This existential threat is even more apparent to artists, with the past 2 months having social media full of pictures from apps like Lensa AI , Prisma, Wonder and so forth. All these apps essentially create art portrait-eque renditions of people’s faces, and everybody loves them for that. However as the video also explains, the AI behind these apps has definitely learnt it’s artistic style from essentially messing a bunch of people’s artistic works and then using those to create these pictures, which is basically copying someone’s work and repurposing it for another project. As you can imagine, artists aren’t pleased with this, especially since a lot of this work actually has some artists signatures copied onto it. And their anger is definitely understandable. Once upon a time we considered art to be this hard-to-define, innately human talent that some people have and some people just don’t, and yet here we have what’s essentially a computer deconstruct pure human talent to a few numbers, patterns and a series of angles, color codes and polygons in and producing what’s virtually the same level of quality. It makes one wonder if there’ll even be professional artists in the next few decades, or rather if the ones that are there will be paid as much when even the average joe can pay something like DALL-E to create anything from a self portrait to a movie poster. It seems AI can put even creativity, or rather the viability of creativity as a source of income , at a risk, and this definitely would put anyone in this field at risk.