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There will be people who like the humanity of it all and seek that, same way people buy hand-wittled soup ladles or whatever.

The far more important distinction though with human art is kind of hard to find a metaphor for, since it's a unique problem of the current moment: Human art is creation.

Right now AIs by definition cannot produce anything outside of their mathematical space. It's an unbelievably huge space, but once you train the model, that's it. You've defined a box that it plays within. And that box is fully defined by humans, since it's fully trained on human output. Humans so far are the only ones who are able to actually create new things that are outside that box.

So if you believe AI is truly valuable and the stronger it gets, the more it can help the world, then humans NEED to keep producing real intelligent output to continue training the AIs. But if humans relegate creation to the AIs because it's so much easier, that stops. The AIs will then only be trained on AI output, which was trained on AI output, etc. A couple generations go by and we forget how to create, then it's over.

It's a very real possibility that the AI models of the 2020s will be the strongest in all of history. Future ones will be 1000x cheaper and faster, but not more intelligent.