AI won’t be stopped any more than the printing press and the internet before it. The machines aren’t the enemy. The owners are.
There’s a hype machine that is trying to shoehorn AI into places where it isn’t mature enough currently. Which is why the rush to market is a problem.
The owners of the machine think the machine can do more than it is capable of. This leads to the enshittification of the product. It is the customer that suffers.
In terms of art content, there’s already a tonne of it. WAY MORE than audiences even want to consume. If anything, AI is pouring more shit into an overflowing cup.
The machine has been abused because the owner doesn’t understand where the value resides.
In the meantime it’s burning a lot of fossil fuels to make shit.
It’s based on the human decisions behind using the tool which is AI. The creative choices from the human is what makes it art. If there’s absolute zero human involvement, it’s just an audience observing a chaotic result of nature.
If the AI user doesn’t respect the craft, then they don’t make informed artistic choices. Hence the result is shit.
AI is more like the canvas at the moment. We haven’t been able to teach it creativity.
The other aspect of art is finding your audience. The recently deceased Michael Leunig was a political cartoonist from Australia. He drew a very simple style that AI could replicate but his art was enjoyed because it was him.