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Yes, much in the same way that hiring someone to cater a dinner party makes me a great chef.

(edit to give some body to my comment above:

Hosting a great dinner party is hard work and requires coordination between food, decor, seasonality, people attending, etc. It is akin to a director coordinating the parts of a film. So I do think hosting a good dinner party can count as artistic expression.

I don't know the parent comment's intended reading, but I was reacting to the idea that typing a Sora prompt makes someone a good artist. If the parent means instead that AI allows people to coordinate multiple media in a broader expression that was not possible otherwise, then I fully agree.

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Not an apt analogy.

I didn't say "AI art makes you a great artist" I said it helps you make great art

Tools allow people to express themselves at a higher aesthetic level without needing the extreme technical skills.

Great art ≠ pretty pictures

So everyone at your dinner party gets to eat "better" food? Unless the point of the party was for you to cook then it's an improved experience.

GenAI is a tool that lets creators of one medium expand to other mediums without much effort. Like having transcripts auto-generated for a visual podcast, just in the other direction. Low budget (or amateur) poems/songs can turn into short videos; or replace generic album art with better quality generic album art.

The draw will be the primary medium, the rest will just be an extra bonus.

Of course it is an improved experience, but I don't then get to say that I'm a good cook.

I've updated my comment to explain my view, which I think closely aligns with yours.

It's the samr discussion we had long ago when digital cameras cane abouut and image editing became easy and commonplace. Yes, there is a lot of badly edited stuff around now. For example, most meme images on social media are made by putting new captions on old content, and maybe changing a few details about the rest of the image. No, photographers didn't become obsolete. They professionalized.

Photographers totally became obsolete.

When cameras were harder to use, you had national geographic taking you all over the world to photograph different locations because only you and a handful of people knew how to take a picture properly. Now you just hire a local person with a camera to go take the picture you want since it’s much easier to use a camera.

You had people doing photography for ads, now stock photography will do for most brands.

You had people buy high school portraits, I am not sure if people buy those anymore, but a picture of what you looked like in high school is worth a lot less when you can take a selfie every other day.

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