I think it might actually be beneficial for artists, in the long run. Assuming that AI will remove the need to work for a living[1]. I recently saw a “modern a

I think it might actually be beneficial for artists, in the long run. Assuming that AI will remove the need to work for a living[1]. I recently saw a “modern art” exhibition and one of the things on display was quite literally a black square in a white wall. That’s it. AI could have produced that long ago. But presumably the artist, and at least some of the people viewing it, got something out of this as a means of expressing “something” (I don’t know what, I clearly didn’t “get it”). If AI liberates artists from having to make money from their art, then they can focus on expression and “art for arts sake” without having to worry about appealing to whoever is likely to pay them. Sure, the AI could create the same art, but it could create that black square too, long ago. That didn’t stop this particular artist. [1] I don’t think it will, automation has already improved productivity and production a thousand fold over the past 100 years, yet we still have to work just as hard while a handful of rich people are richer than ever before, with more personal wealth than sone nations. More likely, AI will make a handful of rich people even richer still leaving the rest of us in the dust, probably being put to work on meaningless grunt work — don’t want to waste valuable AI time on flipping burgers now do we!