> For the record, I find your comments about the future to be incredibly pessimistic. The advent of AI has allowed a lot more people to be creative without needing to dedicate hundreds of hours to it. It's not all about money. A lot of community models out there, for example, are free in both meanings of the word.

And I read this whole portion as incredibly naive and idealistic. Wow, you can click a button and get some shitty artwork and some robotic copy text, incredible. And you know how this is being used right now, which is only going to get worse as this tech matures? Spammers have an easier time than ever flooding the frontpage of every search engine with machine generated garbage whose sole purpose is to trick people into interacting with it. Scammers can generate infinite fake but convincing material with which to target everyone and trick them. Oh but it's okay, you can click a button and get some pictures!

Let's also just ignore for a moment what these AI Shenanigans will actually lead to down the line, which is the mass replacement of anyone and everyone possible for the sake of lining the pockets of some psychopathic C-suite whose 1 and only worry in the world is how to make the maximum possible amount of money. We're already living in a world where some shitty language model is examining every letter in everything you post and decides whether it's a no-no for the corporation controlling it before banning you with no recourse, this is only going to get worse and worse and soon enough will start flooding into real life, where the course of entire lives will be decided by some decentralized black box. All with 0 recourse, and 0 consequences for the sociopaths that implemented these things in the first place.

Yeah that's some real hopeful future we're looking at, all so that talentless people can click on a button and get a picture out of it. Such "progress" indeed.