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01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art."
02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art."
03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'.
04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"
I thought about this for a while and I'm not convinced.
Either AI makes slop, the "ART" is soulless, misses that creative spark we humans have and is more like in imitation of art than actual art.
In that case it will not replace human artists.
The other case is it will make thought provoking works, things that evoke real emotions and has the ability to help humanity forward. In that case I don't really care the art is not made by humans.
But so far I'm not convinced AI (LLMs) can do this. If at some point AI makes all the art and humans stop making art. The AI doesn't get any new training data, so it would only improve by actuall creativity and coming up with things never done before. The current state of AI feels a lot more like mixing what it knows.