AI has only proven what we already knew; that, generally, most people's ideas are generic and dull. When given the power to do ANYTHING, with no limitations (theoretically... AI output is garbage, but let's just pretend), it turns out, most people have little of value to offer. Not one person has risen up as some master storyteller, master artistic mind, enabled by AI. Not one. Why? They quibble and say it's because of bias. People just out-of-hand hate AI, the meanies 😠 but it's really because of two things. 1) the first thought you have as an artist is never that great. The ability, then, to instantly capitalize on that thought just cuts off the process of what makes something good; work. AI has no way to comprehend or match the vast permutations of thought that go into the artistic choices made over months and years as an artist builds their piece. The different considerations, the impact of different headspaces, the way personal events change how they do their work, layering together over and over and over; there's just no way to fake that richness. And audiences don't want mundane; they want things that are well-made, and well-told, and reflect the passion of the artist. They only tolerate mundane because so much of what surrounds them is mundane. But they still flock to great stories and beautiful art when it comes along. 2) people don't want completely atomized experiences; storytelling is meant to be communal. AI is the final horseman of a complete social breakdown. Real stories and actual artistry are (should be) agents of social cohesion. People *want* the latter, even as we are constantly attacked by forces of the former. It's not that complex at the end of the day.