> taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection.
When you put it like that, it sounds like a nightmare up side down world. It's not AI that's the tool for enhancing human creativity. It's humans that are the AI's tool, cleaning up the edge cases the AI artist can't handle (yet). It destroys creative jobs that give joy to people and creates assembly line jobs for them to slog in.
The humans are also the people that come up with the concept in the first place...
Also sounds like an upside down use of the tool, since AI generated art really isn't that great at composition once you've got over the magic of it being able to respond to the prompt at all (but is much better at texture and filling in boring details), and the current state of the art AI tools can produce images which conform to a human guideline sketch...
The purpose of jobs has never been to give people joy, but to extract value from their labor as quickly and efficiently as possible. Getting any kind of emotional satisfaction from one's work is a privilege which arguably points to an inefficiency in the market, as that energy is wasted which could better be put to productivity.
Artists, programmers and everyone else will have to find their joy somewhere other than than selling themselves to a corporation, once AI driven markets optimize away any room for "joy" and the like, and that's going to be one of the few good things about automation. The sooner we break people from the Puritan delusion that work defines a person's meaning and the value of their expression, the sooner we can once again decouple culture from the machinery of capitalism.
When you put it like that, it sounds like a nightmare up side down world. It's not AI that's the tool for enhancing human creativity. It's humans that are the AI's tool, cleaning up the edge cases the AI artist can't handle (yet). It destroys creative jobs that give joy to people and creates assembly line jobs for them to slog in.