As someone who works in this space professionally, my face and my palm have never been closer. I have no problem with the project-- research is research and it'

As someone who works in this space professionally, my face and my palm have never been closer. I have no problem with the project-- research is research and it's not like they're trying to pass this off as a 'solved problem'-- but among a specific subset of tech folks, AI image tools arouse this completely unwarranted "we've solved art" bravado. It inspires them to arrogantly-- sometimes even imperiously-- throw around these baseless assumptions about basic art principles. I worked in software for a long time and I know hubris in software development is nothing new, and can even sometimes be beneficial, but I'm not sure I've ever seen such an intense collective overconfidence in a single subject within the software world.