[hectorlorenzo]

I agree with all your points and I struggle to see how AI-generated imagery will change any of this. I honesty believe that people will still appreciate (or criticise, or ignore) your work and communities will still be formed around "traditional" artists.

As for the professional aspect of it, yes, designers, illustrators, copywriters, programmers will see their work deeply changed by this technology, to an extend that I do not understand at all. I share your worries in that front.

[mronetwo]

Well I’m just responding to the process vs final result, which I think you called inconsistent. Maybe I didn’t get what you were trying to say there though.

I also think that it actually might affect the way we value art. I’d need to spend a bit more time thinking about it but even on a surface level it seems that if we devalue something then people might not engage with it in the same way. We actually live in an age when the internet (and many other things) are destroying communities, and I do not think that online communities can feel that void. We need people around yet we push everyone away. Tech is a huge culprit in that. We need to be creative yet we build evidence we’re not that special or creative. Who knows many we actually are special and we’ll survive this.

I think there’s a lot to deconstruct here and I don’t think I’m prepared to write it down in a good way right now.