[chucky_z]

… something more productive than art?

that’s quite a productive thing. art has tremendous value to society.

why don’t we automate the washing machine more instead of automating the artist?

[whiplash451]

Washing machines and roombas were the low hanging fruits in the real world.

Automating more in the real world is much (much) harder than grabbing the low-hanging fruits in the digital world.

[echoangle]

Well we already automated all the easy stuff (washing machines for example), and now we’re automating more stuff as we get better at it.

[bamboozled]

Because some companies stumbled on this treasure first. Need to milk immediately.