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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
This has been going on for 250 years, and humanity still hasn't quite grasped it.

The steady progress of the Industrial Revolution that has made the average person unimaginably richer and healthier several times over, looks in the moment just like this:

"Oh no, entire industries of people are being made obsolete, and will have to beg on the streets now".

And yet, as jobs and industries are automated away, we keep getting richer and healthier.

>>Burnin+Qk
Collectively, sure. How did that go for the people who's livelihoods got replaced though? I've had family members be forced to change careers from white-collar work after being laid off and unable to find engineering jobs due to people decades younger taking them all nearby. I saw firsthand the unbelievable amount of stress and depression they went through, and it took them years to accept that their previous life and career were gone.

"It'll massively suck for you, but don't worry, it'll be better for everyone else" is little comfort for most of us

>>thedor+tm1
Well, most of us are in the benefiting group so I'd definitely take that gamble.

But you're off course right that the benefits are unevenly distributed, and for some it truly does suck.