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Originally Posted by Sirtel
It is objectively worse at the moment. In a decade or two? I'm not so sure.
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I doubt it’ll even take that long. Give it a couple of years. People who are hard anti-AI are going to have a rough time. lol
I spent most of my career as a graphic artist, and I watched the exact same panic play out with CGI. Everyone swore they’d never support it. Now it’s in every game, most TV shows, and nearly every movie.
Before that, people said video game art had to be drawn pixel by pixel by hand or it didn’t count. That didn’t last. Same thing when Photoshop showed up. Folks acted like using digital tools instead of paint was cheating, or worse. I was there for that shift too. My office in California beta-tested the very first version of Photoshop.
None of those tools went away. They just became normal. AI will do the same. Adapt or get left behind.
The one thing I actually refuse to support is subscription software. I used Photoshop my entire career, starting with that early beta, and I finally dropped it. There are plenty of free or low-cost tools that do what I need. I’m not paying twenty bucks a month for permission to use software. And I never buy anything DRM if I can't de-DRM it. I sideload every single ebook I have.
I never upgraded past Kindle 3 (and won't), and I have spare parts, spare Kindle 3's and spare batteries/screens for it. I have enough ebooks downloaded to last me the rest of my life. If everything really does go full subscription forever, I’ll happily check out and live as an old-school tech offline hermit.
