Interesting creative people will produce interesting creative output.

People with no taste will produce tasteless content.

The mountain of slop will grow.

And some of us have no intention of publishing any output whatsoever but just find the existence of these tools fascinating and inspiring.

And some of us have no intention of publishing any output and find the existence of these tools extremely worrying and problematic.

While it's indeed fascinating, part of me finds the sheer energy expenditure to be problematic, not to mention the "Hollywood is dead" innuendos.

Interesting creative people are currently creating interesting output _without_ generative AI.

These tools are fascinating, though I can't help but feel that the main benefactor after all is said and done will be venture capitalists and tech/entertainment execs.