[Malte Müller]

But the key is: since everybody can now produce bland pictures without personality, you still need actual artists if you want to stay ahead. So the good ones will be in demand, perhaps more than before, no question about it.

Maybe but maybe all growing up with such bland images just get used to it and don’t care or miss anything anymore. And for sure don’t want to spend money on anything. Just like “no one” is buying music or films anymore because you can just stream everything.

The technology will do it anyway, so I might as well go with it.

It of course makes sense for someone who can neither draw nor write music or write a straight proper text himself. I am not complaining that technology generally replaces jobs that are not needed. All the jobs you cited where either hard work or rather cumbersome works. I don’t think that creative things are in the same league here… But anyway, AI will not stop here.

But the thinking mistake is that technology does this by itself and it is not invevitable law it does. It does not, it is largely driven by a rather small group of – let me use the poticial fight term – tech oligarchs – primarily in the US as usual, just like with social media – that push all this. (I do understand that the researchers inventing all that stuff just have to try it out of curiosity). I don’t want to mention the environmental issues with all the AI server farms.

I don’t follow the pragmatic way as you do but I am of course fatalist that the “Box of pandora has been opened” especially when I see what amounts of money are pumped into all these AI companies from all sides…

In any case at some point we will to rethink the “work for making a living” principle” if there is no work to make a living left.