Raw LLM Responses

Four comments: 1. One of the arguments seems to be: "If AI puts 135,000 cancer biologists out of work by using my art/writing, that's fine. But it's unacceptable if it puts any creatives out of work." (Though really the people that are losing their jobs are software engineers and technical writers, not cancer biologists _or_ creatives.) 2. By Brandon's definition, a photographer is not an artist. They, like an AI prompter, just give a set of instructions (angle, lighting, subject, depth of field, shutter speed, etc.) to a machine and then the machine creates the image. Pixar animators are also not artists. They take material from a concept artist, feed it into a computer with a set of instructions (~a prompt), and let the computer create the motion picture. Sure, if the photographer or animator is unhappy with the machine's output, they can revise it until they get a product that satisfies their artistic vision… …but so can an AI prompter. 3. Like Brandon said, one of the things that AI has done is uncouple creativity from skill. It used to be that if you had a great idea, but no skill for writing or drawing, you left the idea unproduced, produced it poorly, invested the time to get the skill (not something everyone has the inclination to do), or had to pay someone who did have skill to realize your great idea. Now you can have a great idea and have the AI supply the skill. So for people who want to dabble, AI is great. It gets them from idea to image/story more quickly. But, since they're dabblers, they don't have grand plans for that image/story anyway. For someone who is serious about the craft, on the other hand, AI isn't going to be able to provide them with much. AI creations are microwave dinners; human creations are home-cooked meals made from scratch. Home-cooked meals are better, but now that microwave dinners exist, many of us will turn to them at least sometimes and some of us will turn to them a lot. 4. Perhaps my favorite argument for why AI is a problem is this: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." —Joanna Maciejewska (https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238?lang=en)