True artists are not threatened at all. Many will in fact embrace this, just as they embraced photography to aid in their painting. And many embraced the photo medium itself as its own art form.
I can see artists using this tech to try out ideas, and then moving things around - editing, and perhaps repainting the results using their own signature techniques. How would that be any different than working from sketches or little clay dioramas?
AI can also produce very convincing music in the style of Mozart, it isn't Mozart. My own music attempts to sound like a synthesis of Debussy, Gershwin, Keith Emerson and late romanticism. If AI would only produce that sound for me, I'd be all set as I'm lazy and just want to hear the music in my head instead of working it out, but since it isn't I have to sit down and go through the painstaking process. Even one minute of music is an awful lot of black dots on a page.
—”Even one minute of music is an awful lot of black dots on a page.”
Unsure about music, but visual artists often work with skilled students and assistants...
Christo wasn’t repelling on the side of the Arc de Triomphe to wrap it, at that time he was pinning for the fords or something.
A coworker’s family owned a fabrication shop for artists, they bring in the plans and they would shape and weld it.
Guessing that Andy Warhol ‘guided the process?
Many busy writers simply provide an outline to their staff...
A fun example:
“Naked Came the Stranger”
is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at the American literary culture of its time. Though credited to “Penelope Ashe,” it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.
McGrady’s intention was to write a book that was both deliberately terrible and contained a lot of descriptions of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book fulfilled the authors’ expectations and became a bestseller in 1969; they revealed the hoax later that year, further spurring the book’s popularity.
...The publisher, Lyle Stuart, was an independent publisher then known for controversial books, many with sexual content. According to Stuart, he had appropriated the cover photo (a kneeling nude woman with very long hair down her back, photographed from behind) from a Hungarian nudist magazine; the model and photographer later demanded and received payment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger