As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it’s also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it’s a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?
drawing in-betweens all day is the definition of drudgery. if an AI can do it with a human checking the results it would mean a human can make more keyframes. it would mean increased profits for studios under capitalism rather than more jobs for animators, sure, but under socialism if arts are funded and developed by state grants it would mean more independent animation groups could put out more original animations that look better because all of the human effort goes to storyboards, keyframes, choosing colors carefully, tightening up the script, and so on.
The thing is that technology is being developed to replace artists, not to help them create more.