[hamuraijack]

I think you touch on a good point. I think, like the automation of other skilled labor, the first jobs to be affected are the low-hanging fruit jobs. The ones where they just need something good enough. While I think tools like these will decrease the total number of jobs, I think the jobs left over will be ones that artists will enjoy more, as they will require more creativity than just writing a prompt.

[omnimus]

This wasnt the case with industrial revolution. Most craftsmen either ended up doing a lot more joyless work as cog in factory OR they had to accept/adopt the factory process moved their creativity to design and ultimately lost their craft.

Main users of these tools will have to be illustrators. It will drive their prices down (it will be race to the bottom when you compete with instant AI) and over time there will be fewer and fewer people who will be able to create these visuals without AI because there will be no incentive to learn. Everyone will become prompt operator expert that will be the job.

You can imagine the slowly dying generation of illustrators in 40 years doing interviews for local TV about their wierd craft called drawing. (just like now you can see docs about scottish grandmas making tweed by hand).

[omnimus]

I wonder where will the people move up from the knowledge work. One would hope it would be more free time but we all know how that worked after industrial revolution :)