This isn’t even a bad thing on its own, the real problem is always the authority of those in control.

The world is getting too complex to be managed by humans anyway, the sooner we get an all knowing super AI government that machine learns through a weekly census, the better

For sure, I completely agree. It’s not ‘right’ (? Perhaps wrong word) but it’s just one of many industries that will be majorly disrupted by AI, albeit one that we all rightfully hold very close to our hearts - in our capitalist world, this is clearly now unavoidable for the reasons you’ve stated, every penny counts when it’s time for a corporation to get artsy.

EDIT: adding to this, I just want to emphasise how dearly humans hold art in their hearts, and when coupling this with the idea that perhaps (or maybe just me) art wasn’t what people were probably expecting to be the first major public victim of AI (over vehicles, law, accounting etc), I think this explains the strong public response.

I do get your point, but at the same time, are we not already past the point of human comprehension? Google Images for example, search for anything and put ‘art’ at the end, at this moment in time (or at least a year or so ago) the vast majority of the uncountable search results would be human made digital art, or an image thereof - my point being, I still feel we’ve already reached that point in my opinion, AI will definitely add to that 100x over, but it’s already incomprehensible volume.

I’m just a filthy casual philosophy wise, but I’m super interested in postmodern ideas; I’ve heard people refer to the present day as ‘The End of History’ - culture has disintegrated into infinite niche groups / bespoke experience for each individual, all music is a remix, rehash, or is fundamentally unoriginal at its core, and I think what we’re describing here is just another symptom of the world we’ve been delivered to, culture wise - quite mind blowing that we’ve born now to witness such profound changes to everything.

I think human made art will always hold intrinsic value, they’ll be 2 distinct camps and human art will always be more ‘valuable’.

That, and, just like human art, only the best of the best AI art will be of any value to people.

I would argue that there’s already a virtually infinite mass of human made art in the world, by virtue of the explosion in population over the last generation or so. The argument that AI will flood the world with endless amounts of tat I find to be a bit weak, I think we’re already at that point?

I feel like this is a sign of things to come for sure. Humans, the supreme rulers of the planet, and increasingly the guardians / managers of every aspect of nature on Earth. Bee sized, autonomous drones could theoretically also pick up the slack, even over protecting real bees, I’m sure the market will decide on that one.