I'm not saying they "deserve" what they get, not any more so than the people who found themselves out of work after weaving or sewing machines were invented. Th

I'm not saying they "deserve" what they get, not any more so than the people who found themselves out of work after weaving or sewing machines were invented. That's just technological progress. Perhaps we have a very different understanding of what "art that matters" is, certainly I'm not thinking of anyone producing art at volume for a corporate IP. In any event, nothing ever stopped such a corporation from reproducing a certain style with cheaper labor, whether it's human or not. If you were, say, an art director working for a corporation, your job was never to perform much of that manual labor. AI isn't replacing you. Moreover, the emergence of mass manufacturing always comes with a counter-movement attempting to maintain the "human touch" and charging a premium for it. For every Budweiser, there's a thousand craft beers. Neither replaces the other.