A machine might be able to make an objectively better thing, but that’s not what people are paying extra for. It’s the story about a real person applying their skills and effort to make it. Demand for that will likely never cease to exist. I bet it’ll just increase.


The famous painter Rafael ran a studio full of apprentices - he was a painter the way Thomas Edison was an inventor… it’s virtually impossible today to be sure how much of a Rafael painting was done by Rafael himself, though some of his apprentices had styles distinct enough for todays’ analyists to point to which part of which canvases they worked on.
See also: Rodin bronzes.