The problem isn't art, it's discovery. There's more new original art being made and published right now than ever before in history. I'm in art school so I see

The problem isn't art, it's discovery. There's more new original art being made and published right now than ever before in history. I'm in art school so I see a lot of it. Sure, there's a lot more chaff to cut through than there was when publishing was almost exclusively controlled by large corporations, but it's there. Art that isn't recycled is almost always an illusion caused by your not being familiar with the things it was remixing. Nobody pulls things out of thin air. Even whacked-out acid trip visions were molded by our cultural experiences and aesthetic. While there are a few people who make large shifts in their artform-- e.g. Jackson Pollock, Jimi Hendrix, and Antoine Carême-- but a) they were still making incremental progress, and b) you'd have a pretty limited set of things to choose from for your entertainment. PS Edit: Right now AI-generated art is novel, but it has far less potential to meaningfully advance art as time progresses. It will mimic what it sees, but it won't see anything that a creative cultural avant-garde doesn't produce first, and as long as real people are doing it first, there will be eyes that want to see it before an AI algorithm waters it down into some conceptual amalgam of its real form. That probably includes commercial entities who are deliberately trying to make themselves stand out.