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Scott Swigart's avatar

I wonder if it has something to do with how art and writing are monetized. A lot of writing doesn't have to sell itself per piece the way art does. People write for their job (and make a salary) or write as a freelancer where they have pretty decent confidence that their pieces will get bought by publications.

Artists, on the other hand, put a tens or hundreds of hours into creating a piece on spec and hoping it will sell. Even if it's stock art, there's no guarantee that there will be any return at all on a specific piece of work.

I wonder if corporate graphic artists feel differently about generative AI than independent artists? i.e. more likely to view it as a productivity enhancer.

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Phil Tanny's avatar

Alberto, you write, "in most cases it reflects a deeper conflict with the engine that moves the world forward".

As you've seen, (in perhaps too many of my comments) I consider it debatable that AI, or even the knowledge explosion as a whole, is moving the world forward. As simple example, giving a ten year old the keys to the car would not be moving the family forward. The ten year old might experience it as forward movement, but then, he's ten.

You write, "I don’t feel threatened by AI."

If you don't feel threatened by the current versions of AI like ChatGPT, ok, I can get that. If you don't feel threatened as a writer by AI as a technology, perhaps we need to hear more from you on that? To me, it seems that AI in it's current state, and where AI is likely to go, are two very different things.

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