>There is so much doomsay around these image generation AIs and I don't really understand it. Did photographs devalue painters? Did digital art devalue painters? Did movies devalue theater? Did YouTube videos devalue cinematographers? Did Twitch streams or TikTok videos devalue YouTubers?

All of those are tools which did not lead to potentially the same final product produced for a miniature fraction of the labor costs.

AI composition is generally pretty shit. If (more like when) it becomes better, we will be having the exact same argument regarding composers.