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> we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks

This isn’t true. Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creative more accessible. AI also helps with tons of menial tasks like code syntax

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> Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creative more accessible.

Proponents of these tools can keep saying this, but it doesn’t make it true.

Almost nothing these tools can do really helps the creation of art.

It absolutely is. I see plenty of AI art used to illustrate websites that would previously have used stock imagery for which someone got paid, even if only a small amount. Even in contexts where it is used as a free gift (ie adding AI art to social media posts that would have just been text before), it has the function of crowding out human made art by its very proliferation. It's like Greshams law for media files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

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