[Macha]

> I wonder if some “actual" artists (as in, those people who create the kind of art most people would recognize) have gone through a similar arc of realizing the emptiness of creating with AI tools.

My impression is that artists are even more hostile than the most AI-skeptic of software engineers. In large part, this is likely because the economic argument doesn't hold much sway. For the large majority of artists, it's hard for them to make money with art as is, the bottleneck is not the volume of art they can produce. There's a much clearer path to turning "more code" into "more money", even if it's still not direct.

[GianFabien]

The way I see it: Painters (as in artists) paint with brushes not spray guns.

The industrial scale painting robots work well for painting cars coming off an assembly line, but not for landscapes nor portraits.

Automation (not just AI, but in general) works well for highly structured, repetitious work but not for creative expression.

[jaredcwhite]

Perhaps that's why I as a software developer am fully genAI-skeptic…I've always considered myself a multidisciplinary artist and the skill I have in writing code is simply one of the many possible avenues I use to express myself. (Alas, it's the one which produces the most income by far, but that's another conversation!)