Agreed- I forgot who coined the phrase, but someone said, eventually everything A/B tests down to pornography. You can already see how every influencer is now adopting the Stephen-A-Smith playbook of leveraging rage-clicks and divisive takes for attention and then quickly becoming audience-captured. We already have VCs paying comedians to tweet for them. You will soon be able to generate a selection of witty retorts and memes at the click of a button. At some point soon you won't need the human in the loop.

I do believe it will give leverage to many and elevate a few without means to create some really freaking awesome things. It will certainly democratize access to things like movie creation etc.

I guess I'm skeptical when I hear thought leaders say it will change up the nature of work, or free people to do "more interesting" work when there are literally billions of unemployed/underemployed people who are already free to dream up higher level types of ideas but still lack any meaningful opportunity.

I worry it will just further enrich a few monopoly corporations and upper class best able to take advantage of this, and further eliminate the middle class and commoditize everyone else to gig workers.

Maybe most of us will go back to doing manual labor work and that will at least bring plumbing and electrician prices down to sane levels. Will be interesting to watch, that's for sure. The stablediffusion and dalle2 sub-reddits are mind-blowing.

"A victorian whale smoking a cigarette, in the style of Rembrandt van Rijn" - If someone gave me this prompt I would not have imagined smoke to come out of a blowhole... it's brilliant.