[pythonaut_16]

Do you find it soulless when painters don’t mix their own paints or weave and stretch their own canvases?

Is it soulless when a sculptor doesn’t source their own clay and marble directly from the earth?

Or when a musician uses an instrument made by someone else, or a composer uses digital sounds recorded by someone else?

There are many different forms of artistic expression and many rely on relatively mechanical and “soulless” work being done for us by someone or something else.

Tools like this can open up new and creative world building options to people who previously didn’t have access to 3D models. It increases the opportunities for creative expression rather than diminishing them.

[timmattison]

Agree with this on many levels. Some people idolize movie directors but in the most simplistic view everyone else is doing the “real work”.

Not everyone needs to do everything. And if someone’s amazing idea can get out of their head and onto paper/film/video or into a game I’m all for it.

There will be a lot of AI shovelware junk. But it doesn’t all have to be that way. Now more people compete on larger landscape of ideas.