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FilthyCommieAccount t1_j1n7dr3 wrote

Reply to comment by TheDavidMichaels in The Impact of Generative AI Art on Society and Culture: Will It Replace Human Artists? by _Daneel_Olivaw

I get what you're saying but in a few years this might decimate the art community. Think of how many hand crafted furniture makers there are. They were made largely irrelevant by the industrial revolution and the production line. Sure there's a few very well paid ones making luxury goods but it's not a common profession. That's what's probably about to happen to visual artists. The vast majority of the art people consume on a daily basis from games, ads, shows etc that took teams of artists is going to get replaced by 1 or 2 art directors guiding generative AIs. I'm not saying we shouldn't automate commodity art this way but we shouldn't just pretend visual artists are going to be just fine. They aren't and they are going to need assistance.

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Automorphism31 t1_j1o8xpz wrote

Art is the expression and self-actualization of the artist and takes a wide variety of forms. Art will exist as long as people have a complex inner life and want to express it symbolically.

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FilthyCommieAccount t1_j1oznw7 wrote

Nowhere did I say that all artists will disappear. I even drew an analogy to furniture makers. What I'm saying is that commodity art is probably going to get automated in the same way as furniture making is mainly done by machines now.

Yes there will always be a place for human artists but that place won't be in commodity art. It'll be a luxury good like handmade furniture and the few that do make handmade art for a living will get paid well but emphasis on the few. The market for humans will be much smaller.

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