Are artists are less valuable since they were the first to be replaced by AI?

[Kardashians]

As soon as you can type in a few fetishes and have it spit out a porn video, these onlysluts are going back on the streets, or they will need to find a real job.

this is already a thing. women and men alike create ai fetish content and sell it lol.

 

[italiamusica]

Anyone who thinks AI will/should replace real art is just a fucking moron, and shows something that I've been preaching for a long time:

The average person doesn't give a fuck about the artist, just their art. Steal it, download it, fuck the artist apparently.

This also shows that the world is run now by the motto: GET THE BAG BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Use AI to write books for you, apps, games, porn, literally anything, and then try and pawn it off as your own. Losers looking for the easy way out.

If you've been a lazy dumb fuck and never learned a skill, just say that, don't preach for AI because you have no abilities.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Anyone who thinks AI will/should replace real art is just a fucking moron, and shows something that I've been preaching for a long time:

The average person doesn't give a fuck about the artist, just their art. Steal it, download it, fuck the artist apparently.

This also shows that the world is run now by the motto: GET THE BAG BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Use AI to write books for you, apps, games, porn, literally anything, and then try and pawn it off as your own. Losers looking for the easy way out.

If you've been a lazy dumb fuck and never learned a skill, just say that, don't preach for AI because you have no abilities.

I think the problem is that the public confuses design visuals with art and vice versa.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I love that talented artists and designers are so pissed off, fuck those guys

Now we need to replace those fuckers that can play guitar

 

[freakroor]

this thread is so dumb. professional artists still exist and probably always will

 

[GSP_37]

Human artists who specialize in erotic nudes will thrive because AI doesn't understand what makes the erections.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

this thread is so dumb. professional artists still exist and probably always will

Yes they may exist, but it will be harder for them to make a living imo.

 

[freakroor]

Yes they may exist, but it will be harder for them to make a living imo

harder than when? the starving artist stereotype exists for a reason.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

 

[Renard]

Hobby artist here. They weren't. The point of art is creating something that has meaning, evokes a particular feeling in the viewer, and/or expresses something that you're feeling or are fascinated about. AI generates slop that's technically impressive, stuff that would take a professional artist like 10 hours to make, in 30 seconds, but it's empty. The fun part of art is having a vision in your head and then wondering how you're going to pull it off. AI art has no vision at all. It's basically the opposite of art. This anti-art might win economically, but anti-art can't win against real art at being art.

I've talked about this before but AI art fits the definition of countermimicry perfectly. Gnostics said that countermimicry was the primary form of Archontic deception. It means to copy something but make the copy, the false version, serve a purpose counter to the original thing or idea. That's what it is.

 

[SKYNET]

I hope we get past the threshold of current AI which produces low level cheap, bizarre junk and advance to genius level where all music and video produced is upgraded to a genius level and will replace all the garbage humanity is adding to culture.

 

[cmw43]

As soon as you can type in a few fetishes and have it spit out a porn video, these onlysluts are going back on the streets, or they will need to find a real job.

Nerds are already making AI onlyfans creations and simps are paying up.

 

[Sixpounder]

Look, I get the frustration, but y’all sound like every generation when something new shows up. This ain’t the first time people screamed “that’s not real art!” I’m sure when digital tools first came around — like Photoshop or Illustrator — folks said the same thing: “If you’re not using oil and a brush, it doesn’t count.” Now those same tools are industry standard.

AI is just the next evolution. It’s a tool, not a sentient being. There’s still a real human behind the prompt, choosing the vision, curating results, refining outputs — just like an artist using a camera, a drawing tablet, or 3D software. Saying “AI art isn’t real art” is like yelling at a photographer for not painting the scene by hand. It’s just a different medium.

And honestly, the backlash kinda reminds me of the Luddites — those dudes in the 1800s who smashed weaving machines because they thought tech was going to destroy their jobs. Sound familiar?

Yes, AI will shake things up. Some lazy people will try to pass off junk. But it doesn’t kill real artists — just like the camera didn’t kill painters. What it kills is gatekeeping. And maybe that’s what some folks are really mad about.

 

[Renard]

Look, I get the frustration, but y’all sound like every generation when something new shows up. This ain’t the first time people screamed “that’s not real art!” I’m sure when digital tools first came around — like Photoshop or Illustrator — folks said the same thing: “If you’re not using oil and a brush, it doesn’t count.” Now those same tools are industry standard.

