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OK, to explain. I used to commission artwork to illustrate articles in the print media. We used to pay well and commission about 5 images a month.

These days we’d probably have the office intern tinker with some prompt writing for most of those.

Those people have just lost their living

Same with people that made buggy whips for horses.

And that’s fair enough. The original commenter asked ‘when artists would stop treating AI as competition’.

You are just reinforcing the fact that AI is competition.

Did you have a bad experience in art class growing up? Equating the two smacks of resentment.

They're literally equal as classes for this subject matter.