Yes, because so many of the extremely celebrated human artists (please support my digital created artwork that is a circlejerk supporting the current popular trends on the internet y’all) have lost their jobs. Can you name one?
I’m a watercolorist, I actually paint on paper. I don’t like digital artworks, they feel sterile to me. I don’t sell anymore, but others who do watercolor/gouache, that I follow on instagram (i.e. indie artists, not gallery artists), can’t easily sell stickers anymore, because all that sticker-type illustrations (e.g. teapots with nice designs, animals etc), have been taken over by AI designs on Etsy. Stickers has been the primary way these artists were making money in the last 10 years. Very few people buy prints, as they’re more expensive.
They’re not judging anything, they’re visualizing a future where their needs are met based on trends in tech. They just forgot we live in a world where the rich’s needs are met instead.
Turns out the physical tasks that hadn’t been automated by 2015 were really hard and generally risky if you get them wrong. The risks of generating slop are minimal.
Folding laundry is a task that has stumped robots since 1990.
Look at google’s last robots, they have them tying plastic bags and screwing light bulbs.
I think a lot of those robots are very expensive and liable to break the bones of onlookers when they go wrong…
I don’t think they’re for sale, more of a research thing right now, but the point is that the technology is there, it just hasn’t reached the market yet.
As for being liable to break the bones of onlookers… This is always the argument that comes up for some reason, same as self-driving cars. In reality, I’ve known my fair share of humans who are liable to break the bones of onlookers when things go wrong too.
They also get pretty banged up from working in real life situations like factories so they’re expected to not be that cheap with replacement parts.
