Comment by rgmerk
10 days ago
For some applications.
Photography didn’t make artists obsolete.
For that matter, the car didn’t make horse riding completely obsolete either.
For artists, the question is whether generative AI is like photography or the car. My guess, at this stage, is photography.
For what it’s worth I think the proponents of generative AI are grossly overestimating the utility and economic value of meh-OK images that approximate the thing you’ve asked for.
I've seen cover art on a lot of magazines already replaced with AI images. I suspect, for the time being, that a lot of the low hanging art fruit will be destroyed by image generation. The knock on effect is less art jobs, but more artists. In the vein of your analogy, it removes the gas station attendants that fill your tank.