Is there a difference between a handmade leather jacket and a factory made coat? Or a difference between a bottle of 12 year scotch and a random bottle of Johnny Walker?

If you don’t notice a difference, then to you there IS no difference. And I would honestly say that to that person, they shouldn’t bother getting the ‘premium’ item. (I can’t tell the difference between Johnny Walker and good scotch, for instance…)

But if you DO notice a difference, then it might be worth the extra to you. Because it’s luxury. That’s what luxury is; a bit better, a bit nicer, for a bigger pricetag.

AI art will, for the foreseeable future, be derived from human art and be a synthesis of artwork that is already in existence. That’s not a bad thing! It puts random art in the hands of the people, much like mass production has done for other luxury goods. But it also means that art for arts sake (art that is done by artists to make a statement, to communicate emotion, to FEEL) will become a luxury item even more so than it is now.