[dtn]

> The motivation for creating art isn't purely financial.

Yeah, but getting financial compensation can certainly help. The opportunity cost of putting bread on the table means that the output of most professional artists today would drop significantly, if they needed to pick up another profession (especially full time).

> Plus, we humans all built our skills and works on the shoulder of giants. Artworks and cultural artifacts are never created in a vacuum. Maybe it's time to acknowledge that.

You're acting as if artists don't already acknowledge and understand this. https://www.muddycolors.com/2017/12/some-thoughts-on-master-....

[fennecfoxy]

Financial compensation does help. But certain industries become marginalised or relegated to history given enough time. People then keep them alive because they choose to.

Where are the tears for horseback couriers? Or blacksmiths? Or thatchers?

[dtn]

That just proves the original poster's point, that the potential for future original work will be erased.

How often are we seeing innovative advancements in the field of horseback couriers, blacksmithing and thatching nowadays?

[fennecfoxy]

I guess you didn't get my point which was: those industries died apart from specialists keeping them alive today and that's just the nature of the world.

The same thing will happen to human generated creative content whereby it becomes something that people are involved in because they want to be, not because it's a necessity/it's the only way to do it.

Yes the potential for future art work done by a human today will be erased in the future when it can be performed by a machine, but that has always happened & yet somehow it's surprising to people.

An artist being indignant towards machine generated art yet using mass produced tools, eating food farmed by mechanised equipment, wearing clothing woven by automatic looms, taking a digital photo themselves instead of hiring a portrait painter, owning a car instead of a horse that supports many sub-industries, sending emails instead of letters is just hypocrisy.

Technology has always brought us forward and these new AI powered tools will assist us as the tools we produce have always assisted our species. And as always those who refuse to change will eventually be left behind.

And yes, if this was happening to the industry I'm in I would currently be going through the 5 stages of grief about it, too. But then I'd just have to change up what I'm doing to reflect the changing times. As she herself said, it still doesn't capture what she puts into her art & so there is still that avenue to pursue.