Thats the same issue with dall-e, stable diffusion, or any of these, and the ML world seems to think its a win and artists don't deserve to have jobs if they can't compete with or become users of those models.
If you can't get paid to produce art as a journeyman that supports your basic needs you won't make it to being a master artist except in your free time, maybe, and you won't have the same work references for work on projects during your development. It will be somewhat like in the writing world, where many or most of the major writers are independently wealthy because nobody else can afford to take the time that writing requires off of real work that feeds and houses them.
Imagine replacing all the engineers in training with ML and wondering why there are no engineers later. Thats where we're headed.
I don't think 'pulling up the ladders behind you' is an issue here at all. This isn't artists or writers pulling up the ladders here .
The ML experts who are making these systems aren't professional writers or professional artists. Industry is always convinced by automation and lower costs, and boards who make these decisions are senior professional management not creatives. Neither group ever cared about the ladder behind them in other industries or their own companies.
The question is one of what we want to accept as societal norms, or push for legislation of regulation. Personally I think the idea of banning such systems won't work, but all writing done by ChatGPT or other 'creative' work done by other ML models should be regulated such that it must be marked with a discloser that it is the product of a 'creative' machine learning model. Human authorship is an important distinction that needs to be clearly distinguished.
If you can't get paid to produce art as a journeyman that supports your basic needs you won't make it to being a master artist except in your free time, maybe, and you won't have the same work references for work on projects during your development. It will be somewhat like in the writing world, where many or most of the major writers are independently wealthy because nobody else can afford to take the time that writing requires off of real work that feeds and houses them.
Imagine replacing all the engineers in training with ML and wondering why there are no engineers later. Thats where we're headed.