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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 have zero empathy for “artists”. Art produced for commercial purposes is no art at all, a more apt title for such a job is “asset creator”, and these people are by no means banned from using AI generation tools to make their work easier. Already artists will generate some logo off a prompt that takes a few minutes and charge full price for it. Why cry about it?

I would argue because most AI imagery right now is made for fun and not monetary gains, so it is actually a purer form of art.