I can create and explore realities using my imagination alone, though. I personally don't think having it become actual 2d or 3d art will have a lasting impact. It might be fun for a while, but it will get old.

It's kind of like your imagination on steroids as the system creates worlds using you imagination as the seed and augments it with summation of all the human creations used to train the network. Give Stable Diffusion a sentence for example, it will create something way beyond what you could of imagined and/or created on your own.

Stable diffusion is impressive, but still is a subset of what one _can_ imagine.

I think it will encourage novel ideas in all forms of art. In other words, genuinely new styles and expression will be scarce, because there wasn't thousands of forms of it to train a model on yet.

We will also adjust to AI generated art like have other creative technologies and the novelty will wear off. We will become good at identifying AI generated art and think of it as cheap.

Still, extremely exciting.

> Do we get lost in it?

That is one hypothesis for the fermi paradox, Kardashev scale, and the great filter. At some point all civilizations essentially create infinite dreams/thoughts/Matrix style tech in where we all will retreat inward and have an infinite world to play with and essentially become gods in a virtual reality.

Nobody would be interested in it really, since everyone (would have) (edit) their own thing they want others to check out. It's like fan fiction collections online, or the 80% of deviantart that you really don't want to spend time with - only now everything looks hollywood polished.

this probably already all happened before mate