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If you don't think everyone's job is going to be replaced you're an r-slur
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Don't work useless jobs hun
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Emotional support animal will be among the last jobs automated
If you're an artcel its already over for you
If your job is to be a human processor interfacing with a conputer you're fricked
If your job is moving physical stuff around then your job is probably safe for another 5 years after that
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Artcels will be fine. Well, as fine as you could possibly be beeing one. Concept artists and illustrators might be fricked though.
But people violently misunderstand what being an artcel is about. Its not about making cool pictures, it's about selling a connection, to the artist, to prestige and to art in the form of a picture.
If it was just about fetch pictures people would just buy cheap Chinese replicas or posters instead.
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give stable diffusion a six axis robot arm, a paintbrush and set of oil paints, and an automatic canvas cassette retrieval system so the layers of oil paints can be allowed to dry their required times.
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Doesn't matter. It's not about cool pictures. Fine art is well, fine. If you do what you say what are we left with?
"Oh, here's my random picture painted in Real Oils by a robot in a factory." You've got Walmart art that's what you got. The point of art is that its exclusive, like branded clothes.
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you don't advertise the method, you create a few up and coming artists who happen to be in your employ
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"Be in your employ". That is not how the fine art world works. At all. Like, not even close. Not since like the 1600s.
Your whole business relying on being a scam really doesn't sound like a solid long term business proposal. Especially since the whole point of generative AI art is the sheer speed with which it can output things so you're either going to have to have a stupidly large amount of "artists" in your employ. At which point it would be obvious what you are doing.
Or you won't be able to output enough paintings for it to be worth it.
Honestly, at that point you might as well make forgeries instead.
Besides, where's the point? If you want, and are able to sell paintings just open a gallery. No need for expensive machinery, no need to employ anyone. All you need is a building where people come and look at shit. Just find art you think is cool and take 50% if you manage to find someone to sell it to.
Fine arts survived the camera. It'll survive AI.
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the objective is to put artcels under bridges shaking a can of quarters while flooding the fine art market
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Yes, and yet a computer will do it better because art is highly loss tolerant
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