t see the last Dall-E image that wasn’t used. 😩
Okay , that was an intimidating challenge for Tim for sure,, what I liked about him that he didn't back out and was confident of his skills despite being a bit shaky. Hats off dude!!
So, what I concluded about Dall-E 2 is that for it aesthetics matter a lot. I mean, in all the images, you can see the finishing is on the point, like those images look really pleasing , good for the eyes…
But a human will always focus on the words, like the output must match the requirement (words in this case) even if it doesn't please the eyes. The feather on the goat,,,, what Tim came up with is exactly what was asked.. but what Dall-E came up with was not the same but then it was really cool… something you would want to see 😀
Gotta say that I liked the mona-lisa one from Tim… it is a masterpiece,, I wonder if we can have a high-res version of it ;))
Terrifying. Image AI is getting better every month…
people forget where it received all of it's data from though…………………. this will just become a cesspool of shitty art
While definitely interesting for an experiment, the reality is that humans are still irreplaceable in the field of legitimate graphic design. If you're looking for random images of "unicorns invading Mars in the style of Dilbert", then maybe Dall-E would be your best bet. But if you are looking for "cool logo", or "album cover", you need a true artist.
Being in a mid 20's, thought for turn my career into graphic designing or digital art but then i came to know about this alien so called dall-e & midjourney which all made me to rethink and every videos makes me more confuse
Ai is image theft
The key is this—humans will always "sus out" things that AI can't—and vice versa. I've done work this month that an AI could never do—full stop. So, AI is really no different than when Pagemaker disrupted graphic design in the 1980s. The real breakthrough will be when AI gets paired up with quantum computing. When THAT happens–then creatives will be at a real disadvantage. AI running on digital systems is the bottleneck. AI running on quantum systems is a game changer. It will be like buying a car from Ford vs. buying a customer car—humans will be the customized option vs. an AI general option for the masses.
how smart is not so smart
trash
this was a great video. enjoyed watching Tim's process and everyone's reactions to the reveals. interesting and entertaining great job guys!
Would it be possible to get those pics in jpeg? Il would like to use them in class with some students.
Tim you have restored everyone's faith in humanity.
People call me crazy when I tell them we're only a few years, if not months, away from AI beginning to sweep across creative industries. Character, concept art, paintings, that's already a done deal. As people continue to use it, AI is trained to get better and more specific. So eventually logos, posters, motion graphics, entire CG scenes, clothing, interior design, architecture, music, etc. It will all be done by an AI in mere moments. Eventually, an AI will be trained on popular music, and it will be released into the wild, only then will a legal battle ensue because of that industries power and resistance to offer any music for AI to learn off of, but it will ultimately be too late for the artist, musicians, designers, and engineers. If we don't take a stand against it now we're finished.
"Oh, but don't worry. The artist will still be there to touch it up." No. They won't. Once these things are trained enough and get fast enough, all it will need is a prompt. And it won't have to be a very complicated prompt to get what you want either, as the public trains them on complex prompts they slowly begin to understand better what you're looking for until it can be entirely dumbed down. It will be able to come up with its own prompts if it wanted, its own styles, it will be able to take into account physics and math to create structures and re-engineer many of our technical designs to be superior. Sure, it will be some sort of golden age for progress and innovation, but what will happen to the artist? What will happen to all those jobs? Because even if companies still hired any, they would only need VERY few.
So, should I even pursue a future in art/design? Should I post my art online when I know silicon valley is gonna swoop in and add it to its AI without my permission? This is the end goal of every site we casually upload our content to. If u wanna get really crazy I'd say this is the breaking point for the Internet. The line between free use and personal property online will finally be treated as a serious issue. NFTs were an attempt to solve that, but ultimately were just a disgusting mess. The problem is once trainable AI gets into the hands of the public, there will be nothing to stop people from stealing anyone's content and training an AI to replicate their work and then call it their own.
Tim for the win!
Ahm I haven't watched this video but this question should be more of a philosophical nature than if it would be possible. I mean of course it could replace graphic designers like they exist nowadays, but is that truly wanted? I mean way to go and give a shit, right???
watching tutorial of piximperfect was dope think so 😀
This is just not cool 😕 the way this video is created, to be on the level of this guy takes years and talent it is sad to undermine him that way
The thing about the competition is that Dall-e can theoretically do 100 versions of it in the amount of time a graphic artist comes up with one. Thats kind of a tie breaker for a lot of businesses.
I kind of feel like a lot of these prompts would are the kinds of things I would expect AI to do better than working in 2D. I think such things would make more sense to create in 3D with a certain style than 2D. I also think that just asking an artist to draw weird things kind of… doesn't take advantage of the advantages of having a human do the art, which is to have something more coherent and creative in a way not seen before rather than just the average of some certain art style. So, I think the AI has a bit of an unfair advantage here simply because this is the kind of thing that makes more sense for an AI to do than human.
My favorite part of the video was the rotating sandal.
Best YT vid I have watched all year.
Better image what can artist do with this AI tech. together.
AI is a serious problem for our future as creators. I think AI developement is taking a wrong way, a way which only humans could be a part of
As expected, no AI can do unseen compilation properly. And that kinda suggests that AI is just imitating on a more brute force manner without knowing exactly how the image match the prompt. Meanwhile human still know things better and can create new things.Of course in the future AI could do things a bit better, but that people already concern about AI taking over is just a huge ignorant of human effort in art creation.
Tim is a class act. What AI will never give you is the thoughtfulness behind these decisions.
A. Tesla van with side doors that open up like the model y
I hope Tim was using a Mac Studio.
Impressive work, credit to Tim. I can feel the pressures 😂👏
5:46 Me when people tryna see me working on something
You guys need to do this challenge once again.
This time you should pit Tim against 2 AI:
1. Midjourney V4
2. Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth + in/out painting enabled.
Good luck Tim!! 😂😂
What people are forgetting is that Dall-e and other models are currently still limited by the data they collect and learn from. As we all know that can lead to some weaknesses and bias. As a company there are still problems you'll encounter using the machine learning models that will have to be corrected by a human. Here are some of Dall-e's weaknesses. Scenes with two characters, foreground and background, novel objects or nonstandard usages, spelling, realistic human faces (or faces of people who already exist, to avoid deepfakes), limitations of the "edit" functionality (so you end up having to compromise on certain picks). If you understand how these systems are trained you also know that since it gets its data from us uploading it and submitting etcera it is ultimately limited by how much we put into it. Novelty will present as a weakness for a lot of AI's.
TIM! 👏👏👏
He Literally pulled out Piximperfect tutorial while working on the project!
I think mid journey v4 unfortunately replaced Tim
i've been using their open API in my personal website to help people get access with ease !!
and they are truly interesting they also have a number of cool features like text completion,image variations ,and you can even train your own model, it will be a scary technology in the coming years
You guys should check MidJourney V4, it's crazy how much AI has evolved in just a few months
Poor artist dude seems visibly stressed out and anxious about this whole thing.