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I feel that the illustrations are still at least somewhat in the uncanny valley. I don't think that the quality is already there. What you see is only a subset. Many creations are really bad, creepy and unbalanced. I think this will change up to the extent that the majority of people won't care.
What you see is only a subset. Many creations are really bad, creepy and unbalanced. This is also true for human artists.
We'll want to be a little careful with how society responds to this. Basquiat put it well ( http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html ) Excerpt follows: "We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic market with it at an incredibly low price; for the moment he appears, our sales cease, al…
Just to avoid confusion, the page & excerpts you cite are from an 1800's French economist named Bastiat, not from the legendary 1980's neo-expressionist painter Basquiat. Since this thread is about art, I figured people might read the name Basquiat in your comment and think that he wrote the quote you cite, which would in my mind give it greater relevance to this discussion than it has.
As a hobbyist artist my main concern is less the automation will replace artist as much as that 99% of that automation will come from the 3 companies with deep enough coffers to train and run the most complex AIs, and 2 of those companies will be FAANGs. Ultimately it will be a future where instead of paying an artist X amount for decent art with the artist getting a ~7% margin, it will be paying 90% of X to a monopo…