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> Kudos for the project, of course, but it just saddens me a bit more. Nothing is sacred anymore.

Why does this sadden you?

I'm quite happy everything is being done by AI, time will be freed for other things that are more important.

Manual font making will not go away though and now anyone can make their own fonts for free.

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You don't know that the time will be freed for other things that are more important. We don't know for sure how this is all going to work out at all.

And people who make fonts, create art, and write prose generally do these things because they like doing them, not because they're forced to. These technologies aren't automating drudgery, they're automating things that give people's lives meaning. What's the endgame here exactly?

Time will be freed, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion has collectively saved countless people billions of hours of time and this will do the same.

The big font makers no longer have a hold on extremely pricey fonts that are inaccessible, the general endgame is most software is going free and open source thanks to AI, and that is a good thing.

Creatives will have their hopes and dreams stripped away so that artless and tasteless software engineers can type words into a box and instantly get exactly what they want, with no surprises, no feelings, and no economic upsides for anyone else. A beautiful future indeed.

Won't the creatives be able to type the software specification into a box, and add functionality to their endeavor without needing programmers? I'm not sure that the process and the paycheck are more important than the final artifact.

Why would we need people to have endeavors? That sounds like automatable drudgery.

Won't the AIs be able to infer what would best maximize engagement for their owners and type the specifications necessary to create whatever the entity running them would want their users to consume?

Why would we need people? Seems like a pointless bottleneck in the pursuit of efficiency.

Designing cereal boxes is not authentic human experssion.

You must not know any designers. Pretty much everyone I know would consider that to be pretty fun – this is exactly the kind of thing artistic kids say they want to do when they grow up. And most of us would rather get paid to design cereal boxes than to do many other things, and almost everyone would rather do it than to not get paid at all.

Time for what?

>What's the endgame here exactly?

All of us paying a set of subscriptions to the FAANGs, for literally every aspect of our lives.

With what money once everyone is out of a job?

Genuine question: What do you think is more important that won't eventually be done with AI?

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