[23B1]

No, it facilitates commoditization. Art – real art – is fundamentally a human-to-human transaction. Once everyone can fire perfectly-rendered perfectly-unique pieces of 'art' at each other, it'll just become like the internet is today: filled with extremely low-value noise.

Enjoy the short term novelty while you can.

[fulladder]

This is the right prediction. Once machines can generate visual art, people will simply stop valuing it. We may see increased interest in other forms of art, e.g., live performance art like theater. It's hard to predict exactly how it'll play out, but once something becomes cheap to produce and widely available, it loses its luster for connoisseurs and then gradually loses its luster for everybody else too.

[int_19h]

So then you'll have curation to find the gems in that noise.

But it's still not clear why this is worse than the situation where not everyone can create perfectly-rendered pieces of whatever idea is in their head, and have to rely on others to do it for them, while being limited by what they can afford and what those others are willing to paint.

[BeFlatXIII]

> Art – real art – is fundamentally a human-to-human transaction.

Why is this hippie nonsense so popular?

[23B1]

Because some things are different than others, even though they might have the same word to describe them.