@kanrei @AuthorJMac @Uddelhexe It's definitely a threat, I'm just not sure how much it'll be. For, even if AI does manage to solve the problem of the seven-fingered foot, there's still the question of plagiarism and, if there's a positive aspect to lawyers earning more than artists, that'll be it.
Still, I've seen typists, typesetters and music copyists go extinct in my lifetime, thanks to technology, so it's possible that AI will do for illustrators what, say, photography did for painters.
@wibble @kanrei @AuthorJMac
I hope not, cause the forementioned functions that went extinct were not those producing new art or writing, just doing technics around it. And fotography did not erase painters. They do very much exist and paint. Photography is just an added artform that still uses the human mind to search for the motive, set in in scene, focus...but Ai is for one not producing something new and cannot live out of its own products. It needs human inpact