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by ChainOfFools 1042 days ago
I think the problem that you're getting at is that people need a steady stream of income in order to have the time to innovate beyond what AI is capable of regenerating, but that steady stream of income has always been predominantly comprised of exactly the sort of derivative work that AI is going to completely undermine the market for.

Without the ability to do the usual stream of generic graphic design arrangements, or advertising Jingles that pays the bills, the aspiring genre-breaking creative has little or no means to develop an excursive masterpiece that the next generation of AI will slavishly absorb and regurgitate.