yes, mutually assured destruction. i simply wish for artists who create bad aesthetics to stop being culturally worshipped or able to make a living. they will because they're not very talented, and companies will use ai for more basic methods, which will inevitably drive up the skill needed to survive in the artist business. to put it in economic terms, demand for artists who can create art with very simple methods and be paid for it is going down because the supply of beings that are able to do these methods just went up. the thing i find all ironic about the whole thing is that there was this outcry online from artists who said, "but ai will destroy our businesses, we make art and we won't be able to make money anymore, what about our craft?" if their craft were anything worthwhile, i would have more sympathy. but i don't have sympathy for bad art, for the hordes of social leeches who wax poetic about how great they are when their art is, to put it plainly, impish and regressive. i hope they get replaced, and they will. if ai wasn't a threat to them, they would not be complaining. i haven't seen anyone complaining that made genuinely good art. pic related isn't complaining. he made that in 2020.
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