Can someone explain to me why I shouldn’t be worried about AI replacing drawers and illustators? I got the vibe that most lefty types aren’t very concerned about it and I wish I knew why. Isn’t people seeing art as less valuable because they can just go online and click a button for it, pretty much objectively bad? Do we really want to make a society where people are discouraged from doing meditative activities like painting and sketching? Isn’t the act of illustration by itself a big portion of the self-expression inherent to the art form? Why are techbros so smug about economically crushing an entire aspect of human existence?

I’m going to make a machine to wedgie techbros at inhuman speeds.

Good

I know that automation of it is good, but there are plenty of good things that capitalists turn into bad things…

But my concern is that the average capitalism-human will not care about that emotion, and, from a material perspective, all of the people who thrive off of expressing that emotion will be in an even worse economic position than before.

Honestly, neither of those things are comforting for me and mean nothing to someone who does art as a job and relies on it to live.

“most people aren’t doing particularly unique art rn”

People shouldn’t need to do “unique” art for their self expression to be valuable. Fuck that.

What artists need right now is material support and material reasons for their job to continue to exist, not abstract notions of “human expression” or “fulfillment”.

I’m sorry I was so touchy, as an art hobbyist myself seeing computers just… conjure images has really demotivated me, because I can just see people in the future actually saying to me “why do you draw you can just use DALLE” so I’m unhealthily invested in this subject. I’m making one more post and then logging off for a bit, actually (which I know is funny on a brand new account).

i agree with this, and i’m not sure how you got the idea that i didn’t. again, sorry i misread your thing, you are right to be worried, and i totally get if my post isn’t reassuring at all because i don’t know too much about this, i just know that behind the curtain there’s a lot of fiddling going on to make this tech seem more advanced than it is.

I was paranoid because I’ve seen the take that artists just need to “adapt” and make new art styles a few times. I’m sorry, again, I’m sorry for being so confrontational.

I mean, first, AI generated art is even easier to make then pop songs are, and second, visual arts being brought to the same place as music is still enough to suck. A lot.

Third, it’s hard to tell the difference between AI generated art and human-made art, while pop music is it’s own distinct genre which is separated from other genres in both quality and intention. While AI generated art can come very close to human made art in quality, and it’s only difference in the long term is intention.

Thank you for being nice, I’m so sorry for being so rude especially on a brand new account.

This is my point basically, human art will still exist but “good enough” is enough to replace the majority of artists.