[lukko]

I feel very strongly about this too. True art is a struggle to bring it into reality - you have to almost expand the space of possibility. It's easy to make derivative work, all the arguments about artists just interpolating other people's work are very weak - some artists do that, but good ones are truly original, even if they steal. It sounds a bit grandiose, but art can cut through the human experience to reveal some kind of truth. AI cannot do that because it does not understand the world or what it is to be human.

I think AI art is a complete misnomer and there is no net benefit of being able to generate images so easily, it just means there is more noise in the world.

[putpls]

I think AI art is a complete misnomer and there is no net benefit of being able to generate images so easily, it just means there is more noise in the world

Agreed. It will be difficult to not sound grandiose or pretentious when discussing this subject because the whole discussion becomes a question of what art is in the first place, but oversaturating it with soulless noise will benefit nobody.