/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

The more I see AI art and the people using it and saying real artists are not important anymore, the more it reminds me of Napster and illegal online downloading of music that happened, what, 25 - 30 years ago.

I remember those people that downloaded music online and said the musicians were going to be destroyed because no one would pay for their music in the future. Those people remind me of the people today that generate AI art and say they don't need artists and the artists will die off because AI art will replace them.

Musicians survived Napster, will still have human beings making music. Musicians did not go away. They are still here. And artists will not go away because of AI. No matter how much these AI using people say that visual artists will go away because of AI, they will not. We will still have human artists, no matter how good AI gets.