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>>dredmo+(OP)
I've been finding that the strangest part of discussions around art AI among technical people is the complete lack of identification or empathy: it seems to me that most computer programmers should be just as afraid as artists, in the face of technology like this!!! I am a failed artist (read, I studied painting in school and tried to make a go at being a commercial artist in animation and couldn't make the cut), and so I decided to do something easier and became a computer programmer, working for FAANG and other large companies and making absurd (to me!!) amounts of cash. In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done. Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art for a living- and, if AI is able to do these astonishingly difficult things, why shouldn't it, with some finagling, also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...

>>meebob+kc
The empathy you imply might also require that the artists (or programmer's) jobs be preserved, for the sake of giving them purpose and a way to make a living.

I dont think that is absolutely something a society must guarantee. People are made obsolete all the time.

What needs to be done is to produce new needs that currently cannot be serviced by the new AI's. I'm sure it will come - as it has for the past hundred years when technology supplanted an existing corpus of workers. A society can make this transition smoother - such as a nice social safety-net, and low-cost/free education for retraining into a different field.

In fact, these things are all sorely needed today, without having the AIs' disruptions.