Welllll, I wouldn't go fully that far either. There's two kinds of power here, power of some monster megacorp. Probably bad. But also a startup not wanting to pay an artist for their skill and taste... I'd say isn't the same power dynamic. If anything this is actually the part of AI I'm most worried about.

Because I think there is value in freeing people up to pursue their interests on the one hand, but on the other hand if there's no collaboration between people at all, and everyone does their own thing and relies on the machine to fill in the rest... that I think is actually a major risk to humanity.

As in, if the musician uses AI to make album art for their music, and the indie filmmaker uses AI to make music for their score, and the screenwriter uses AI to make a video from their script, and a videogame programmer uses AI to write their dialog, and on and on, we end up with a lot of people "freed up" from depending on others, but we also absolutely shred any sort of community or cooperation and the whole of human expression becomes a hub-and-spoke with the AI at the centre of all things rather than a web of collaboration. And I think that's a risk of a different kind.

But each step, each use, one by one, feels like "well why shouldn't I.. just this once" 😉