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I feel the same way and I don't really have any advice. I condemn it and raise up critical voices until I feel myself starting to spiral (doesn't take long) and then pull up and refuse to think about it until I feel better. No idea if this is healthy, but it's keeping me at least decently sane.

I've been reading people post their "epic" ChatGPT D&D prompts and the comfort I've received from that, that every single thing is incredibly generic, mind-numbingly dull, embarrassing to behold for anybody who likes to write... is pretty good.

Since AI is a reflection of what it can scour the Internet for, it'll always tend to result in the same type of work. Lowest common denominator.

And, as more AIs post their work online, other AIs will read from that body of work, eventually turning them into a writhing mass of just the same garbage over and over.

This is for text, mostly. Visual art seems able to do more variety because it can steal art styles, but there are people doing work to subvert that - I just saw an artist yesterday post a tool that tricks AI into thinking her art looks like Van Gogh. It's called Glaze.

So there's going to be an active arms race here, which is great.

I think what's probably going to happen is we're going to see a lot of people -- who would NEVER actually pay an artist anyway -- fall into their own self-contained ecosystem of regurgitated mediocrity, and everybody else will just keep doing art.

I think the most harm that will come out of this technology is corporate; there'll be little reason for big companies who do not care about artists to pay for concept art or music or similar, so people who actually work as artists in corporate settings are going to have a hard time.

More reason to throw all your support behind indie artists and developers of all kinds. They're the ones who have always made the best stuff anyway.

Nah, friend. I don't even know what to do at this point. I'm just about to graduate four years of college in computer science, and I suddenly feel like all my skill will be negated because someone can hire an AI to write dangerous, unstable code for free.

I went into computer science simply as a stepping stone because at heart I was an artist. I wrote music, books, and most of all I made games. But these days I barely have time, and worse I feel the encroaching of needing a job, needing stable income, in a world where code has suddenly become free. My heart is so full of ideas and I want so, so badly to just make art. But instead I have to fear for my basic needs. Of hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs. Of 30% of all job postings being fake. Of AI propelling us towards homeless masses.

I just want to tell my stories with my friends. I want to draw, and doodle, and sing. I think back to what Miyazaki said when he first saw this technology. That it was an insult to life itself. I understand now more than ever why he uttered those words.