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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
I think it's more a lack of historical perspective on the part of artists. I remember when Photoshop and other digital art tools became available and many artists were of the opinion "Feh! Digital art isn't really art. Real artists work with pens, brushes, and paper!". Fast forward a couple of decades and you won't find many artists still saying that. Instead they've embraced the tools. I expect the future won't be AI art vs human art but rather a hybrid as art tools incorporate the technique and artists won't think it is any less art than using other digital tools.

>>jhbadg+hD
the issue at hand has nothing to do with gatekeeping, elitism or any kind of psued debate about what constitutes real art.

people are mad because job & portfolio sites are being flooded with aishit which is making them unusable for both artists and clients .

people are mad because their copyright is being scraped and resold for profit by third parties without their consent.

whether ai is the future is an utterly meaningless distraction until these concerns are addressed. as an aside, ai evangelists telling working professionals that they 'simply don't get' their field of expertise has been an incredibly poor tact for generating goodwill towards this technology or the operations attempting to extract massive profit from it's implementation.