CleverNickName
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~sigh I'm trying really hard to stay on topic here, but you struck a chord.I think it's relevant, but sure.
Technology disrupts labor, even artistic labor, and always has. It's a thing that is true.
We absolutely need guard rails for generative AI, for a lot of reasons: social, political, economic and yes artistic. But that doesn't mean it isn't a) inevitable and b) in the end a tool that produces a net good.
My area of expertise is water engineering, and I can state for a fact that not every new technology "produces a net good." We have invented things presumably for the betterment of humanity that that we truly wish we could now un-invent. (In my specific industry, DDT and PFAS come to mind.) It's just something to keep in mind when you think about the inevitability of new technology.
Anyway. Sorry I got off topic.