The American business, tech, and media press are saying that people who work with their hands will be fine in spite of the AI onslaught because AI can't do plumbing or sew quilts. But it's really about discovery and distribution. If Google is not providing search results anymore and is just providing "answers," the answers provided will soon be paid for by the highest bidder. Small artists, businesses, us - we won't stand a chance against the U.S. companies that will game the system to put you out of business, because none of us will get discovered, and so we will be unable to sell our art. Worse, AI will steal our art and ideas and present them as its own.
I don't know the answer yet for artists, but we really must think about how we can penetrate the thick AI shell that will envelop everything, whose mission is to conceal our work from the public in order to monetize descriptions of it for tech company profits. It's a frikken nightmare.
On the upside, I watched 11 documentary films (so far) about electronic music and art subcultures, and I recommend the one documentary you must watch. Some of this gritty energy is what we artists will need to battle AI, I think..
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