[joe_the_user]

Under what circumstances would AI art be acceptable then?

I hate to make a sort-of standard Internet retort but artists (and "society") don't have any obligation to reserve some space for AI art to be OK within culture. Maybe such a possibility exists and maybe it doesn't. But given that present AI is something like a complex but semi-literal average of the art works various largish companies could find, it seems reasonable to respond to people's objections to that.

[sethish]

And society doesn't have to keep paying artists. It's a terrible, distopian future, but there's nothing to say we can't.

[cwkoss]

Society has "underpaid" artists for millennia.