• teichflamme@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    It’s not. People are just afraid of being replaced, especially when they weren’t that original or creative in the first place.

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      6 months ago

      AI image creation tools are apparently both artistically empty, incapable of creating anything artistically interesting, and also a existential threat to visual artists. Hmm, wonder what this says about the artistic merits of the work of furry porn commission artist #7302.

      Retail workers can be replaced with self checkout, translators can be replaced with machine translation, auto workers can be replaced with robotic arms, specialist machinists can be replaced with CNC mills. But illustrators must be where we draw the line.