@Moon@inertia people don't understand that they don't actually have any power. They're just gay and retarded and world leaders also like things to be gay and retarded because it takes negotiation power away from the workers.
@Type_Other he's probably "right" for entirely the wrong reasons. Art as a profession is not going away and I really don't think that unassisted AI art is viable once the mystique wears away. It really does make a lot of terrible looking mistakes and looks all the same.
What's probably going to happen is some subset of artists are just going to adapt to AI tooling in whatever adobe suites they're using and they'll just start to work really fast with a higher degree of customization than prompting can manage.
Programmers are already going through this same change. They're just not freaking the fuck out about it because higher neural plasticity I guess.
@RustyCrab There's this shitty youtube artist who keeps parroting that A.I.'s death is just around the corner. Poke fun at the idea in any way and he'll just delete it.
"People are only using it for a quick dopamine hit. It'll wear off. Nobody's replacing us" says increasingly-nervous nerd whose tablet has suddenly become a very expensive doorstop.
@RustyCrab@Type_Other I spent the last several days learning how to generate interesting rpg-stye NPCs using a local LLM. I am still working my ass off, I am just orders of magnitude more productive.