On: Midlibrary: Library of 4000 Midjourney artistic st...

[llamaimperative]

The artistic record is going to be stunning. “Now you can see an explosion in craftsmanship and diversity of perspectives from the Renaissance, when art became professionally viable outside of the patronage of religious/political institutions, to about 2020, when a new technology made it totally unviable for anyone to dedicate their life to developing artistic works. But hobbyist artists kept making it in their free time, so this is what we’re left with!”

Brilliant.

[The_Colonel → llamaimperative]

Making a living as an artist is often more a function of building a brand, having interesting personality rather than of the art itself.

I don't think AI will affect "high art" much, it will rather destroy careers of "contract artists".