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You're missing the point of why AI output is so obnoxious.
It's like an updated version of the bullshit asymmetry principle: it takes considerably more time and energy to parse AI-produced works (art, text, music etc) than it does for traditional low-quality low-effort shit, because it's produced in large quantities and has a superficial look of being professionally produced.
AI hasn't made shit artists better, but it has enabled them to suck all the oxygen out of the room and make the process of seeking and enjoying good art intractable and infuriating. It also hasn't made good artists better either, because good artists are already better than AI.
I agree that this is a concern, but it's a problem already solved. Do you read every single post on Lemmy? How do you deal with all the garbage, low effort posts?
And while you're focusing on the negative aspects of AI, you might consider the flip side of it. How many good, creative ideas died on the vine because the person who came up with the idea lacked the technical skill to implement it?
I understand that it might not seem this way for those people who attempt to make money on their technical skill, but lowering the bar between idea to implementation is an overall benefit to culture.
I disagree. Anyone working in a skilled profession can attest to the number of people who come up with them saying that they have this great idea for you to work on for free. It's never a great idea. We have our own great ideas, and that's often the motivator for acquiring new skills to make that idea possible.
Lowering the bar between idea and implementation, in a capitalist, surveillance/attention-based, target-marketed world is further incentivizes low-effort, high-engagement practices and likely shrinks the space for high-effort markets.
Meanwhile the tools "lowering the bar" are rent-only or need hardware that is quickly becoming unaffordable. Silicon Valley's only play is enshittification. If it actually is successful it's only a matter of time before they switch from growth mode to profit mode and it's google search all over again but this time you're paying a monthly fee. If you want to have an idea of how that works out ask an adobe user-- and those were products that were already profitable. There is no way people are willing to pay the actual cost of ai, it will need to be extracted. The rest is externalities.