Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
AI art, as it is currently, is a creativity machine, at least for those who accept putting existing concepts together is a form of creativity. What makes it an art is the human selection of results and any curation of inputs towards a goal.
Regarding product: yes, the world where people pay for generated art is unsettling, but fairly easily avoided as the underlying tools that back most of the easy-to-use websites are free to download and usually open-source. Of course it takes more effort than I put in to make the result look good, but there are those who do and you can even make your own models, if you're not happy with reusing the efforts of a big corporation which has censored its own inputs.
Scott Adams is meant to have said:
AI art, as it is currently, is a creativity machine, at least for those who accept putting existing concepts together is a form of creativity. What makes it an art is the human selection of results and any curation of inputs towards a goal.
Regarding product: yes, the world where people pay for generated art is unsettling, but fairly easily avoided as the underlying tools that back most of the easy-to-use websites are free to download and usually open-source. Of course it takes more effort than I put in to make the result look good, but there are those who do and you can even make your own models, if you're not happy with reusing the efforts of a big corporation which has censored its own inputs.