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1 posted on 07/21/2026 3:12:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, at least there’s always fanfic.


2 posted on 07/21/2026 3:19:45 PM PDT by mairdie
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Arts career 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

There’s your problem.


3 posted on 07/21/2026 3:21:58 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Well written and I cannot say I disagree. How about a counter argument?


4 posted on 07/21/2026 3:22:03 PM PDT by Fungi
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Hate to be the one to break it to her (or do I?), but if an AI-generated story is as good as anything you ever wrote, then maybe that says less about AI than it does about you.

On the other hand, maybe the LLM that generated the fiction was drawing the body of work generated by the author and her compatriots in the world of fiction, in which case maybe it could be taken as a compliment.

Just sayin’...


5 posted on 07/21/2026 3:24:48 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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No arts career is safe!

Start writing interesting, provocative Ai mysteries.

Reminds me of when I had a double major in college. Spanish and Archeology.

I just LOVED Spanish from an early age. Later, was introduced to and fascinated with Archeology.

Eventually dropped the Archeology as I learned you really cannot pay a mortgage, or any other bill, pursuing Archeology.

Before dropping Archeology, I did get to participate in a Central American Maya excavation, so it was not all for naught.

7 posted on 07/21/2026 3:29:37 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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AI looks for the answer acceptable to the most people. Think of all the derivative crappy pop that dominated the late 90’s / Early 2000 airwaves. That was radio execs calculating as AI does to get the most listeners.

If your art consists of aggregating, imitating, or regurgitating the work of others, you are in trouble.


9 posted on 07/21/2026 3:29:43 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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Pelosi: ObamaCare Helps Artists Avoid Hassle of Working

https://www.cato.org/blog/pelosi-obamacare-helps-artists-avoid-hassle-working


10 posted on 07/21/2026 3:31:01 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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We’ll soon all be Eloi.


11 posted on 07/21/2026 3:33:59 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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"Dear ChatGPT - write me an article about a creative writer losing his job to AI."

Well, I would have.

12 posted on 07/21/2026 3:34:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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AI can’t create it just copies ,like the Chinese


14 posted on 07/21/2026 3:35:43 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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It’s not only art jobs... Tens of millions of people will be replaced by AI... Get used to it because it’s going to start happening at a very fast pace.

Here’s a suggestion... Learn how to use a hammer... Construction and trades jobs are going to be the future... Right now these trades are very good paying, and it’s hard to find a plumber or an electrician... As AI forces people towards these trades... Getting a plumber or an electrician will become much easier in future. Who knows... Stone masonry may even make a comeback.


15 posted on 07/21/2026 3:36:40 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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I’m thinking of one way the creative person may react to the existential Black Cloud of AI’s overreach:

Perhaps there will be a greater call for live performances for playrights, in person seminars for writers/ in person studio sessions for anatomy study and Fine Art techniques those who enjoy it’s production. More in person guided experiences, even if only by ZOOM.


16 posted on 07/21/2026 3:38:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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There is no way to stop it. What Beatles fan is going to resist listening to a new album from the Fab Four because it was written and recorded by an AI app? Who wouldn’t be curious about a new Shakespeare play or a tenth symphony by Beethoven?

He is dead wrong...about some of us on the right. "Some" given what I've overheard/read.

The left? 'Nuff said.

But this Conservative avoids everything AI when I have the knowledge to do so.

17 posted on 07/21/2026 3:38:36 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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How do we know AI didn’t write that article?


19 posted on 07/21/2026 3:43:18 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Hmmm...”learn to code” comes to mind, but AI took over that. How about “Learn to mine coal”? Nah, the greeniacs destroyed that. What’s left? Not much.

Mr. Musk predicts 100 million anthro-bots running inside five years (maybe even a billion, he says) and he just tore down his very first Tesla 3 factory and retooled it to build Optimus robots. So surgery and shoe shining are out of the question.


20 posted on 07/21/2026 3:43:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Can you code?


21 posted on 07/21/2026 3:44:15 PM PDT by drypowder
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Well, sooner or later either some opponent or the Sun is going to EMP us big time, and we’ll have to start over, sans computers and such...


24 posted on 07/21/2026 3:46:44 PM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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It’s a real threat, and not just in the arts. Why not replace college and professional sports with AI generated games and players? We could take injuries and bad calls out of the game, and every game could be a cliffhanger. The great players of the past could be given pixelized immortality on the holodeck. All races and genders could be fully and proportionally represented, and soon every viewer will be able to give a prompt and have a bespoke game and season conjured up in seconds.

What’s not to like?

All sports would become self referential daydreams, and I can be the hero every time.

Oh, goody.

When the concept is proven in sports, we can then apply it to politics....

Team Mamdani and Team Trump can exist blissfully sude by side because all the work will be done by machines and opposing factions will not even be aware of each other because everyone will be in a completely self referential virtual reality. Life will be an eternal conversation with oneself. Bliss.

Or maybe not.

Science fiction got there a long time ago.

But for anyone who steps out of the pods, there are awkward and challenging encounters with others. There is disagreement, conflixt, loss, pain, surprise, delight and joy in a world that is not predictable becauae it is not scripted. It is the encounter with The Other that drives everything.


27 posted on 07/21/2026 3:50:40 PM PDT by sphinx
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Here’s what’s left for humans, apparently: sitting around, unpaid, telling each other it’s all over. But, if you aren’t on that bandwagon, you missed it. Already half of Twitter’s already doing that job full-time, for free, and doing it well.

Every essay declaring the death of human effort is itself a fresh instance of human effort, just aimed at the wrong target. Honestly, Geoff should’ve pitched his “I got replaced by AI” story to Woman’s Weekly. Guaranteed sale. Turns out that’s the one market no robot’s cracked yet, mostly because it’s the only one still standing.


30 posted on 07/21/2026 3:54:04 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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And the millions of tech jobs taken by H1B visa holders? AI is nothing compared to the Indians. AI is an excuse for the Indians


33 posted on 07/21/2026 4:01:08 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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