I think these AI tools might eventually make art better, but in the meantime they’ll make most professional artists redundant.
Right now most of the music that gets produced and that we’re exposed to day to day (not stuff we intentionally listen to but things we hear in ads, pharmacies, whatever) might as well be AI-generated.
When no one makes a living producing commercial trash, the chief motivation to create art will be for its own sake. The community of artists will be smaller but more devoted, maybe
