[pentachoron]

Well, exactly - the disruption is closely analogous to what happened with a lot of crafting trades during the first Industrial Revolution. Early weaving mills (etc) were okay at weaving, but certainly not better than the very best weavers - but they didn't need to be, as they just needed to do well enough to displace enough workers to "pay for themselves". (And, as a reaction, the Luddites formed to protest about the destruction of their industry wholesale.) And, even now, you can still buy - very expensive! - hand-woven items, but there's not really an industry in it any more, and a lot of crafting skills have become mostly hobbies. The current disruption in creative trades from the various AI generative models is the same for artistic etc creativity - and will probably have the same societal tradeoffs. [IMO, the copyright argument is actually distracting here from the actual problem people should be arguing about - the conversion of more types of human production into capital.]