Raw LLM Responses

AI art is perfectly fine. It will weed out the weakest artists and the better ones will keep going. This is always how new technologies go and this is always the reaction we get. When I was a kid, an elderly neighbors told us they used to employ 200 people to dig drain trench and now the same drain trenches are made by 4 guys in less time. Do you think the 196 who lost their job were happy? More relevant to myself as a clock maker, what do you think happened to clock makers when Japan came out with quartz and digital watches that were exceptionally cheap and disposable? It was a literal apocalypse for clock makers, the vast majority went bankrupt, but the most skilled ones transitioned to high quality products that were not much more focused on being a prestige or fashion item. There is no more medium or even low quality mechanical watches manufactured and maintained in the West, all those we got are Chinese and even China does not make that many of them (most are also replicas of European watches). Stop stalling progress, you will not win. Just move forward and do your best to stay relevant. Yes, most artists will be forced to do something else and that is not a problem.