[Auracle]

This is HN. How many computer programs have been created based on existing professional workflows that vastly reduced the amount of people needed to do that job?

An absolute ton. Now that it’s happening to art instead of accountants everyone should care?

[livefox]

Absolutely, because art isnt the same as crunching numbers. No accountant created the math they are crunching and then had a 3rd party come in and vacuum up their work and spit out a computer that creates a facimile of their work to replace them.

[Auracle]

You pretty much just described Excel as a whole, not to mention any kind of formula/macro/whatever that gets entered into it. Yeah, they didn't come up with those formulas entirely on their own - they adapted what they learned to their current needs.

Artists also didn't come up with their art style entirely on their own, they adapted what they learned to their current needs.