[dleslie]

> I think this technology will allow more people, not less, to make money as a living (so, professionally) in a visual arts related industry. > ... > Whenever something becomes cheaper (in this case, labor for art), its consumption increases.

But not its price, and definitely not the compensation for the labour to produce it.

Making a living as a mediocre-to-good artist is already incredibly difficult; increasing the supply of poor-to-good artists through AI-assistance isn't going to make it any easier.

> The analogy would be something like a word processor reducing the number of secretaries needed in the workforce, but increasing the number of office workers.

Only if the word processor wrote documents without the assistance of a typist, or an author.