Raw LLM Responses

Sometimes I feel like a canary in a coal mine. I try to tell people this is going to have horrible consequences and people just hand wave all concerns away. A personal example is my dnd group. Our dm likes to have character art for pcs and npcs to make things more immersive. Great! nothing wrong there, but where as she normally would've had to ask the players if anyone draws and build a _connection_ with others, she just plays around with ai till it gives something 'good enough'. Never mind the hands are nightmarish, it gets details like hair and body type wrong, its 'good enough' so that's what we use. (not to bash her though, she's a wonderful dm. Watching lost chances for quality connections and human interaction just makes me feel depressed lol) A lot of non artists don't seem to understand that people will accept a significantly lower quality product as long as it's free or almost free. And this will degrade the overall quality of art we get in our daily lives. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here though, so how about a bit of optimism? There will always be value in what we do. A machine might 'learn' and make 'good enough' things but we give things soul. We give a kind of life and dedication to our work that will always be appreciated, even if it's never as wildly appreciated as it should be. But that's being a creative in general isn't it? I think we'll survive this, even if it's a rocky road we have to walk.