The transformation is to aesthetic awareness over raw technical facility, and to "freshness" over skillful adherence to norms. The best artists will spot holes

The transformation is to aesthetic awareness over raw technical facility, and to "freshness" over skillful adherence to norms. The best artists will spot holes in the culture, and present them to us in a way that's expertly composed, artful and meticulously polished. The tools will let them do it faster, and to reach a higher peak of polish than in the past, but the artfulness will still be the artist's. Futuristic tools aren't replacing art, they're creating a substrate for a higher order of art. Collages are art, and at its most crude, this higher order art reduces to digital collages of high quality generated assets with human intention. With futuristic tools, art becomes reductive rather than constructive. To quote Michelangelo's response to how he made David: "It is simple, I just removed everything that wasn't David"