Those techniques have already been taught to the AI. I’m using such tools right now. It’s still rough, but I have no doubt they’ll improve them greatly soon. We’re not quite at the point I’m describing but I think it’s coming soon.

I think what you’re missing is how do you drive the AI? It’s still a tool. A piece of software. You have to tell it what to do. And in order to tell it what to do, you need to know what you’re looking for.

Like technically speaking anyone can paint. Just take a brush and some oils and spread it on the canvas. But that won’t be very good. So you need to spend decades learning all sorts of art topics.

Now, an AI already knows that stuff. So you could technically tell it to just make you a painting. And for sure it’ll spit out a better painting than what you as an unskilled person can produce. And I’m sure it’ll look awesome to you. But how will you gauge if it’s actually good? You don’t know anything about painting. For all you know this could be trash.

Now if all you’re doing is making stuff for self-expression and just to make stuff then who cares. Knock yourself out.

But if you’re making a movie, or a video-game, or a comic book, etc, then it has to actually be good. People need to want to watch it. If you don’t know what you’re doing then all you’ll get is a messy pile that nobody wants to watch.

This happens all the time now too. They take some random director and producer that don’t know wtf they’re doing, give them a budget, and they make some POS movie that looks nice but falls completely flat. Then it fails at the box office, and they complain that the “haters” ruined it. No, they made a shit movie/game/whatever.

It’ll be the same thing here.