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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
While it was far from all of them, lots of the people who are decrying AI art were recently gleefully cheering the destruction of blue-collar jobs held by people with what they view as unacceptable value systems. "Learn to code" was a middle finger both to the people losing their jobs and to those who already code and don't want to see the value of their skills diluted. There's been plenty of "lack of empathy" going around lately, mostly because of ideological fault lines. Perhaps this will be a wake-up call that monsters rarely obey their masters for very long before turning on them.

>>Mounta+sv
>lots of the people who are decrying AI art were recently gleefully cheering the destruction of blue-collar job

I hear these sorts of statements a lot, and always wonder how people come to the conclusion that "people who said A were the ones who were saying B". Barring survey data, how would you know that it isn't just the case that it seems that way?

The idea that people who would tell someone else to learn to code are now luddites seems super counter-intuitive to me. Wouldn't people opposing automation now likely be the same ones opposing it in the past? Why would you assume they're the same group without data showing it?

I know a bunch of artists personally and none of them seem to oppose blue-collar work