This is the “nothing ever happens,” argument - specifically, it’s the “if we make our view so broad and avoid any specifics at all everything is always the same,” version.
Of course, human creativity will exist as long as humans do, but it can be crushed to a microcosm of what it is now, marginal, individual, silenced, rare. The culture industries - film, tv, music, mass literature, comics, etc - the pop art that unites us, that spurs future cultural output, that sparks social change - that’s all under attack. Executives and media owners know it’s cheaper, quicker, simpler not to deal with creatives, to dismiss the entire idea of creativity. On a more immediate level, the entire idea that AI “artistic” output is anything other then slop is an assault on the idea that art is more then a series of lines or letters or colors, that humans put something meaningful into it.
“Hollywood is cooked,” he screams, as he prompts the AI to show Superman fighting Goku because he’s mad Wonder Man was race-swapped.
This all ignores, of course, the degree to which AI is replacing the writing and reading and researching and thinking that is the soil from which meaningful creativity grows.
“Hey Grok, why is Citizen Kane good?” she asks so she doesn’t have to watch it.
