• nednobbins@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’d love to see some data on the people who believe that AI fundamentally can’t do art and the people who believe that AI is an existential threat to artists.

    Anecdotally, there seems to be a large overlap between the adherents of what seem to be mutually exclusive positions and I wish I understood that better.

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      8 months ago

      People used to pay lots of money to digital artists for various tasks. Now generative models like stable diffusion can do many of those things, just as graphic design. This is resulting in people paying less to artists.

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        8 months ago

        I get that and there are a lot of jobs that people used to pay for and no longer do.

        The entire horse industry has mostly collapsed. I couldn’t get a job as scribe. With any luck, all the industries around fossil fuel will go away. We’re going to pay less to most people in those industries too.

      • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Well yes, since the economy is in shambles, us normal people will try to spend as little money as possible to make sure we are safe