Raw LLM Responses

As both a historian and someone who is interested in the business and logistics side of AI, the idea that [x thing], let alone AI art, is inevitable is total nonsense. Human society is the most complex system on Earth, maybe even in the universe, and if you know how systems work, you know that even minor changes in conditions can cause drastic changes in outcomes. It's like those physics simulations where the initial conditions are changed slightly and you watch the simulation play out totally differently, except scaled up to a much larger degree. In a system that complex it is extremely difficult if not impossible for humans to make the determination that something is inevitable. If we could then history would be a hard science, not a social science. There's also the fact that "AI art is inevitable" is not at all the same as "AI art will inevitably be pervasive." Even assuming that AI companies will become sustainably profitable and AI art becomes extremely refined it's still very possible, I would say likely, that AI art remains a niche tool rather than a replacement for human artists. This has happened with plenty of hyped-up technologies that seem paradigm shifting but turned out to have limited use. Just as one example, hovercraft are almost shorthand for technologically advanced transportation. Well, we have hovercraft right now, and the technology is rarely used outside of the military in very specific use cases. Not only did the technology underdeliver, but we also realized a bunch of non-technological reasons for limiting its use. Think about how bad drivers are today and now imagine all of them had access to flying machines? It'd be a disaster. Even in the case of objectively better technologies that could change everything they still aren't always mass adopted. Nuclear energy is the most environmentally friendly, energy dense, reliable form of energy on Earth, and there was a time that everyone thought nuclear was "inevitable." On paper, there is every reason to shift the grid to nuclear power. Almost 100 years later and there are only two countries on Earth whose energy grid is more than 50% nuclear. There's just no real way to know how things will go. Out of all the arguments for AI art, "it is inevitable" might be both the weakest and the laziest.