“My fear is that our industry will be diminished to such a point that very few of us can make a living,” Ortiz says, anticipating that artists will be tasked with simply editing AI-generated images, rather than creating.
This feels very prescient. Maybe there will be laws passed to compensate artists for feeding their work to an AI, but there’s no way companies will avoid using AI to do the heavy lifting.
I think this would be a decent compromise. It feels like the core of the AI art fight is really who can make money off of it.