I think artists who create art out of love and passion will be valued even more. Much like how handicrafts in an industrial and mechanized day and age still have their place. Also the countless “amish furniture” references I’ve encountered are a testament to that.
The artistic record is going to be stunning. “Now you can see an explosion in craftsmanship and diversity of perspectives from the Renaissance, when art became professionally viable outside of the patronage of religious/political institutions, to about 2020, when a new technology made it totally unviable for anyone to dedicate their life to developing artistic works. But hobbyist artists kept making it in their free time, so this is what we’re left with!”
There is a difference in material. Mass industrialised processes clearly can’t always replicate what small artisans produce. But when the output is digital most of material differences are gone. There is no reason AI cant generate 100% same digital image or text as human would do. But if you wanted to recreate “amish furniture” you probably can automate some parts but you still end up having the person/artisan. Industrialization didn’t go all all the way as AI did yet if you read people like William Morris it’s clear we’ve lost so much.
idk, social networks are kinda brutal to artists nowadays. In soo many ways.
And too much ai art would make discoverability harder. Even now sometimes if you google some style/artist/a character, top sites on google are AI generators...
