Raw LLM Responses

I think you have a lot more reasonable view of where Art as an industry is headed to than many other artists out there. I'm a rare dinosaur, working for a single AAA game studio for the last 20 years, and I've avoided 2 major tsunamis in the industry. The first was the financial crisis of 2008, which was an external event that no one could avoid. But the second one, the advent of outsourcing, was a real job killer that I really felt threatened to the point of "join or else". So I made my choice to learn coding, and became a pipeline TD, mostly managing the flow of outsourced art, occasionally dabbling in automation to stamp out any hopes of in-house art. I've witnessed huge in-house art teams going from 200 to 20 within a couple of years while off-shore teams grew exponentially.   Now, we are facing another tsunami that's 10 times the size. I think you made a very succinct point about how the coming changes of AI compares to the animation industry switching from 2D to 3D. I clearly remember my animation instructors telling me, 24 years ago, that 3D animation would never go mainstream because it lacks that special human touch. Because computer generated graphics have certain sheen that turns people off, so 2D animation would always be with us as the golden standard of what "good" looks like. Well, little did they know that 2D animation would completely disappear within a very short amount of time, and no one would even think twice about whether an animation is generated in 2D or 3D. In my opinion, the same will apply to "artist generated" vs. "AI generated".   Most general consumers don't care about the fine prints of "how" the art was created as long as they "like" it. When's the last time you bought a custom tailored suit, or custom made anything from an artisan? We simply expect those products to be mass produced in factories, and we have no qualms about consuming them regardless of how they were created. I think we are heading in the same direction for the vast majority of art in media that we consume.