I’m curious why do you think that AI generation will plateau at its current quality level?
The output between all the major AI image synthesis tools, while impressive, is quite clearly very high dimensional interpolation, and it shares the same limitations in that space as it does the 2d space. We've already thrown insane amounts of data and compute resources at the problem and it's made the things that were done well in the past even better but doesn't move us towards solving the hard parts.
Particularly as one deals with the world of atoms, where the cost of a mistake is much higher.
There are already models that work to “aesthetically” rate images, and the results are quite promising.
To think we won’t see leaps in quality over the coming months/years is narrow sighted.
Though it's more likely in a the coming months/years people's ability ignore reality will just become stronger and we'll all believe that a person waving their 4 wiggly fingers and staring at you with strange fish eyes is hyper realism at it's finest.
We've entered the "emperor's new clothes" reality at this point, so nothing would surprise me.
But they haven't plateaued. I can go take a trip in a self-driving Cruise in San Francisco right now. I couldn't do that last year.
There's certainly a lot of room for them to improve, but the self-driving car industry is making progress.
Not happening.