But people said the same thing about photography and painting 150 years ago!
This is entirely different from that. Landscaping had aesthetic value after photography because people were able to embellish and stylize landscapes in ways they didn't actually exist in real life. There is no way to "escape" from AI into more stylization. All it takes is enough of those new stylized images and it'll be able to replicate it. This is different from photography because photography can't learn.
But people want human expression!
Yes, they do, but they'll probably only realize this after a couple decades of art [almost] completely uninspired by the human condition and depression and anxiety skyrockets. In the short term, people will only care that they can type into a field and get what they want without any significant investment. Good luck finding an art job that isn't just making prompts in that economy (And if you say that making prompts is the same as being a painter or illustrator, yes it is art but no it isn't the same and fuck you).
I rest my case, art automation is cool but under capitalism it'll only be used to devalue artists further, and drive them deeper into poverty. It would be a great tool in a society capable of regulating itself but WE DON'T LIVE IN THAT SOCIETY AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO POINT THAT OUT.
STOP LISTENING TO :melon-musk: :debatebro-l: AND SUPPORT YOUR ARTIST COMRADES NOW
Now that I got your attention with my inflammatory statements, please commission your artist comrades and support them in their struggle to exist in what is already a very punishing world to live in. I promise to give any of you that do big hugs, I love you all, and bye.
This is the ACTUAL "Great Replacement". AI rendering large groups of people useless, and if you are unlucky enough to be one of those: sucks to be you! Have fun starving to death, now that even a bag of rice is for rich people only!"
I used to be one of those "Idiocracy is a documentary" shitlibs but then I realized that I am one of "the rubes" corporate overlords want to replace. They think I am taking up space for them to live IRL as if it's a video game.
This is eugenics by austerity, and anyone who questions the economic order in the "wrong" way is mocked as a rube who simply can't handle that they are useless unlike the geniuses that are Silicon Valley CEOs that probably inherited their money anyway. Sure, you are allowed to say "I will not eat the bugs/live in the pod" as long as you are blaming the Jews and not the actual people listed in the Panama papers.
Fascists play fast and loose with ideology. They will embrace nihilism under the guise of rationality when pressed on this, claiming "who cares? No one owes anyone anything! It's my money, my planet, and therefore my rules! Stop trying to steal from me, moocher!" However, if a minority does too well for themselves, or someone acts in a way that offends their puritan beliefs, they will claim that they are owed comfort, owed treats "I will not live in the pod or eat the bugs (but women and the brown people should!)". They will be in for a shock when some of them never get the easy mode they were promised, and instead realize that they claimed to be okay with being a slave as long as they were a house slave that got to look down on the field slaves.
TL;DR: I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! I HATE THE ANTICHRIST!
lol none of them will ever realize this
but yea it's just climbing tiers of unemployment from factory workers>artists>retail>builders>coders until eventually the entire population is either dead or in prison except for the owners