I've played with them a bit. I understand at least a lot of the science behind it, and the tech is interesting, but what people seem to want to do with it is kind of boring to me. I've been working with generative art for a long time, but for some reason this doesn't really move me the way that far less technically impressive stuff does.

I'm especially bored with the "Will AI replace artists?" breathlessness. It's tedious. Of course not. These tools are each like an artist in and of themselves. Did Picasso replace Rembrandt? Did Warhol replace Picasso? Nah. No AI will create what I'd create, or what Takashi Murakami would create, or any given high school kid with a paintbrush.

If all you think art is is being able to complete a commission, then sure, you'd probably see this as replacing what you think the purpose of an artist is. But you'd be wrong, and wrong in such a boring way that it's not worth debating.

Even if these AIs started generating their own ideas, it would be amazing and fascinating and worth celebrating, but it's not replacing anything. Just adding something new and cool into the world.