> If they produce artwork that is objectively worse than a human-painted version would be, but still "good enough" for many mundane usecases - stock photos, concept art, etc - we might still see a wide adoption and displacement of human artists from those usecases - along with an overall drop in quality of artworks.
If people are happy with "good enough" they generally don't hire a digital artist in the first place (the whole reason DALL-E can exist is because there's a lot of digital imagery on relevant subjects/objects available to it to train, and there's even more an internet search away) or if they do, they get one off Fiverr.
For mocking up quick concepts, that might be different, but that's a workflow improvement.
If people are happy with "good enough" they generally don't hire a digital artist in the first place (the whole reason DALL-E can exist is because there's a lot of digital imagery on relevant subjects/objects available to it to train, and there's even more an internet search away) or if they do, they get one off Fiverr.
For mocking up quick concepts, that might be different, but that's a workflow improvement.