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I'm both a digital artist and programmer. I never thought it would happen before, but I accept that this technology can easily replace some aspects of my professional value. But i don't let it take away from my experience and capacity to be creative, so I still think I have an advantage when leveraging these tools- and I've started to use them every day.

Rendering was only ever a small part of the visual arts process anyway. And you can still manually add pixel perfect details to these images by hand that you wouldn't know how to create an AI prompt for. And further, you can mash together AI outputs in beautifully unique and highly controlled ways to produce original compositions that still take work to reproduce.

To me, these AI's are just a tool for increased speed, like copy and paste.