ArtStation artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork

How fucking pointless is this?

AI became too good in the blink of an eye, and now the question is not if it'll take your job, it's how long it'll be before it does, and what you'll do about it.

I don't like this reality, but protesting misses the point. In not very long of a time, we're gonna be in a world where artificial and human made content are indistinguishable and we had all better buckle the fuck up and plan for that right now. Because whatever threat AI poses to art is the absolute least of the concerns we'll have if the oligarchy figures out how to use it to their benefit.

So if AI can take your job, fucking fine. Let it have it. That much is inevitable. The question is, what will we be left with after that happens? A post scarcity utopia? Or a hypercapitalist dystopia?

We are looking down the barrel of a future that could be amazing as our wildest dreams....or as awful as our most horrible nightmares. But I don't fear AI one bit. It's the greedy humans who'll abuse it that scare me.

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