alt Hacker NewsThere is no problem unless you insist on reflecting what you had in mind exactly. That needs minute controls, but no matter the medium and tools you use, unless you're doing it in your own quest for artistic perfection, the economic constraints will make you stop short of your idea - there's always a point past which any further refinement will not make a difference to the audience (which doesn't have access to the thing in your head to use as reference), and the costs of continuing will exceed any value (monetary or otherwise) you expect to get from the work.
AI or not, no one but you cares about the lower order bits of your idea.
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>There is no problem unless you insist on reflecting what you had in mind exactly.
Not disagreeing, just noting: this is not how [most?] people's minds work {I don't think you're holding to that opinion particularly, I'm just reflecting on this point}. We have vague ideas until an implementation is shown, then we examine it and latch on to a detail and decide if it matches our idea or not. For me, if I'm imagining "a superhero planting vegetables in his garden" I've no idea what they're actually wearing, but when an artist or genAI shows me it's a brown coat then I'll say "no something more marvel". Then when ultimately they show me something that matches the idea I had _and_ matches my current conception of the idea I had... then I'll point out the fingernails are too long, when in the idea I hadn't even perceived the person had fingers, never mind too-long fingernails!
I'd warrant any actualised artistic work has some delta with the artists current perception of the work; and a larger delta with their initial perception of it.
I disagree. Even without exactness, adding any reasonable constraints is impossible. Ask it to generate a realistic circuit diagram or chess board or any other thing where precision matters. Good luck going back and forth getting it right.
These are situations with relatively simple logical constraints, but an infinite number of valid solutions.
Keep in mind that we are not requiring any particular configuration of circuit diagram, just any diagram that makes sense. There are an infinite number of valid ones.
Nobody else really cares about the lower order bits of the idea but they do care that those lower order bits are consistent. The simplest example is color grading: most viewers are generally ignorant of artistic choices in color palettes unless it’s noticeable like the Netflix blue tint but a movie where the scenes haven’t been made consistently color graded is obviously jarring and even an expensive production can come off amateur.
GenAI is great at filling in those lower order bits but until stuff like ControlNet gets much better precision and UX, I think genAI will be stuck in the uncanny valley because they’re inconsistent between scenes, frames, etc.