The concerns are: proliferation of slop, en masse. prosperity of artists who live off their work to be rendered impossible. It's already quite dire for them.

The upside? A new generation of content creator who may profit from automation.

We never had problems creating art. In fact, what's artistic is relative to the effort involved in the creation process; also, access to technology available at the time.

To me the argument is valid. It's devaluing the skills of existing artists, and the decade long investment they likely put into their craft.

Unity enabled a flood of slop games long ago. Dreamweaver enabled countless slop websites. Photoshop delivered us heaps of slop images. Amazon delivers thousands of slop products from slop manufacturers every day.

The slop isn't coming, it arrived decades ago. The Pandora's box of slop is already open. Maybe AI widens the aperture, but if you cannot handle the discernment required to separate slop from something useful or meaningful, that is your problem.