Yes, AI is only a threat to corporate art for now. But what will happen when the new generations grow up in a world with technology that can generate in seconds or minutes something they enjoy and keep them entertained? Why bother going through the painful process of learning new creative abilities when AI will probably be able to generate everything future generations will consume (if things keep going as they are)?
Something like that is already happening with video games and game engines. When you talk with other game developers about making a game "from scratch" the first question they ask is "why?". Why bother making your own engine if there's already Unity/Unreal/Godot?
That's just a little example of how as something gets more and more accessible people forgets and disregard making it more manually. The same can absolutely happen with art in general, which is sad.
The only way I can think this won't happen is that we end up in a future with enough free time to invest in our hobbies and that more people than I expect will enjoy making things by themselves or maybe using AI for new ways to express themselves, which is the "good" future many AI enthusiasts mention and what I honestly would prefer too, but I don't have much hope.
Something like that is already happening with video games and game engines. When you talk with other game developers about making a game "from scratch" the first question they ask is "why?". Why bother making your own engine if there's already Unity/Unreal/Godot?
That's just a little example of how as something gets more and more accessible people forgets and disregard making it more manually. The same can absolutely happen with art in general, which is sad.
The only way I can think this won't happen is that we end up in a future with enough free time to invest in our hobbies and that more people than I expect will enjoy making things by themselves or maybe using AI for new ways to express themselves, which is the "good" future many AI enthusiasts mention and what I honestly would prefer too, but I don't have much hope.