[krapp]

Art has always been open to the masses. Poor people could already access tools to create beautiful art, they do so all the time.

You're just venting your anti-leftist prejudice, I get that. Finding a way to work an anti-leftist rant into the subject at hand is practically a pastime around around here. But your thesis that only the wealthy and privileged were capable of creating art until generative AI came around is absurd. We've literally been in the midst of a global creative renaissance across every creative field, AI wasn't necessary for any of it.