Oh my God, that's fantastic, haha. I ran into him probably 2019.

Omg, I met this turkey! I didn't realize he was an icon! I was just wandering around Oakland and stumbled upon this flower garden and there was a random turkey there! I was baffled, haha. He did seem ornery, I will say. This is the first I've ever heard anyone else mention him, hahaha.

Yeah, see, I don't think you actually disagree or you'd have explained how. Give it a think and circle back; I'd be interested to hear what about my opinion you think is incorrect and why.

What'll be left will be work that requires style or creativity or conscious design that machines struggle to provide; see my examples about blacksmiths and clothiers. Machines make most of our clothing nowadays, but we still have tailors, so what gives?

Oh, I didn't see this one! Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore it.

My opinion doesn't brush that aside, it explicitly acknowledges that creative jobs will be lost. My point, which you seem to have missed, is that a lot of that work is non-creative drudgery that artists often do to pay the bills.

What's bananas about it? I still don't understand how you disagree.

It sounds like you don't like my above opinion, but you haven't actually disagreed with it. If you disagree, I'd like to hear why.

I try to take into account my biases! And I have read and researched quite a lot about the history of automation, particularly on art and I know and have discussed this with several artists.

I am not, I'm actually an industry AI scientist, so take into account my potential bias.

But it's not the end of art nor the end of artists. I think art is on the threshold of a rebirth as AI, with all its problems, frees the world of art from the grind that many artists find themselves in.

You're still free to criticize AI art as soulless (eh, kinda), plagiarism (it is now, but one day it won't be), and uncreative (eh, kinda), and it's extremely defensible to demand human-created art on the products you buy, and there's no denying that AI will take lots of work from artists,

If you're a digital artist, this is an opportunity to explore paint or sculpture or whatever thing exists beyond the 1s and 0s. It's not hard to imagine an AI-powered robot that paints, but it is hard to imagine someone building a literal million of them.

Further, this is all digital. Now that anyone can "commission" multiple revisions of any art they want, digital art isn't rare. Soon, I predict, physical medium art will surge in demand because it can't be done at scale by machines like digital art can.

The invention of the camera freed painters from being required to paint photorealistic pictures; Picasso was capable of painting realistically, but the abstract direction his art took was enabled by cameras taking the work painters would've otherwise done.

Modern blacksmiths make beautiful gates and artful knives instead of making thousands of nails a month. Machine-learned models are inherently limited by what's already been made. Human artists are not.