Nobody can stop the march of progress. Being “vegan” with AI is just setting yourself up for failure in the (probably near) future.

If you’re a professional artist today, you need to lean into this and adapt somehow. Current AI is pretty limited, but that’s not going to last.

I wish I had an answer for the “how to adapt” question, but I don’t. All I know is that this isn’t the first time people have tried to futilely resist a technological revolution.

I do think though that copyright law needs to be updated to deal with this AI stuff. Copyright was created to protect creative works, since that is a very important thing to protect both for the economy and culture. I just hope that the people and companies creating these AI are on the right side of that fight.

I doubt it though.