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Bierculles t1_j63hf3t wrote

This is a fate that will be a reality for any job that can be done on a PC within the next 10 years, so unless your alternative is something like plumber, it only delayes your fate and does not prevent it.

Also, artists will still be needed, no matter how good an AI is, it can't produce something good if you have no clue what "good art" even is. Or if you need something very specific from the AI, you need to be able to ask the right questions, it's like when a client who knows nothing about art tries to comission an artist, no matter how good the artist is, if the input from the client is incoherrent garbage, he will never get what he wants and this is a more fundamental problem of information, AI cannot fix this unless it can literaly look inside your head.

Competition within the field will be pretty brutal though, AI will majorly speed up the workflow of almost every artist, so a lot less artists will be needed in total unless the market scales accordingly, which i doubt will happen. AI will displace a lot of jobs but it wont completely replace them in many cases.

In short, this will be a problem you will face in your life no matter what you do, just pray our governments don't fuck it up to badly so might as well do what you want.

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ipatimo t1_j641vru wrote

It's a mistake to think that AI will not soon have a clue, what "good art" is and will not learn to create "extremely good art".

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[deleted] OP t1_j63hq4v wrote

Okay, let’s not use euphemisms here, it’s not “speeding up the workflow” of “artists”. It’s generating art as a replacement for human artists. There is no “workflow” in generating AI art. People who make manual modifications to it are a tiny fraction of people who post and use AI art and the goal is for nobody to have to do that anyway.

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Bierculles t1_j63jsq7 wrote

Well, the job of an artist is more than just creating waifus in a square canvas or landing pages for company websites. Someone needs to do all the CGI on movies or create textures and models for videogames and in many cases you want something very specific and not just a rough approximation from an AI, so you need someone who knows exactly what it needs to ask the AI to get what you want and they need to have an eye for what looks shit and what does not. Artists are the perfect people for this.

This is an issue that will be a problem in every single field unless you let AI take full controll, but that is still pretty far off and would need an AI that governs an entire industry on it's own and at that point, everyone is unemploeyd anyways.

So if you want my honest oppinion, become a plumber or bricklayer, those will be the last jobs that will be replaced. Governments need to reform how our society works at some point in the future anways, so the only question is if your job is made obsolete before or after we reform our economic system, aka before or after you get thrown on the streets and become homeless. Artists were allready in a rough spot so I would say from a purely financial standpoint, becoming an artist now is a pretty bad idea, most likely, nobody knows what the future really holds.

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Bierculles t1_j64m8g1 wrote

Yes, the only real question is when, the if is hardly contested anymore.

It all depends on the speed of progress in the AI field. What many people don't think about is that scientific progress is exponential, so it could come from very far off to on your doorstep pretty quickly. There is not a small amount of very prominent AI scientists that predict an AGI (Artificial general intelligence), an Ai that can do everything a human can do, by 2030. Only time will tell though.

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