Trashbag Ghost

👻➡️🧞 AI is eating illustration alive. In many ways it's really the walking dead, many don't realize it just yet. What's an artist to do? I tapped back into my production roots and started an agency specializing ONLY in insane PR/seeding kits. Literally all we do and I'm loving it! Follow what I'm up to these days @GenieCreativeUS

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Losing my job to AI, gta 6 cyber leek pr box edition 🥹

Losing my job to AI, 🍓soda edition 🥹

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In what sense does an artist own their style? They used to have the ability to gatekeep it maybe, but that era has come to an end. For the next half century or so you will have humans who trailblazed a "signature style" argue they do own their style, of course, but after that, it will cease to have meaning and be akin to selecting paint swatch at Home Depot. Of course this is possible now technically, I'm just saying the notion of a "style" will cease to have meaning legally and emotionally. Rule sets. Where does that leave "art" in all this? Been thinking about that for several years now, I will get back to you! 😇

Probably not that long until “prompt to snack” at this rate 🥨

Cc: @projectpayphone 800 block N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA 🌴

All means of physically rendering art is now a parlor trick. Still fun ⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⢶⣦⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠙⠻⣿⣿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣇⠀ ⠀⠀⢤⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢸⣷⡄⠀ ⣀⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣆ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠏⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠿⠇⢀⣼⣿⣿⠛⢯⡿⡟ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠦⠴⢿⢿⣿⡿⠷⠀⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣷⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣦⠃⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟

What if humans aren’t as special as we thought and “intelligence” is just a different form of physics that expressed itself through us? 🤔

Artists, did you spend the past 3 years searching your soul to build a counter-argument to your own existence or did you spend it posting “ai art isn’t art🚫😭” on X? You might be right, but what if that wasn’t the right question…

heads up to followers who've followed me for art: freelance art is just kind of like meditation or gaming for me now. a healthy enjoyable dopamine drip way to spend some time but not a serious career. AI changed the game for freelance illustrators, I saw it coming years ago which is why I pivoted to a specialty agency model. AI will consume/radically change that eventually too, it's just a longer runway, which is cool. Storytelling and creating things that the market demands that require complex manual intervation are two keys as I see it if you choose to forge ahead as a creative. That's what I'm doing at @GenieCreativeUS So I love and respect anyone who's followed me over the years for my art, but time's change and so do people, so this is your loving and respectful heads up that my activity here is going to be more... "well rounded" shall we say, moving ahead, and you may not be interested in the topics, and I don't want to give whiplash to anyone who's supported and liked what I do in the past! I'll keep this account, when spooky projects come around I'll post here, but I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of conversations I'm interested in in terms of gaming, technology, investing, and just life in general by keeping this acct (started in a world that no longer exists) pigeonholed to art content <3 👻

Hey artist, AI is outside your window about to come inside, eat your insides and wear your face as a mask. 🤯 By my reckoning, there are two amulets of protection if you choose to continue to pursue a creative career. You better be one of the worlds best storytellers, and/or you need to be involved in the production of physical goods that the market demands. The time for arguing whether this is good or bad was in philosophy class a decade ago, it simply IS now. The top image is my art, the second is AI generated based on the lowest effort prompt possible. Even gets the concept of the tattoos “F Sunshine” haha. And remember, AI today is the absolute worst it will ever be. Kind of crazy! So make a plan artist, because your pixels living on a screen in the absence of a story are going to a market value of close to zero! AI will come to be accepted as a legitimate creative tool to be wielded ethically and creatively just as the camera, Photoshop or anything else. Spending time feeling bad and dwelling on some notion of cosmic unfairness is a sure way to ensure you wind up broke and jobless by 2027. So don’t do that! I say this out of love. I started game planning my own strategy a couple years ago and it’s uncomfortable to see so many fellow artists living in denial or genuine ignorance about where this tech is and where it’s going (fast!). I love art, I love making art, I love watching my friends make art, but that doesn’t change the fact that the game is switching to hard mode. Wake up! ❤️

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Uncle O’Grimacey and Grimace!

McDonald’s horror render processing… 😈☘️

Evil uncle O’Grimacey wip in zbrush

The existence of an evil Grimace implies the existence of an evil Uncle O’Grimacey… ☘️🤯 Seeking indemnification from @McDonalds to keep bringing this art to reality cc: @HuinGuillaume

I took another beloved food mascot and did something terrible to him! WATCH! I 💚🪱 @eatrotten_

Fricked up @koolaid man! ❤️😈💯 Who should I frick up next?