The sell was being able to churn out generated art that captures the artistic vision of the one giving the prompt without going through hours worth of labor creating them. What happened is a lot of users who never lifted a pencil created social media art accounts and spammed their way into someone else's feed. 

Given the algorithm favors creators that post at regular intervals using content that's clickbait material, it's not that difficult to imagine how these accounts outpace artists that have to spend hours creating their content with so little pay off for it. 

There came a point when some equilibrium was established where the hype died down but the accounts that took advantage of the success were big enough to keep regularly farming some clicks compared to those that started late and faded into obscurity. I mean, people were now used to seeing AI generated images everywhere so now it became less special compared to old school artists that don't do AI art. 

There's a reason why some AI artists try so hard to pretend they made something with their own imagination from scratch, because they'll have less potential patrons if people knew their art skills were just propped up by typing prompts through a machine. 

It goes back to that natural inclination to avoid purchasing luxury products that lack personal touch. It looks good but it doesn't really have a story or stands on its own soul. That's what I think whenever I see a generated AI image that caught my attention. Once those seconds of amazement fade, you only have an image that's factory made. Compare the same stylized image but created by artists from scratch and they even showed a time lapse video of the process, now you get a finished product, a personality behind it, and a story too.

I don't think AI programs will stop being a thing since the images they churn out become more sophisticated and getting more difficult to tell for an inexperienced eye. But the main market for these programs are artists that try to cater to clients that want products less to do with AI. I know this is oversimplifying things when there are actually patrons or AI art out there. 

I just think to myself, "Would I actually buy a luxury item that's supposed to be personalized if it's just done by prompts?" wouldn't it be better if I just used the program and cut off the middle man fat fingering those prompts from the equation?

How about AI written novels that were supposed to be made by real writers as part of the ad? would people really want to slap the "made with AI" notice on their books? 

Too many AI products from AI creators but not really a lot of demand for their products unless it's repackaged as organically made.

This post was inspired from socmed browsing under the art category and seeing a coworker use AI to "write" their letters. I imagined the recipient of those letters to also use AI to write a response just to sound formal. 

Thanks for your time. 

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