Raw LLM Responses

I see arguments a lot that still — in this era — dismiss art as a nothing hobby, much less any kind of lucrative or meaningful career. People who are not artists tend to picture only traditional familiar forms of art, such as oil paintings or charcoal-on-newsprint figure drawings... basically the stuff that earns the creative kid in the family that Rose Art beginner set for the holidays every year, or gets a nod from someone looking thru a gallery... while these are valid and strong visual art methods, art is EVERYWHERE. The chair you sit in, the car you drive, the speakers on your desk, plastic sports trophies and the ugly concrete state buildings downtown — everything boring and tremendous in the world has a designer, and that's a LOT of artists at work. I feel AI largely removes not only soul or passion individually from the artist, but from those who would buy their art or lend any audience to it. It must be realized and appreciated that the real world puts us all in the day-to-day situation of wanting purpose, and an artist feels no differently. A bare fraction of us get to work on the art that drives us or feeds our souls on a constant basis, and often we need to just do what we must to survive. AI doesn't just threaten to interrupt a hobby, it potentially takes jobs and livelihoods away, and no matter what you do for a living it wears at the spirit when you feel you might have lost your place. In the meantime I hope we all keep working on what we want to, as much as we can, in spite of things feeling watered down