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It would be a net positive if it didn't facilitate a whole bunch of Dunning-Kruger 'artists' summiting Mt. Stupid flooding the lower end of the commercial art m
by chefandy 3y ago
It would be a net positive if it didn't facilitate a whole bunch of Dunning-Kruger 'artists' summiting Mt. Stupid flooding the lower end of the commercial art markets with vaguely convincing looking bullshit. It weakens our artistic culture, waters down professional standards at the lower end of the markets putting a whole bunch of workaday or entry-level people out of jobs, and in turn, pushes less qualified people upmarket which makes it harder to hire and find work, and weakens salaries. Also, since the MBAs in charge will inevitably shove these tools down people's throats, it takes the most enjoyable parts of the artistic process away from you, replaces it with a bunch of crap amalgamated from a billion other people's work, and leaves the fussy, irritating, soulless, and completely not-rewarding task of cleaning up and enhancing some algorithm's bullshit. It would be like if developers had to start every single coding task with an ever-changing template of completely clusterfuck spaghetti code made by the worst intern at your company.