AI is destroying capitalistic artistry. The concept of people who do nothing but art is itself a product of capitalism. Before capitalism, we all worked, and we all sang, and we all drew pictures, and we all told stories. It is only capitalism that enabled the artistic expressions of a tiny fraction of the population to drown out that of the rest of us. Well, too bad, we're taking creativity back. Your voice, your words, your pictures don't get to be ten thousand times louder than the average person's anymore and you can't stand it. Generative AI isn't ripping the soul out of the enlightenment, it's ripping the monopoly on cultural influence out of the hands of the tiny fraction of people who've completely dominated it for two hundred years.
You're stuck in a bubble. I've been there, done that, it's nonsense. Once you look beyond TV & mainstream radio, you'll find the art of the many everywhere. Small bars and clubs and gatherings and galleries and artwork and photography and even architecture. "The few" get so much marketing and confirmation for a reason ... and it's not skill ... not in music, arts, photography or architecture.
Except we live under capitalism, rather than the pre-capitalist world thee imagine. So while the democratization you imagine sounds hypothetically possible, it's a pretty big stretch. Also how exactly are you 'taking creativity back' by having a button that says 'generate'...
