>>153705
>I think if someone cares so little about an artist and their work to not pay them then that artist is better off not being paid by that person.
I think the artist in question would probably rather have the work and the money lol.


personally, I think art created to be a tool or commodity (corporate art, commissioned art, art that serves a purpose like as public signage or a software's UI) isn't really all the special, and it shouldn't be treated as any different than any other tool, like the spoon you eat your food with. after all, it serves a purpose, and as long as it serves that purpose well, then who cares how it was made? I don't care whether my spoons come from a workbench or a factory; I can use it to eat all the same. I feel the exact same when jerking off to porn or navigating a UI using the icons or looking at a company's logo: the quality is all that matters, and not the source. so with all that being said, if AI advances to the point that it can create any type of visual media in any way, then I say: cool! it's not replacing anything sacred. I doubt any of you guys feel TOO sorry for all of those artisan spoonmakers that got replaced by factories a couple centuries ago, and I doubt the people in the year 2225 will feel any different about these kinds of artists who might get replaced today.

now, art as expression? that's something different. art that is born out of passion and a desire to convey one's own heart to others is irreplaceable: no one who is seeking out that kind of art will ever be satisfied with AI, and AI can never replicate it to begin with (having no thoughts or feelings or self to express). so that kind of art is perfectly safe from being automated! the problem? very few people can make a career off of this type of art, because it requires other people to give a damn about you and become willing to pay top dollar for YOUR self-expression, or for the novelty of hiring a human artist, or because they're trying to launder money through you. good luck with that. and if you acknowledge all that and decide that you're gonna make art without concern for the money, then I think that you're awesome and worthy of respect (if not money).

so in the end I'm not super worried that AI is gonna replace tons of artists. it IS probably gonna happen, but if it does, it's not much different from any other world-changing tech replacing hundreds of thousands of other jobs (plus I can say this because I don't have a job as an artist lol!). and likely we will all get to benefit from generating nearly-free, nearly-endless, nearly-perfectly-tailored fetish porn without having to deal with another human being. ヽ(´∇`)ノ
pic related is by an artist I like who uses AI in his work (https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/412520). if more artists start using AI to improve their speed to get ahead of the curve, then I wouldn't really mind that outcome either. maybe diehard art enthusiasts disagree, but I'm not really one of them. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌
one thing I can definitely agree on though is that we'll need to find a way to filter out the low-quality stuff from the internet, because we're gonna get flooded with it no matter what happens. it's bad now but will get worse. (;ﾟ∀ﾟ)