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Comment by nmfisher | Hacker News Reader

This is already happening - SD unleashed an absolute torrent of content that is technically amazing but artistically boring.

Hopefully it all eventually settles down and becomes just another tool for skilled artists, rather than thousands of nerds churning out the visual equivalent of elevator muzak.

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To be fair, visual muzak from nerds has at least one redeeming quality: it's fun popcorn-munching while watching artists go on tirades about how it violates their consent.

The real fun starts when the AI comes for those same nerds' coding jobs. Want to see someone's opinions go through a 180 turn?

The consequences of anyone being able to create any software they want cheaply are so enormous that I think coder employment would be among the least of our concerns.

It's called no-code(this time around at least). Quickly turn out a decent-looking app, then hitting a brick wall when the least amount of unexpected requirement turns up. Scares you the first time you see it, but both devs and artists will be fine long term.

The whole point of programming is automation. Having a tool that would make programming much more efficient is not a failure condition for programmers.

Right up until programming becomes so accessible that it isn't even a job any more, it's just something that everyone does.

Wasn't that the entire goal of the "computers to empower the masses" movement in the first place?

It already has, and as with art AI, I've seen worse from beginners and it's got certain failure modes and there are copyright/moral rights[0] issues and it is still obviously useful.

[0] I saw this in a few of my UK job contracts in the context of signing away that right, and it seems to be "the right to be identified as the author of a work", but IANAL.

I'm ready to change careers from programmer to AI code prompt writer.

Depending on what the compiler and microcode are doing, maybe you already are!

Thomas Kinkade certainly made a living off the visual equivalent of muzak.

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