I quite thoroughly disagree with this doomsday outlook. I've been having a ball with watching and participating in the TikTok community's embrace of a new AI ar

I quite thoroughly disagree with this doomsday outlook. I've been having a ball with watching and participating in the TikTok community's embrace of a new AI art filter. Its adoption has been massive, and I presume massively expensive to operate. That said, my chief observation is that it is a lovely idea factory and little more. There were some deeply moving pieces that got generated from some of my input prompts around neurodivergence. They weren't quite right, but still profound to me. After seeing them, I've started looking for somebody I could commission to use them as a starting point to create a real art piece, something I've never even considered before. I would approach said artist and say here is this low res image, here are some things I do and do not like about it, here's what it means to me, and here's some money. With this, I'm now engaged as a creator, curator ,collaborator, and patron in a world I'd never considered participating in. Not only do I think this creates economic opportunity for artists who would like to work in such a capacity, it also gives way to new ideas for those who would react and reject this paradigm. Technology always has had a way of breathing new life into human endeavors. Sure, horses are no longer the primary drivers of transportation and agriculture, but equestrianism is a $100 billion industry in the US, growing 5% a year with an increasingly diverse pool of participation. The cruel and commodified low end of the sector is long gone, but it remains as a passionate and vibrant field. I expect the same from AI in all the fields it touches.