Just to be clear, I think art made with AI also can have value because it's a tool after all. My concern is, it breaks the business for the people that feeds on and that's not OK.
Why not? This is a website that's filled with programmers, almost all of our wealth is built on the skulls of jobs that once existed, and those programs were built without the consent of the people whose jobs were automated away, often through observing and rewriting the processes they used to do.
The standard, this has been going on for decades, the only reason it's getting backlash is because this is a group of people who never expected to have this happen to them.
continuing to transform things which in part centered around exploration, discovery and experimentation into something cold and kind of dumb
like we will make some interesting things but it's the general trend of modern society that upsets people everything just getting easier/worse faster
I think the pushback is around status and elitism, and that people with certain backgrounds are societally expected to be not making art.
Almost everything computers do was once done by a person, and the people who did those jobs laid the framework for which the processes were automated through.
This has happened dozens of times. My entire job is writing software that was written in the 80s, which replaced customer service reps who are needed in the '70s, and the computer does what they used to do. It took what they invented, their processes, and made the computer do it.
This is what automation is. It's always built on top of, and replaced, human beings who used to do those jobs.