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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9089125" data-attributes="member: 5948">I think a lot of the outrage about the impact of tech on artistic fields is that people like doing art.&nbsp; Being able to write (or draw, or game design, or whatever) for a living is a dream for many.&nbsp; But it's never been well-paid in the first place, and now AI tools are making it even harder to earn a living in a job that people want to do.&nbsp; I mean, my Twitter feed this morning is full of authors complaining that jerks are publishing AI-generated shlock under their names, cashing in on their reputations, and Amazon is refusing to remove it.&nbsp; If a job that you do for a living rather than out of love gets automated, then sure, there's financial stress involved for many in the field, but you don't get as much anger in the broader community because there isn't a huge number of people who've been harbouring life-long dreams of working in a lab developing film photos.One of the big promises of tech is that it'd do the drudgery and repetitive, boring, soulcrushing scutwork so that people would have more time to devote to pastimes they enjoy - like art.&nbsp; But now people are seeing tech taking over the art jobs, the writing jobs instead.&nbsp;&nbsp; And these aren't even jobs that were well-paid in the first place!&nbsp; And you don't have to venture too far in the wilds of the internet before you find a bunch of tech-evangelists saying that artists should just quit now and become apprentice plumbers instead.&nbsp; Yeah, cos that's EVERYONE'S career dream, spending your life fixing toilets while a computer does the art.&nbsp; That's why it feels so dystopian and makes people angry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9089125, member: 5948"] I think a lot of the outrage about the impact of tech on artistic fields is that people[I] like doing art[/I]. Being able to write (or draw, or game design, or whatever) for a living is a dream for many. But it's never been well-paid in the first place, and now AI tools are making it even harder to earn a living in a job that people [I]want to do[/I]. I mean, my Twitter feed this morning is full of authors complaining that jerks are publishing AI-generated shlock under their names, cashing in on their reputations, and Amazon is refusing to remove it. If a job that you do for a living rather than out of love gets automated, then sure, there's financial stress involved for many in the field, but you don't get as much anger in the broader community because there isn't a huge number of people who've been harbouring life-long dreams of working in a lab developing film photos. One of the big promises of tech is that it'd do the drudgery and repetitive, boring, soulcrushing scutwork so that people would have more time to devote to pastimes they enjoy - like art. But now people are seeing tech taking over the art jobs, the writing jobs instead. And these aren't even jobs that were well-paid in the first place! And you don't have to venture too far in the wilds of the internet before you find a bunch of tech-evangelists saying that artists should just quit now and become apprentice plumbers instead. Yeah, cos that's EVERYONE'S career dream, spending your life fixing toilets while a computer does the art. That's why it feels so dystopian and makes people angry. [/QUOTE]

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