Will the difference between mass-produced glossy garbage and unique results of sustained human effort and productivity become ever more pronounced, leading to a massive increase in the value of the latter in the eyes of not just connoiseurs, but the masses as well?
It’s an interesting question, but I’m honestly not sure I see it. You always had plenty of people wanting to become artists and graphic designers and the like, the whole ‘starving artist’ trope exists for a reason.
Ai has taken a lot of that work and I think that isn’t going to reverse. The AI will get better. It will get harder to tell human art from AI art.
The only way that masses are going to have an opinion is if using AI becomes taboo. I think we might be bordering on that in some circles but it’s not a full threshold yet and I don’t think it will become that.