I'm surprised by the comments on this topic. The art generated by AI is not the product. AI generation is a tool that artists (and non artists to some extent) can use to take away a lot of the tedium. I think of it as AI assisted art. My bets on second order consequences: 1. 3D world generation based on prompts 2. Ambient music and sounds 3. Character modeling 4. And yes, interactive storytelling. Imagine getting the…
What AI takes away is all the hard work and application of talent that happens between articulating "ghost ship flying over futuristic city under moonlight" and having a quality picture of exactly that before your eyes.
That talent and work, with years of practice behind it, is the bulk of what art is.
Not just the talent to execute, but creativity. The AI has a deep imagination, or a facsimile there of, which is being relied upon. For the same prompt, it can generate a vast stream of completely different pictures incorporating different concepts in different ways.
There is still tedium: deciding which of the 200 such pictures that were generated for you do you go with.
Evaluating the output of AI and tweaking prompts and parameters isn't art, but more like constructive art criticism.
If a person A were giving prompts and changing requirements to another person B who produces successive refinements of a picture, B would be readily identified as the artist and not A.
Here is how an artist could use AI: use it to generate ideas, and then incorporate them into their own work.