Comment on Modern photography doomed Still Lifes as a common type of painting

AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think what OP means is that the invention if the photocamera left a lot of painters unemployed. Pralleling that to current times, where AI is threatening the jobs of many artists. Obviously still lives are still being made today, and a decade from now artists will likely still have a job as well, only the market is a lot smaller.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And cars cost the horses their jobs

    And plenty of agricultural machines have removed thousands of jobs.

    Humanity has been increasing efficiency since the dawn of humankind, there is nothing new there, not even with AI.

    Even before AI I worked for a company that made ETL tools and that eliminated a bunch of people’s jobs, because you no longer needed to do manual work with excels, only once when you setup the ingestion process, ofc for that you need a higher skilled worker who could work with the program.

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