[heyitsguay]

Less glibly, I feel like the comment OP made is looking at first-order consequences of new generative technologies, but that it misses a deeper truth about art and creation. The creation of the camera didn't "solve" painting. By and large the art we find exceptional and noteworthy is that where an artist takes a collection of tools and invests a large amount of time in combining them in a new, rare, and/or exceedingly detailed and refined way. nobody is going to create enduring, culturally significant art off of 60 seconds of effort entering one prompt into Midjourney. There will be artists who do amazing things using, among other tools, generative AI, but it will be because they put lots of time into understanding the new creative possibilities they unlock and refining their composition into something aesthetically significant and uncommon, even given the new generative status quo.

[palata]

The question to me is: will "consumers" still be able to make the difference between this "amazing piece of art that used generative AI" and the rest of the random outputs of generative AI?

If people can't make a difference, I believe you have just killed the domain (in the bad way).

[ChainOfFools]

I think the problem that you're getting at is that people need a steady stream of income in order to have the time to innovate beyond what AI is capable of regenerating, but that steady stream of income has always been predominantly comprised of exactly the sort of derivative work that AI is going to completely undermine the market for.

Without the ability to do the usual stream of generic graphic design arrangements, or advertising Jingles that pays the bills, the aspiring genre-breaking creative has little or no means to develop an excursive masterpiece that the next generation of AI will slavishly absorb and regurgitate.

[kian]

There's a joke about art teachers funding future art consumers, but it's only funny because it's true. Teaching people to appreciate and distinguish is important to the arts now, more than ever. I wonder how much the work itself can be made to teach the subtle differentiations, and how to appreciate them? Would solve this whole problem handily.