@matigo Interesting what you said about evolution of skill and style. About things being "disposable before the ink dries", I think that ties into whether the beholder assigns value to those things. Everyone has different things that they value and cherish.
I'm not sure I agree that society values almost nothing. People value different things, and although those things may change as humanity progresses, people will always find something that they deem important in their lives, whether it be love, security, freedom, convenience or whatnot. People who value quality will tend to shy away from the bread-and-butter attempts of AI to offer creative solutions. For instance, there's an art discussion that I follow on X, and people typically present various images of the art they saw or made and elicit comments. Some of it is clearly AI; some of it is of questionable origin. The interesting thing is that there tends to be a certain number of people who question whether the work of art was generated by a human or by AI. They apparently have enough taste and good sense to distinguish the two, or to at least know when it is right to doubt. Admittedly, the number of people who bother to question it is far less than those who just applaud the art for what it seems to be, but I think this shows that there are still people out there who value work that was done by humans.
Granted, even with AI art, there generally has to be a starting point, like a text prompt driven by a human or a reference work that is to be used when constructing the derivative work. I recently met a video artist who said that she primarily uses AI to create her work, and so has to keep up like crazy with all the latest AI technologies and software to do so. My gut reaction was, "this can't be any good", but if it is human-initiated, human-produced and the outcome was shaped by a human, could it not be as valid as a video work that was made completely by humans? Maybe that's the kind of thing you were referring to when you said, "is there anything inherently wrong with AI? I don't think so." I would think, though, that this AI video artist would have a tough time differentiating her product, if it was primarily generated by AI tools and everybody is using those tools now. She will have to work hard on creative convincing content that transcends the tools, I would think.
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