Also I am not worried that there won’t be demand for artists in the near term. As the art quantum leaps in terms of productivity and quality, figuring out how to generate the best stuff, and figuring out what would be best to generate, are going to be valued human skills, that existing artists should have a big leg up on.
Most of the economic pressure driving up artists hourly wages is the years of training required to mechanically generate art, not an artistic sensibility. They may have a slightly better shot at landing an AI art generation job than the average person, but they have still lost tons of market value as creators, probably most of it, and I expect if the job exists it will be filled mostly by other people.
I have similar but not as completely hopeless comments for computer programmers.
Most of the economic pressure driving up artists hourly wages is the years of training required to mechanically generate art, not an artistic sensibility. They may have a slightly better shot at landing an AI art generation job than the average person, but they have still lost tons of market value as creators, probably most of it, and I expect if the job exists it will be filled mostly by other people.
I have similar but not as completely hopeless comments for computer programmers.