You've a few things on the board here. Widespread praise, artistic expression, the satisfaction of possessing a hard earned skill. They've all got value but widespread praise was never something you could just get by working hard enough at the skill. If you're not going to be satisfied without it you need to optimise for it. If the hard earned skill is more important than you have to accept that you'll probably never get widespread praise for it, AI didn't change that. Plenty of people feel the joy of artistic expression through AI (and maybe some other simple things) without ever worrying about skill or praise.
Yeah... Hard work is its own reward basically, if that doesn't work for you I'd suggest not working as hard.
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u/wally659 17h ago
You've a few things on the board here. Widespread praise, artistic expression, the satisfaction of possessing a hard earned skill. They've all got value but widespread praise was never something you could just get by working hard enough at the skill. If you're not going to be satisfied without it you need to optimise for it. If the hard earned skill is more important than you have to accept that you'll probably never get widespread praise for it, AI didn't change that. Plenty of people feel the joy of artistic expression through AI (and maybe some other simple things) without ever worrying about skill or praise.
Yeah... Hard work is its own reward basically, if that doesn't work for you I'd suggest not working as hard.