Oh the Ai art generator has no "soul" and it's soy and reddit? This precious art form (illustrating things that other people pay you to, a medium dominated almost entirely by furries, porn, and furry porn) is being destroyed by the evil AI? I'm sorry that the democratization of art creation is so upsetting to you. I've brought dozens of ideas to life by typing words into a prompt and I didn't have to pay someone $300 to do so.
how dare people who's income is destroyed by tech bro dipshits and their toys be angry
yeah, we should be trying to figure out how to put that anger into making people more Based. not entirely sure if pissed off concept artists will wield much power compared to the industrial proletariat or the disaffected peasantry but it can't hurt
This technique for approximating generating and editing images was invented by two PhD students and then released for free. It just turns out that when you plug words into it, it can make arbitrary images.
So what you really mean is people whose income was damaged by scientific progress. If your argument is that scientific progress is bad and we should get mad at it because some people will not be able to make a living out of it, that's okay, but then you can't really be a leftist without endlessly contradicting yourself. That low-creativity, mostly technical commission work is being made obsolete is just a fact of life at this point. If you think highly-creative art is going to be made obsolete, then you must be saying that AI is on the way to true creativity, which if it's actually the case then the world is about to change fundamentally (but I don't think that's happening anytime soon). Either that, or "prompt engineering" is approximately as creative as art itself, and thus this is merely a technique to reduce the mechanical requirements of art and make it more accessible.