In the short term. I had the same answer over ten years ago. In the long term it could work out as profitable... but you can't know that for sure.

I don't like to gamble... so I don't.

For sure there's a monarchy out there with a preference for skilled Americans. I say go for it, get yourself a king.

Trump is not special.

The modding community was different. I won't say better - artists risk cheapening their work when they do it for free/cheap after all - but you wouldn't have had trouble finding an artist. Game engine communities were like that too. I can't speak to what it's like now though.

Just from an audience perspective, if something unexpectedly good comes out of it, I'm going to want to find the original work it's based on. The style isn't in the seed. It's not always explicitly stated in the prompt. The prompt is not always shared. AI's do not reliably reverse engineer prompts. Users are gamblers, and so too are the viewers. You never know what you're going to get, and you're never completely sure that you can repeat it.

We can't band together against real threats because by the time we think to do so, we've already been sectioned off into little factions by propaganda like this.

Fascist arguments are best left ignored. They're really only interested in concentrating power and wealth. Everything about them is a means to that end. Fascism is bad for you, even if you're depraved enough to have a fetish for state-sanctioned murder, slavery, theft, and censorship.

When the process is just code you can be forgiven for thinking that.

void artist()
{
while(true)
{
drawpixel(rand(1,640),rand(1,480),rand(0,255),rand(0,255),rand(0,255)); //x,y,r,g,b
}
}

I mean, you wouldn't call this art. Something several orders of a magnitude larger won't be any easier on the eyes... but you might enjoy watching an artist work. Timelapse videos are quite popular.

A robot battle between nuclear powers is too pointless to even joke about. The people-killing-drones and drone-killing-drones are for dealing with lesser powers.

While I'd love to make a "preset kill-limit" reference here, I'm not sure why nukes wouldn't render any of that moot.

If there's something missing from that new paradigm - I guess where most people just sit, receive welfare checks, and consume - it's an interest in encouraging and preserving the expertise necessary for creation. If we forget it all for the sake of AI driven efficiency, if we're driven out of being a meaningful part of the system that supports us, we risk being unable to recover when it breaks.

You'll want a human for things that need to follow a design and remain consistent. Not all work requires that, so there will be losses.

That random animal on your programming textbook is a one-off. Someone made that and maybe receives royalties from it being there. It doesn't reference anything; it has nothing to do with the contents of the book. It's just meant to be eye-catching - which AI does perfectly well today. That artist's money may dry up. Meanwhile, for architectural renderings, mere approximates of the model won't satisfy, no matter how pretty they are. Further design choices may be made from renderings, so consistency matters. Likewise for more creative work when characters and sets need to follow a design and remain the same between shots.

AI will eventually be able to do everything perfectly, but if the progress of the self-driving car is any indication, it could take several more years before that happens. In the meantime, artists, like drivers, remain mostly safe... with some unlucky souls relegated to guiding an AI's hand and fixing its work when it stumbles.

And double negatives are right out.

Also maybe reconsider not posting on Slashdot from an iPhoneâ¦

Youâ(TM)re also taking that gamble if youâ(TM)re using a third party smart/fitness watch.

â¦Maybe donâ(TM)t be in the habit of sending sensitive/incriminating info via text.