Incisive analysis! It's great how you get down to the nuts and bolts constituents of the AI/creative differences.
I'm fascinated by the people and portions of society who embrace AI.
Consider user manuals for consumer tech products, which are usually inadequate. A tech writer I've known for many years often talked about being flogged to pump out documentation to meet unrealistic deadlines, so he couldn't take time to do a good job. Consequently, his product was poor.
Did management care? Of course not. They had met their targets, and they couldn't tell a good manual from a bad manual anyway.
And only some consumers who studied and tried to use the manuals could discern the difference. Others never read the manuals, or in their floundering blamed the product or themselves and not the manual, and in any event could not for whatever reason pinpoint the manual's failures.
Management wouldn't care, because consumer dissatisfaction was too diffuse to pinpoint the documentation. And their competitors were doing the same thing and were in the same jam, so they all couldn't tell sweep it under the rug.
Let's say only 10-20% of people are in a position to spot the AI/human differences. That 10-20% is not in management, and that 10-20% is too small a segment to make an impact.
In that environment, society consumes AI the way society consumes junk culture. People are good with it because they can't tell the difference, it's all the same.
The (still-employed) workers are glad to have AI crank out the slop they would have to spend hours cranking.
The 80-90% have always been producing sub-par cultural products -- products no better than what AI can produce. Listen to people talk at all levels of society, or read what they write. In a way, they have always been diluting culture.
Now, with AI, they can dilute the culture even more -- cranking out more cheap product because AI lets them do it faster.
Picassos will continue to create, but their work will be a smaller percentage of the art produced, so we'll have to work a little harder to find it, and the 80-90% will find it easier to dismiss.
