[thriftwy]

You cannot in good conscience be wishing to do menial tasks for a living, that AI can do for you and instead of you.

That's how doing manual search and replace instead of search/replace in editor or computing stuff in spreadsheet by hand instead of using formulas.

If you think AI's output is suboptimal, right. Maybe find a way to use/train AI better to produce good enough output. But simply wishing to out-robot a robot is pointless.

[davisoneee]

I think the parent's point is the exact opposite of what you have argued against. The author is saying they are afraid 'robots' will come for the fun stuff, rather than only being a tool for the menial labour.

Think of the recent generative AI artwork...rather than drawing, and creating, (some/most?) artists fear just being prompt-carvers. The fun of the art has been replaced with menial labour of crafting prompts.

[AlexandrB]

I wonder how "artsy" kids growing up today feel. Getting good at visual arts takes a lot of time and practice and it must be very discouraging when your best output is easily beaten by a guy typing "some flowers in a vase in the style of Van Gogh" into Dall-E.

[flandish]

As an actual meatspace maker of oil paintings - AI excites me.

Someone can make a print generated by AI - and it will be beautiful I am sure.

So when someone wants a physical panting with impasto texture and painterly strokes… the “real” painters will for sure still make bank.

I mean - not me: I have only panted for 8 years and still “suck” - but I love it.

But Thomas McKnight will still paint his beautiful scenes and people will still buy them for what they are: art.

AI art is art. Meatspace art is art. Heck: I code for money. CODE is art. Software is art.

[thriftwy]

You can't expect to be paid for fun stuff if it's done by robots better, until you are looking for artisanal craft career.

Artsy types doing art using basic tools such as brushes will be the same as handicrafted assembly in programming. Rarely needed and not much people are hired to do so.

[Herval_freire]

Fearful of becoming a prompt carver? Let's be real, that is the least of their fears.

Fearful that a prompt carver can replace 10 artists is the more realistic fear here. That is the essential trajectory being plotted out by this technology and the trajectory described by the article.