Over the past few years, Lightcone has started using AI art in more of our products. This is a fairly easy and fun part of our job, but I've noticed often there's just a lotta art that needs to get made which we don't quite have the bandwidth to do ourselves. 

So I'm looking into hiring* an AI** artist for periodic contract gigs (this wouldn't be a fulltime thing, I have one initial job in mind, if it goes well we may periodically have other jobs to offer).

* we aren't sure we want to hire a person for this, this isn't a top organizational priority, it's more like I'm checking if someone exists who would integrate pretty quickly/easily into our workflow.

** in theory, we could hire, like, a traditional artist. I think realistically it just wouldn't actually be worth the money. The part of me that originally got a degree in Art is sad about this, but, like, notably we didn't have much art at all on LessWrong until AI made it much lower cost and achievable for it to be a lightweight part of product iteration.

Onboarding into the Lightcone Aesthetic / House Style

I know a lot of people are making lots of AI art for fun these days and are pretty good at it. I think it is a noticeably different task to make a bunch of art in a particular style matching particular aesthetic guidelines. 

In order for this to make sense, we need someone who has good artistic taste, who is able to make high level creative decisions while tracking a lot of subtleties about what the Lightcone Aesthetic (and various sub-aesthetics) are going for.

I honestly have no idea how much makes sense to pay for this sort of role, I could imagine anywhere from "pretty cheap for someone who finds it very fun/easy and hits our minimum requirements" to "pay more serious professional artist salary for someone we can trust to make high level decisions autonomously."

If you are interested, send me a DM with a link to a portfolio.