>>200357
There's more to programming than what LLMs have to offer, especially if you're willing to learn a bit the more theoretical/mathematical foundations of computer science that were left mostly abandoned as universities turned their undergrad courses into codeslave factories around the turn of the millennium. I used to care a lot for "functional programming" languages since Haskell was my gateway drug for that sort of thing. These days I found a lot more to like in stack-based languages, modern incarnations of which (Factor) typically implement a lot of the same ideas.
Then you have what we might call "software art" which ignores in favor of just appreciating software on it's own terms. I think you used to see this a lot more with e.g. old BASIC books or the like, but mostly lives on in Esolangs these days. You've probably heard of Brainfuck, these are languages designed to be deliberately unusual and exist for their own sake. One of my favorite esolang designers puts the appeal of this stuff better than I can:
https://git.catseye.tc/The-Dossier/blob/master/article/The%20Aesthetics%20of%20Esolangs.md
I was actually puttering about with a sketch for a practical self modifying virtual machine design based on one of this guy's languages, and found that they already did something very similar back in the 60s:
https://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html
There's too many interesting design concepts that have been forgotten.

As for drawing, I've tried learning anime-style drawing lately myself, trying to faithfully copy settei and manga panels. Not to much success but enough to have a newfound appreciation of anime as a whole and dispel any lingering suspicions that deep learning models will overtake human artists. Vid related is about traditional western painting but the same is true of anime, the average weaboo is blind to the "language of lines" that comprises even the most amateurish doujin at comiket.
I have no idea how you faggots can actually fap to the blobby looking garbage that comprises most of /l/.

>>200367
>they're automating human expression
If you seriously valued human expression it'd be self-evident that it's the one thing "AI" can't even pretend to simulate by itself.
>the results summariser is awful too, it has killed so many websites & forums because it just indexes information and stops people from contributing
No, Ad-based search result poisoning did that.

>>200361
For one, starting the Y-axis at 1M of 1.5M? LOL, that's a cheap trick.
For two, "US Arts Employment"? Gimme a Double LOL Large with extra dip. Look at what and who's actually being included here.
Hollywood/Netflix Movies, TV, and Streaming. I guess you could say that's what most Americans live for LMAO. "Books" translates to cheap porn for fat women here--the proper novel industry has been dead for at least a decade already. Copywriters for shit magazines and newspapers. Raze it all to the ground and let something good grow in the ashes.
What's this chart look like for a country with a real art industry? (Japan)

*repost cuz I uploaded teh wrong vid