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Juts wanted to add, as an artist I don't feel threatened because my work is completely analog and much of it is the process of preparing natural materials, cutting paper, assembling, the smell, the feel, etc. So much of the art world is not remotely touched by this fad.

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I don't believe for a second AI will ever reach the human levels of reflection and creativity. To believe that you'd have to have an overly simplistic mechanistic view of the world and no insight at all into the psyche (sadly such people exist). The machines would have to develop a consciousness first, and a rich ferment of feelings and emotions to work from, and then the term AI would no longer apply, we'd have a different problem on our hands!

This whole business is still a huge problem for the livelihood of many, and also a threat in a more insidious fake news kind of way – the idea the general public, and powers that be, may internalise the belief that creativity is nothing more than what AI is doing sends a chill down my spine.

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