This guy hit the nail on the head in regards to this whole AI art kerfuffle.
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You are incredibly naive.
Not if there is an industry wide ripple affect destroying its commercial viability, the incentive to get good is then diminished ("talent" doesn't not make up for consistency and study), people who previously aspired have their lives swallowed and any residual desire for personal progress bogged down to a halt. Independently, good luck competing with algorithmically perfected turnout - some people out there already don't even get seen despite being pretty damn good, especially if they're a bit slower to post or live in an inopportune timezone. Becoming a hobbyist is an option, but in relation to the ecosystem that I previously described that is not preferable for a higher societal reverence for aesthetic and frankly, I don't like the idea of my profession being ripped away from me, and really the whole art world being torn asunder because some commie trannies decided to just take it.
I'm no handshake, I am a few people - namely and recently u/greenmfkerfrmtenesee/, however I don't remember my password so fuck that.
Handshake.
Countless jobs throughout history have been obsoleted by technology. The sour grapes from the artists are just particularly sweet because they never thought it would happen to them.
As far as your personal stake in the profession is concerned, some people love journalism, too. They should still have enough self-awareness to understand why the profession is now widely despised. The radical leftist art industry is similarly obnoxious. You know why.
The relentless gatekeeping that has been done on a higher level is unforgivable, it kept me blackballed for years. I have more reasons to hate the industry than anyone, but I can't condemn an artist for wanting to protect themselves. Not all of them are radical leftists either.
No one could have anticipated it, however I don't think this renders the artist obsolete in a very constructive way or in a way that betters our condition as the politically dissident right, it just further ingratiates culture to an even more malignant set of gatekeepers.