> I think it’s time to point out some good things about AI art. The first and biggest is that art will now be cheap and available. Taking something previously

> I think it’s time to point out some good things about AI art. The first and biggest is that art will now be cheap and available. Taking something previously rare and valuable and making it cheap and available and showering it upon people like rolls of toilet paper doesn't bring happiness imo. It reminds me of this story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa I once read, titled 'Yam Gruel'. Basically a peasant looks forward to a yearly bowl of yam gruel which to him is precious and rare. But as a cruel joke he is invited to a dinner by a noble expressly to be served unlimited supply of yam gruel, and from then on he can never enjoy it again.