[shaneoh]

I wish this were the case but I'm not really sure I buy it. I'm a software engineer with absolutely no eye for design or illustration. Now I can write a prompt to get me a good-enough image in 90% of cases whereas before that was totally unreachable without an artist. I don't need any training to use this tool and in many cases it gets me to the full end result without any modifications needed.

The reverse doesn't hold -- there are no tools that allow an artist with no training or study to be an effective developer. I'd say the CMS example is more of a data entry job than a development job now, it's two different things.

Most of the advancements in tech still need trained developers to utilize them. GPT-4 cannot create non-trivial programs itself and does not seem particularly close to doing so, it's mainly used for scaffolding and bug fixing and guiding, all of which still need a trained developer at the wheel.

I'm worried for the future of artists.

[kqr]

> I'd say the CMS example is more of a data entry job than a development job now, it's two different things.

Right, but it used to be a development job, which is the point. The CMS took a development job and turned it into a data entry job -- exactly what DALL-E does to some limited forms of artistry.

But development didn't disappear, and neither will artistry.

[astrange]

Were you using artists for anything you can use DALLE for now? Probably not, because what they're best at is too different. But making them more similar will actually increase demand for them because you'll have higher standards for whatever you get out of them. (Jevon's paradox)

Basically, there is no circumstance under which automation reduces demand for labor. It's like if you got a pay raise and started worrying it might make you poorer.

[shaneoh]

> Were you using artists for anything you can use DALLE for now?

I mean sure yeah, in the past I would pay for logos from artists and now I just make them with AI for my projects instead.