[akprasad]

Yes, much in the same way that hiring someone to cater a dinner party makes me a great chef.

(edit to give some body to my comment above:

Hosting a great dinner party is hard work and requires coordination between food, decor, seasonality, people attending, etc. It is akin to a director coordinating the parts of a film. So I do think hosting a good dinner party can count as artistic expression.

I don't know the parent comment's intended reading, but I was reacting to the idea that typing a Sora prompt makes someone a good artist. If the parent means instead that AI allows people to coordinate multiple media in a broader expression that was not possible otherwise, then I fully agree.

)

[atleastoptimal]

Not an apt analogy.

I didn't say "AI art makes you a great artist" I said it helps you make great art

Tools allow people to express themselves at a higher aesthetic level without needing the extreme technical skills.

[tzarko]

Great art ≠ pretty pictures

[throw_nbvc1234]

So everyone at your dinner party gets to eat "better" food? Unless the point of the party was for you to cook then it's an improved experience.

GenAI is a tool that lets creators of one medium expand to other mediums without much effort. Like having transcripts auto-generated for a visual podcast, just in the other direction. Low budget (or amateur) poems/songs can turn into short videos; or replace generic album art with better quality generic album art.

The draw will be the primary medium, the rest will just be an extra bonus.

[akprasad]

Of course it is an improved experience, but I don't then get to say that I'm a good cook.

I've updated my comment to explain my view, which I think closely aligns with yours.

[samus]

It's the samr discussion we had long ago when digital cameras cane abouut and image editing became easy and commonplace. Yes, there is a lot of badly edited stuff around now. For example, most meme images on social media are made by putting new captions on old content, and maybe changing a few details about the rest of the image. No, photographers didn't become obsolete. They professionalized.

[great_psy]

Photographers totally became obsolete.

When cameras were harder to use, you had national geographic taking you all over the world to photograph different locations because only you and a handful of people knew how to take a picture properly. Now you just hire a local person with a camera to go take the picture you want since it’s much easier to use a camera.

You had people doing photography for ads, now stock photography will do for most brands.

You had people buy high school portraits, I am not sure if people buy those anymore, but a picture of what you looked like in high school is worth a lot less when you can take a selfie every other day.