AI is just the next evolution. It’s a tool, not a sentient being. There’s still a real human behind the prompt, choosing the vision, curating results, refining outputs — just like an artist using a camera, a drawing tablet, or 3D software. Saying “AI art isn’t real art” is like yelling at a photographer for not painting the scene by hand. It’s just a different medium.

And honestly, the backlash kinda reminds me of the Luddites — those dudes in the 1800s who smashed weaving machines because they thought tech was going to destroy their jobs. Sound familiar?

Yes, AI will shake things up. Some lazy people will try to pass off junk. But it doesn’t kill real artists — just like the camera didn’t kill painters. What it kills is gatekeeping. And maybe that’s what some folks are really mad about.

Feel free to open PS or Illustrator, create a new blank canvas and see if it magically makes a piece of art for you. It won't. All the steps you do for a normal drawing have to be done. Lineart, shading, colouring. You also need strong knowledge of how many functions of the software work. If you can't draw on paper, you won't be able to make digital art either. It's not at all similar to AI.

That's like saying that self-driving cars improves your driving experience, it's the same as going from manual transmission to automatic transmission. Buddy, at that point there's no driving anymore, how can it improve your driving experience

 

[Satur9]

It hasn’t yet, but to assume it never will is kind of short sighted. Reminds me of the Luddite horse and that video.

 

[High Test With da Best]

Feel free to open PS or Illustrator, create a new blank canvas and see if it magically makes a piece of art for you. It won't. All the steps you do for a normal drawing have to be done. Lineart, shading, colouring. You also need strong knowledge of how many functions of the software work. If you can't draw on paper, you won't be able to make digital art either. It's not at all similar to AI.

That's like saying that self-driving cars improves your driving experience, it's the same as going from manual transmission to automatic transmission. Buddy, at that point there's no driving anymore, how can it improve your driving experience

Same dynamic with the Pro-Tools revolution in music recording.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Feel free to open PS or Illustrator, create a new blank canvas and see if it magically makes a piece of art for you. It won't. All the steps you do for a normal drawing have to be done. Lineart, shading, colouring. You also need strong knowledge of how many functions of the software work. If you can't draw on paper, you won't be able to make digital art either. It's not at all similar to AI.

That's like saying that self-driving cars improves your driving experience, it's the same as going from manual transmission to automatic transmission. Buddy, at that point there's no driving anymore, how can it improve your driving experience

They have generative ai art in ps and ai.

 

[Spam On Rye]

AI art isn't novelty. It will help companies with graphic design and marketing collaterals. Revisions would be a thing of the past since you could just type in a prompt. It would phase out the design department and just hire one freelancer to finalize stuff for production.

I'm not denying its practical benefits. I'm speaking to its metaphysical implications, what it means for creativity, authorship, and the human spirit behind art.

 

[Sixpounder]

Feel free to open PS or Illustrator, create a new blank canvas and see if it magically makes a piece of art for you. It won't. All the steps you do for a normal drawing have to be done. Lineart, shading, colouring. You also need strong knowledge of how many functions of the software work. If you can't draw on paper, you won't be able to make digital art either. It's not at all similar to AI.

That's like saying that self-driving cars improves your driving experience, it's the same as going from manual transmission to automatic transmission. Buddy, at that point there's no driving anymore, how can it improve your driving experience

Fair, but I think you’re missing the nuance.

Nobody’s saying AI art is 1:1 the same process as Photoshop or drawing — it’s not. But the jump from oil on canvas to Wacom + layers also felt “less real” when it first landed. Every new tool disrupts how we define effort, skill, and authorship. Doesn’t mean it’s invalid. Your example — opening PS and it doing nothing — actually proves the point. Prompting AI isn’t magic either. Try typing “cool sci-fi art” and see what junk comes out. Now try iterating, refining, structuring visual ideas across 10+ generations, balancing coherence and originality. That’s not passive. That’s craft — just a different one.

AI doesn’t replace vision, taste, or storytelling. It removes some of the technical barriers, sure — just like a DAW did in music, or photography did to fine art. But removing a barrier doesn’t erase the artist. It puts more weight on what you say, not just how you render it.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I hope we get past the threshold of current AI which produces low level cheap, bizarre junk and advance to genius level where all music and video produced is upgraded to a genius level and will replace all the garbage humanity is adding to culture.

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