The issue with generative AI cannot be addressed without going into deep political discussions about the way we distribute wealth in our societies. This would probably result in debates not suited for the Nexus.

Personally, I would caution people from blaming the technology itself though, or the idea that we built a machine that learns by seeing. How do humans grow and learn, if not by seeing endless examples of what others have created before them? Every human artist is a product of every human artist who came before.

Does putting a prompt into a machine and seeing what it spits out qualify as 'art'? If that's where it begins and ends, then probably not. Is the topic better suited for the Science forum? Yes.

Because the real wonder is the fact that we have these machines... I would love to see more talk about connectionism (the scientific / engineering paradigm that resulted in GANs in the first place), about the sheer wonder that these machines hallucinate very similarly to humans, about, you know, the possibility that we have the knowledge to build something akin to a golem of homonculus from the dreams of mages of old.

Neural networks are beautiful.

It's corporations using them to further their greed that is ugly.