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We sure hope so! AI can certainly help provide more opportunities for struggling artists to be able to express themselves and create meaningful content. We at Rytr are doing our best to make sure everyone has access to the same resources and tools, no matter their background.

That sounds amazing! I worry though that there are clear signs that content consumption is saturated, and increasingly constrained by disposable time/income, while content creation is multiplying exponentially.

Commissioned art these days is pretty expensive anyway. So most artists are in a much better place, than years ago.

I think the golden age is just now over, actually. Check out the bot response for confirmation lol.

Ai generated art never really captures what an artist can though. For example. If someone wanted a piece of art of a wolf standing on 2 legs, hands up in a fighting stance, hands wrapped like a fighter, stern mean look on their face, with long braided hair, eye patch and a scar under their eye. Ai generated art can't do this. An artist can capture this though and thats the type of art that is worth buying. Ai just generates broad terms into images but can't generate something as specific as this.

A wolf standing on 2 legs, hands up in a fighting stance, hands wrapped like a fighter, stern mean look on their face, with long braided hair, eye patch and a scar under their eye is not my idea of art worth buying, but maybe I'm old and uncool?

The subject of the art isn't the point. You completely misunderstood the reasoning. The point of why I went into this amount of detail was to show what ai art generators can't do. Anyone can generate ai art for free. Not everyone can create art with specific defined features and specific parts in certain places though. Ai can't do specific stuff. Only an artist can do that. That's the reason you pay for a commission. There's plenty of generic ai art you can get for free.

That's fair, absolutely. The niche interest areas definitely die last. But you gotta understand that if there was a pie chart of worldwide spending on 'art' which is a product of artists, weirdly specific internet drawing commissions are a vanishingly small percentage.

Depends what it's for. To make it easier to understand why I included specifics, the way I did. Think of making art for a an indie game dev. Indi devs need specific art for their games. This type of art can't be done with ai and will be expensive. The same is true for 2d animation. 2d animation is still art, a bit beyond typical art but pretty easy for a good artist to learn, as its just drawing and redrawing things in new frames. This is expensive too. High quality sprites aren't cheap, but aren't ridiculously hard for artists to do either.