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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 lack of empathy

Probably has something to do with years of artists trash talking engineers.

>>LarryM+5u1
Forgive me but I would be lucky to have artists saying anything, positive or negative, about my way of life. Being knowledgeable in something critically studied is very rewarding. You are forsaking opportunity if I dare say so.

>>meroes+972
I don't understand your response, maybe I should clarify my comment. What I'm saying is there has historically been a fair amount of animosity and mean hearted banter between engineer types and artistic types. Particularly, artists sharing and promoting negative stereotypes about engineers. Claims that engineers are antisocial, can't design interfaces for 'real people', etc. Now that the fruit of engineering labor has threatened artists, it doesn't surprise me that engineers have little sympathy for the artists.

>>LarryM+Oh2
Funny enough, engineers are threaten themselves also, no? Everyone is going to the same boat.