Overview
1. Automation Risk
2. User Poll
3. Growth
4. Wages
5. Volume
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Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

Moderate Risk
50%
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
64%
(High Risk)
POLLING
36%
(Low Risk)
Average: 50%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
4.0%
by year 2033
WAGES
$59,300
or $28.51 per hour
Volume
10,910
as of 2023
SUMMARY
JOB SCORE
4.4/10

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Calculated automation risk

64% (High Risk)

High Risk (61-80%): Jobs in this category face a significant threat from automation, as many of their tasks can be easily automated using current or near-future technologies.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some very important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Originality

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Fine Arts

  • Finger Dexterity

  • Manual Dexterity

User poll

36% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. However, the automation risk level we have generated suggests a much higher chance of automation: 64% chance of automation.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

What is the likelihood that Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?






Sentiment

The following graph is included wherever there is a substantial amount of votes to render meaningful data. These visual representations display user poll results over time, providing a significant indication of sentiment trends.

Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Moderate growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' job openings is expected to rise 4.0% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2021 and 2031
Updated projections are due 09-2024.

Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' was $59,300, or $28 per hour

'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' were paid 23.4% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Significantly lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 10,910 people employed as 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 13 thousand people are employed as 'Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators'.

Job description

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

SOC Code: 27-1013.00

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mofie (Uncertain) 1 month ago
While the human touch is a fundamental and necessary part of creating art in human societies, it's unclear if powerful people are willing to recognize it. To them, value is not in the art but the dollar.
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Mannara (Highly likely) 3 months ago
Besides robots and ai will never be able to "create" just imitating some part f it, also besides make art is a long way, a synthesis of a human's life, knowledge, experiments,... , the need for art and the people's bounded view of art makes art cheap and replaceable by pretty pictures. And when people will stop to create it will be a day of the end and humankind will lost itself.
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IQ (Low) 5 months ago
It's hard to make physical pieces look real as a robot.
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Mannara 3 months ago
saddly it's not, you just need more money and better robot.
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Stefano 2 months ago
I doubt it very much, they have no Love, Soul, Creativity, Human Touch and Empathy, they will NEVER have it
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Electrick010 (Highly likely) 10 months ago
Because sometimes society fails to recognize the difference between a crafted work and a revered one, they therefore resort to using AI for tasks because it is not as demanding compared to an artist (which I perfectly understand the requirements). In conclusion, it is likely that AIs will develop enough to perform more comprehensive tasks, but it will cost money.
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defeated art major 10 months ago
we are in hell. genuinely. my job is going to become obsolete. nobody is going to care about human artists because companies always have and always will value the quickest, cheapest work. no matter what the correct answer is (that human-made art will always be superior to ai-generated images), all artists are going to be irreversibly ruined by the advance of ai. i have absolutely no hope for my future.
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Astro 4 months ago
I have the same sentiments as you :(. What is even the point of being in this world if it sucks so much and WILL get worse?! The people at the top do not care about us. They just want to line their pockets in order to buy more materialistic s**t.
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Seb (Moderate) 10 months ago
primarily aesthetic value (not with design nor communication value). Many artists are thus likely to be replaced, even when the automated version is of lesser quality: a large percentage of the audience considers this quality difference negligible sadly.

So, can artists be replaced by AI? Not really. Will they be replaced anyway because people do not care about the lesser quality? Probably
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Seb (Moderate) 10 months ago
Art is seen as a commodity by many with primarily aesthetic value (not with design nor communication value). Many artists are thus likely to be replaced, even when the automated version is of lesser quality: a large percentage of the audience considers this quality difference negligible sadly
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Core (No chance) 12 months ago
Fine art is specifically traditional art. automating it would defeat the purpose.
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Felk (Highly likely) 1 year ago
Because AI ART is already taking over and things just haven’t started yet!
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Mannara 3 months ago
it is not art. There is no artistic creation in the ai process. Not it doesn't even a tool, but it don't need too much to become one.
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Fan of artists (Highly likely) 1 year ago
At least for digital artists it seems possible. I was in denial but with newer image generators it has got rid of that creepy look AI generated content had. Now I believe it’ll only improve.
Automation of art will not only kill the dream jobs of many but will have devastating outcomes for various parts of our society/life. It will get ugly.
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Vrushabh (No chance) 1 year ago
Robots can do a print like painting not at all texture of painting or extra effect such was done only by painters or artists
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Ritunjoy (Low) 1 year ago
Fine art is more than just making a lovely picture; it is the connection, emotion, and story behind the painting that makes it unique. AI will never be able to replace this.
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An aspiring artist (Low) 1 year ago
Human emotion is what drives the creation of art. Yes AI can 'create' art, but it will never create it to express. It will only create it for the sake of creating it. Soulless, dull, and meaningless artwork.
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A 2 months ago
I agree. AI is not alive.
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Eduardo Henrique (Highly likely) 1 year ago
I don't think "originality" is praised, so people will be satisfied enough with images produced by AI. I don't think Art will die, but there won't be jobs for fine artists in the future.
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Stef (Uncertain) 1 year ago
Maybe the common way of doing this kind of jobs may be at some risk, specially if the people who wanna dedicate to this only rely on strategies that worked some time ago (referencing a lot to the ''cheap artists and clients''), also the ai scammers who want to have some kind of taste of the benefits in gaining form visuals.

Not going to disappear, but in some way getting harder for sure. Or not necessary that word of being impossible to have that job, just the fact that now only the ones who are always determined to learn and adapt no matter what, are the most likely to survive.
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j (Moderate) 1 year ago
Parts of this industry will be impacted and displaced. Especially I feel in digital illustration. Basic illustration tasks will be automated and used by both larger companies to save on costs and smaller due to lack of budgets. Setting aside copyright infringement, AI may impact 2d digital illustration.

Artists for personal expression on the other hand, probably will not be affected.
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HG (Moderate) 1 year ago
The field has different likelihood of replacement. Sculptors and painters are safer, while graphic artists, illustrators and photographers are at great risk. Any fine art that can be (mass) reproduced, that is not one-of-a-kind can "easily" be replaced by AI.
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Atlas (Low) 1 year ago
AI art pushback, copyright issues
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Stefered (No chance) 1 year ago
Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Never Replace Artists. AI Have No Soul, Love, Heart, Mind, Creativity and Hands, Human Touch is Better.
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awa (Uncertain) 1 year ago
Concept artist? No chance to be replaced.
But for artist who take commission, it could go either way.
As a non artist, I will probably go for AI first before going to a real artist if the AI doesn't give me a satisfied result.
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