[Varyag]

These technologies are going to have a deleterious effect on the work available for artists, I think that much can be safely asserted. Of course there's no way of really knowing what percentage of artist work this is going to eat up, but neverytheless: When coal miners lost their jobs to automation, they were told that the advancement of technology will create new, better, safer and more fulfilling jobs for people. But what happens when the fulfilling, enjoyable jobs get automated?

We live in a system that ties productivity to human worth, that (in the US, certainly) only gives basic human needs such as food, shelter and healthcare to those that are making money for the system. What happens when larger and larger percentages of the population are forced to choose butween uninspired, miserable work and a life of poverty and desperation? What happens when the productivity is locked to those with the wealth to purchase expensive automation tools to do the work, and the wealth circulates between the people making the automation and the people using the automation, with vast swathes of the population being excluded from opportunity?

I'm excited to see this technology move forward, but I'm more excited about what societal effects this type of automation will have.

[notadev]

> But what happens when the fulfilling, enjoyable jobs get automated?

I once read an argument that said automation would advance universal basic income (UBI) and free up people for leisure and creating art. So I suppose they’ll have more time to create art.