As a person who loves drawing and painting, I’m not keen on the future for the arts with the use of AI. I do imagine art will evolve and become more personal to counteract the quick and easy tool of AI-generated works. But as far as writing goes, I’ve always liked having visuals. I’ll sometimes collect a view to keep around me when I write to set the mood or remind me of the tone I’m looking forward.
In the past, I’ve used photographs I’ve taken, sketches, screenshots from movies, video games, and comics. Anything to help me focus, but even with the help of Pinterest and Google Image Search, I hit a point where I’m not finding the details I want to visualize. With AI, I can quickly create the scene I want to visualize. I can alter the setting with the weather to see if I’m placing the scene at the right time of year or day. I believe the better we can visualize our location, the clearer it’ll be for the readers, especially if we hope they’ll imagine some fantastical realm.
As a proponent of using AI ethically, I would never want to use AI art in the finished product, but these visualizations can also be the prompts to hand artists to direct them toward a clearer understanding of what you are expecting, be it cover or interior illustrations.
As someone who briefly toiled in freelance graphic work, I found clients especially frustrating when they couldn’t pinpoint what they wanted. If someone handed me AI-generated art today, I’d be pretty excited to kick its algorithm square in the A, just to defend against this push towards AI art.
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