The silver lining of AI’s war on artists?

In its aftermath, those sorting through the rubble will see with new clarity that the areas most impacted and easily replaced by AI, provide stark evidence revealing that over the past decades, the visual arts, music, film, fashion, and design had grown beyond their merits, driven by greed and commercial ambition.

Corrupted, saturated with mediocre works peddled by unscrupulous sales agents and bureaucratic administrators, the markets for music, film, fashion, and art had become clickbait markets, rehashing the same old tired ideas.

The AI purge will offer us all an opportunity to return to meritocratic standards and become the better artists we should have been.

As a silver lining, I like to try and remember that Ernest Hemingway served as an ambulance driver during World War I. His terse, understated style was born from the trauma experienced during the war. As he explained: “In order to write about life, first you must live it.”

If we ever wanted to become like our heroes, the time is now. We must double down and make the best work of our lives.