"AI" doesn't create, it just regurgitates and meshes. Everyone's saying it like it's a bad thing but I don't think so?
@levisan it is for a number of professions, and raises some serious questions about intellectual property.
Not that the movie studios and pop music industry haven't been doing their best, but it is almost almost guaranteed to be the death of originality or novelty of any kind (by definition.)
It is potentially the death, or a severe culling of designers, musicians (especially composers and producers), writers, editors, and so on.
If this had occurred in an age where people had taste, it would be a curiosity, but in an era where packages of coke emphasize elementary addition, it is a much bigger threat.
It remains to be seen what kind of "better" current engines might become, but I suspect that we'll either have an uncanny valley effect that separates the crap from the cream, or dumb everything down to make AI look competitive:
@jezza I don't disagree!
I guess what I'm trying to say is… is it really bad that it can't actually create something new, assuming the users know what's going on? Ignoring the mediocre-or-worse media being produced, but for other uses.
If only "we" can pivot "AI" away from being a thing being used for slop and focus on better uses…