[tsupiroti]

> You can be a great studio painter, but not be able to "talk to" Stable Diffusion at all. Likewise, you may have zero artistic ability in the traditional sense, but be a prodigy at getting the computer to spit out what you are imagining, or something even better than that.

I'm not so sure about this. Both require visualizing something upfront, evaluating the resulting images and understanding what needs to change.

It's a bit like digital and analog photography. Digital makes the skills of getting a good exposure less relevant and allows post-processing. But a photographer still needs to know what makes a good photo.

This doesn't invalidate the original point though. Making a living as a photographer became harder with the advent of digital photography.