The past few years' innovation in AI has roughly been split into two camps for me.

LLMs -- Awesome and useful. Disruptive, and somewhat dangerous, but probably more good than harm if we do it right.

'Generative art' (i.e. music generation, image generation, video generation) -- Why? Just why?

The 'art' is always good enough to trick most humans at a glance but clearly fake, plastic, and soulless when you look a bit closer. It has instilled somewhat of a paranoia in me when browsing images and genuinely worsened my experience consuming art on the internet overall. I've just recently found out that a jazz mix I found on YouTube and thought was pretty neat is fully AI generated, and the same happens when I browse niche artstyles on Instagram. Don't get me started on what this Sora release will do...

It changed my relationship consuming art online in general. When I see something that looks cool on the surface, my reaction is adversarial, one of suspicion. If it's recent, I default to assuming the piece is AI, and most of the time I don't have time or effort to sleuth the creator down and check. It's only been like a year, and it's already exhausting.

No one asked for AI art. I don't understand why corporations keep pushing it so much.

I'm glad someone else said this. Hopefully we can get rid of that terrible disruptive camera too.

There's some of that but it produces some cool stuff too. I mean you have these new virtual worlds like this that didn't exist before https://youtu.be/y_4Kv_Xy7vs?t=13

The video there is kind of a combination of human design and AI which produces something beyond that which either would come up with on their own.

It is like an attempt to do psychic battle over the meaning of "disruption".

"And then everyone clapped ..."

There's nothing wrong with technology going forward and this doesn't go against "creativity and art", to the contrary, it will enhance it.