On the cost of hiring an artist for a book cover. A couple hundred pounds would be the cheapest end of the spectrum. And that is really very cheap given the number of work hours that appear to be invested. Probably within a year books published directly through amazon can ask an amazon AI to read the book (or blurb) and wizard them up an acceptable cover.
I suspect some artists might loose business, but I imagine that many might benefit from these tools. For example some tool where the artist draws some stick men in different colours and says “the green one is an orc, the red one our hero who you drew in the last image etc.” this allows the artist to transmit certain spatial details that might be hard to put in text to the ai. Basically all the tedious details can be done by an ai onto a human drawn skeleton image.
On the cost of hiring an artist for a book cover. A couple hundred pounds would be the cheapest end of the spectrum. And that is really very cheap given the number of work hours that appear to be invested. Probably within a year books published directly through amazon can ask an amazon AI to read the book (or blurb) and wizard them up an acceptable cover.
I suspect some artists might loose business, but I imagine that many might benefit from these tools. For example some tool where the artist draws some stick men in different colours and says “the green one is an orc, the red one our hero who you drew in the last image etc.” this allows the artist to transmit certain spatial details that might be hard to put in text to the ai. Basically all the tedious details can be done by an ai onto a human drawn skeleton image.