But people said the same thing about photography and painting 150 years ago!
This is entirely different from that. Landscaping had aesthetic value after photography because people were able to embellish and stylize landscapes in ways they didn't actually exist in real life. There is no way to "escape" from AI into more stylization. All it takes is enough of those new stylized images and it'll be able to replicate it. This is different from photography because photography can't learn.
But people want human expression!
Yes, they do, but they'll probably only realize this after a couple decades of art [almost] completely uninspired by the human condition and depression and anxiety skyrockets. In the short term, people will only care that they can type into a field and get what they want without any significant investment. Good luck finding an art job that isn't just making prompts in that economy (And if you say that making prompts is the same as being a painter or illustrator, yes it is art but no it isn't the same and fuck you).
I rest my case, art automation is cool but under capitalism it'll only be used to devalue artists further, and drive them deeper into poverty. It would be a great tool in a society capable of regulating itself but WE DON'T LIVE IN THAT SOCIETY AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO POINT THAT OUT.
STOP LISTENING TO :melon-musk: :debatebro-l: AND SUPPORT YOUR ARTIST COMRADES NOW
Now that I got your attention with my inflammatory statements, please commission your artist comrades and support them in their struggle to exist in what is already a very punishing world to live in. I promise to give any of you that do big hugs, I love you all, and bye.
I keep saying how this is absolutely going to destroy entry level artist positions and gig based artist work (ie small time commissions, selling stock images) but people keep saying to me 'no you're wrong' but they never offer any arguments as to how.
I lurk in a bunch of these AI image generator spaces and I'm fucking seeing in real time what people are using these generators for and it's all shit that they previously would have commissioned someone to do, like album covers, illustrations for news articles, youtube thumbnails, character concept art, etc etc.
People who say 'but it's not going to destroy reaaaaal art or artistic expression' are missing the fucking point. If new artists can't get into art fields in any way other than nepotism (at least before now it was theoretically possible) then art fields won't be getting any new blood, then existing art industries will just have the same stagnant industry insiders swirling around the toilet bowl forever until catastrophic climate change renders capeshit movies and video games and comic book presses just a burning memory
tl;dr AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA