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One of my colleagues teaches Art and English as a foreign language. She's not even poor because we're in a country that doesn't shit on teachers, but even she uses generative AI to illustrate her slides and create grammar posters. She's time-poor, and she's not giving the school any labour for free making posters in her free time when she's got a family life to live. Nobody cares if the capybara character on the poster has 5 or 4 toes. It's not a maths poster. The students think it's funny and we move on. No artists are losing work, because even without the AI option there's no budget for decorating lesson slides or making posters to take home. Unless anyone wants to work for exposure. Can pay plenty in exposure.
And on the flip side, neither of us is using AI to replace artists in situations where we use artists. She still does her own personal art, and I just wrapped a Christmas gift for a valued friend that I paid another artist friend to create. Took her seven months because she's also pressed for time, and the chats we've had over the creative process are one of my fondest memories for this year.
Is this a regional thing? Is it different in your country, wherever you are? I've got musician friends using AI to help make music videos and artist friends using AI to make music for their comic strip posts, and nobody's losing any sleep over it. There's some other variable and it's not the AIs.