I look at these works of art created by artificial intelligence and I think: yes, it’s beautiful, yes, it’s good, but… What’s the point? Where’s the story, where’s the work, if everything is so simple, then what’s the point? It’s no better than a store where you come and buy, although no, you come, take everything you need for free and leave. I don’t see any value in it, it’s just boring.
For example, there used to be independent artisans who had their own shops selling food and even weapons. But over time, the Industrial Revolution happened, and now everyone could do what the artisans did, but faster and easier. As a result, yes, the artisans died out as a species, and now it’s the turn of creative professions that somehow still exist. As a result, life will become even more boring than before, even emptier, progress seems to kill the value of a person and does not always help him.
It will become boring if you think that nothing can be done. Even if creating isn’t a profession anymore (as in doing comissions or paid media like someone else said), the simple fact of drawing to show your love to something, to give a visual representation of your thoughts, it will never dissapear. Everyone seems hopeless, by the fact that they are all trapped in the social media loop. Life seem empty and boring if your only source of entertainment come from media consumption (which is the case for a lot from the rat race unfortunately)
But we will find a way out, and creativity will always matter. Maybe not for the next decades, but someday it will. Trust me ;)