Art is good or bad if it expresses what the artist wants it to express or not. It is not strictly a matter of quality / fidelity. It is terribly difficult to produce good art through the common chat interface used to create art with AI. Tools that allow iterative refinement like ComfyUI are far more capable for allowing people to create art with AI, but they are also far more capable at producing something that is low quality.

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Oh, and even more aptly, do you remember "spinning"? This was a manual job, if you can imagine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

I think AI will raise the floor, which is sort of good.

That will make things a LOT more unequal. When everyone is very mediocre, the few that stand out, stand our a lot more, and since everyone is used to the sameness, they'll reward difference a lot more.

AI generative output seems to have similar output to when you flood a creative field with capital and demand returns off a flourishing subgenre. A lot of mediocrity from trying to simulate that magic with a great lack of inspiration.

Mostly they were producing nothing, which is certainly better than AI “art”.

I don't think "AI" will either improve or worsen your average tv series.

The question is, will the samey bland series peddlers pass the cost savings on to whoever likes that kind of stuff?

There were bad hamburgers before McDonalds started to mass produce them, but now everyone is eating slop.