Planet ‘New Musk’ probably won’t be for me. The artist is necessary for creating anything legitimately new that doesn’t suck. The critic is necessary to filter

Planet ‘New Musk’ probably won’t be for me. The artist is necessary for creating anything legitimately new that doesn’t suck. The critic is necessary to filter out all the crap the AI would be happy to create. Look at all these examples where the text prompts literally say which artist’s visual style to copy. Making derivative artwork is in the process of becoming completely commoditized. That’s good in the sense that it allows novices to create visual content that they previously could only imagine (presuming they can adequately describe it). But this also means the half-life for visual imitation will be drastically shortened, because even viral new styles will be done to death by artful copies in a matter of weeks. Is XKCD art? Visually unchallenging (?), but certainly creative and thought provoking. What we’re mostly talking about at this point is giving kids (and some adults) who can’t draw well yet a chance to express what’s in their heads onto the page.