Fuck AI

I don’t understand why generative AI will kill making money from art. As you said, it’s just a tool.

If an artist can make a web comic in a fraction of the time they used to, they can multiply their output and thus possibly sell to more.

You're presenting the scenario of an artist using a tool to create more art. I think the concern is someone who would have hired an artist uses the tool themselves to make art instead of hiring the artist. Hence the comment @cm0002@lemmy.world made that GenAI won't kill art, but it will kill the ability to make money from art.

This isn't a new thing that just started with GenAI though. Entire professions of commercial art evaporated with the introduction of computers. How many typesetters were employed by major newspapers around the world 50 years ago? With the introduction of computers the number has drastically reduced. This is also true of graphic artists that used to work all day over a light box, waxer, and Exacto knife. Now all of that is done with far fewer people in a computer. I don't see how GenAI different from those technologies and how they impacted artist jobs.