AI becomes a tool for artists to use - generative art has been around for a long time, now that particular genre of art will presumably become much more prominent.

For anyone pondering such questions, I would recommend reading "The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art" - https://thegradient.pub/the-past-present-and-future-of-ai-ar...

Wouldn't it be more like, "AI becomes an artist for people to use"? Will we have people distinguished as "artists" if the ability to make awesome art becomes available to everybody?

AI still needs the text prompt to know what to generate. Hence the human who provides the prompt is still the artist, just like a photographer finds an aesthetically interesting spot to take the image with their camera. Cameras make images, humans using cameras make art. Granted, this is not quite 1-1 with AI art, but still the idea is the same. If anything the flood of AI images will only require artists to go beyond what is possible with these text->image kinds of things, of which there is no shortage.

I think you’ll see more of a focus on the artist themselves. These images are nice, but they have basically zero narrative value.

This is really already the case, actually. Most artworks have “value” because they have a compelling narrative, not because they look pretty. So I think we can expect future artists to really emphasize their background, life story, process of making the art, etc. All things that cannot be done by a machine.

I expect that interactive art will be huge. Game design gets fascinating, for example.

I seem to recall an XKCD that I cannot find, but the premise goes like:

When you have a digital display of pixels, if you randomly color pixels at 24 fps then you will eventually display every movie that can be or will ever be made, powerset notwithstanding. This can also be tied to digital audio.

In short, while mind-blowingly large, the space of display through digital means is finite.

Sounds a bit like the tower of babel of jorge borges. I imagine most of the videos would be complete random nonsense.

I think an AI infused future is going to become increasingly more absurd and surreal, it will lead to a kind of creative and cultural nihilism, if that's the right term.

Like the value of originality will become meaningless.

The artist or the audience would have to ultimately select something from all that automated originality.