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Most of the AI generated "art" I've seen I'd classify as more craft than actual art. Art is supposed to express something and communicate and so far I haven't seen any AI art that really moves me or says anything insightful about experience or existence.

When I scroll through the latest highly rated work on Midjourney, for example, I'm reminded mostly of tacky poster shop stuff.

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That’s fair but I don’t understand the relevance to my comment.

Illustrators and graphic artists are in a hard spot given the commercial work they do. I’ve worked in this industry in the past and can attest that many of the contracts I executed on cared less about the originality of the output and more about the specifics of the prompt.

Generative AI is enough for a lot of clients, if the price is right, even when the output is subjectively bad.

Yes sure the kind of art that pays the rent for commercial artists is definitely seriously threatened by AI.

I'm inclined to say that AI companies should have to pay for the training data they use although that does seem to mean only companies with billion dollar warchests can train AIs.

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