I think that future has a lot of really cool and cheap tools that will help all those artists, photographers, programmers, etc get even more out of what they love doing. I think there will wind up being some job markets that shrink (not with the tech we have now though) for small-medium things in all of these fields (think logo design, stock photos, client libraries, simple out-of-the-box applications) and my hope is that those job markets that shrink cause others to grow due to the increased levels of productivity that these tools will give us.
Ultimately my argument is that these tools will allow human beings to accomplish more things with less and that these tools should be distributed to as many people as possible for as little cost as possible. Part of that belief comes from the fact that I think these tools are coming no matter what and I'm slightly concerned about the potential (although unlikely-looking) future where a small number of large corporations are the only ones controlling these tools and they just rent-seek on them.
The job market for cheap rehashed garbage will grow and quality productions will suffer.
For programmers, the job market for loud-mouthed posers and plagiarizers will grow and quality will suffer. But those programmers will be fluent in marketing speak.
In a world where the cost of producing cheap rehashed garbage approaches 0 why would the job market for cheap rehashed garbage grow at the expense of the expensive unique gems market?
There will definitely be more cheap rehashed garbage online and we will be forced to invent tools to wade through it. I actually look at that as a bright side because there's already a lot of cheap rehashed garbage, we just don't have good tools for wading through it yet because it hasn't become completely intolerable yet.
Ultimately my argument is that these tools will allow human beings to accomplish more things with less and that these tools should be distributed to as many people as possible for as little cost as possible. Part of that belief comes from the fact that I think these tools are coming no matter what and I'm slightly concerned about the potential (although unlikely-looking) future where a small number of large corporations are the only ones controlling these tools and they just rent-seek on them.