[alaintno]

> but it devalues the entire profession

This. All the previous comments made really good statements, but, in the end, it's the value we give to art that might suffer from AI generated content, and the people who produce "real" art.

[krapp]

I'm sure textile weavers a century ago said the same thing, and the world replied that if a machine can do what you do even adequately, your profession was always overvalued.

In the end, it's an iron law of post-industrial capitalism that the market value of human effort eventually approaches zero.