I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he is showing the cool things he can make with it. // At some point we’ll have to confront the elite/commoner conflict between experts and goofballs using new tools to ape the experts.
There was a huge chunk of artists who were held back from prolific output by reasons solved by AI, and they are not afraid to use it, and the cultural consequences will be massive.
Also related: humans still making great internet videos.