"There is a sense where AI/ML amounts to a parasitic use of previously existing culture." Spot on. I've been thinking about this, and you're the first person I

"There is a sense where AI/ML amounts to a parasitic use of previously existing culture." Spot on. I've been thinking about this, and you're the first person I've seen mention it. The dystopia is that we get stuck with uncreative AI that displaces most creative people. Then humanity writ large loses its inventiveness, and it's very hard to recover. I.E. if all artists move to using unstable diffusion, then who will remain to create and feed (useful) new art for unstable diffusion to consume? Who will be left to train new artists? It's like the information revolution in reverse.