[echelon]

> AI will eventually basically make artists obsolete just like every other job.

No it won't. We've hit a wall and the low hanging fruit are gone. OpenAI hit a wall and is searching for enterprise customers to maintain their valuation, and Google and Facebook are calling them out on it. Meanwhile, text is entirely inadequate for manipulating visual things effectively.

AI will supercharge artists that embrace it. Text-to-art is not good enough and real artists will be working with layers, node editors, and in 3D/video modalities.

[ilaksh]

There have always been downturns in the velocity of increase in capability of technology like a series of s-curves, but at a zoomed out level it's still an exponential that continues as we constantly innovate.

The trajectory we are on is for AI to be able to do most intellectual jobs in less than ten years and most physical jobs in less than 20. That is speculation but it is based on many decades of increasing performance and capabilities.

Text does have limitations but AI tools and models are not limited to text to image and new models and systems will be created.

I agree that AI will help artists in the short term. But we should anticipate that humans will eventually just be a bottleneck in the creative process.