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Once again, the "use case" for AI art is "makes it easier for scam artists to scam old people."
Every single time this stuff comes up with any sort of "practical" use for it, it's always something that actively makes society worse in some way. I've yet to hear an AI art defender actually justify why this is ok. It's always "Ok, it might be used by scam artists and cheapskates who don't want to pay artists and fascists to spread their toxic ideas and manipulate people, but it could have some hypothetical positive use case in the future, so we shouldn't discount it just yet!
100% AI art is only useful for replacing stock images and clip art. All the low effort stuff. MS paint memes might get replaced by ai stuff but I doubt that.
Using AI in conjunction with human made artwork, as another tool at the artists disposal, is where it can be useful. Theres all sorts of AI powered postprocessing thats been around for a while. But you could also do draw a spaceship and have AI generate a star field background for you.
Obviously, Capital will take a while to figure this out. It will attempt to use AI to solve its highest priorities first. Replacing all artists and scamming old people are more important than making good art.
Ehh, I generally don't like the idea of making AI do something in a piece of art unless the thing it's doing is so utterly inconsequential to that thing's artistic merit that it isn't worth a real person's time. Like, I wouldn't be mad if it got used to make 500 sand textures for the new Ubisoft game, for example, because no human being should be made to do that much work for such a minute impact. Even then, of course, there's still the issue that all the current models are founded on theft and are being used explicitly as a tool to extort the very same people they victimize, so this fun hypothetical question of "how much of our art should we let the computer do" is sadly tainted by the fact that it isn't actually "just the computer" doing it and, in fact, it is really the mimicked expertise of hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours of artistic creation being ground into grey paste and sold back to us for the benefit of big tech.