> If you want anything good, yes. If you just want something ...
You don't even need AI for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_poop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet
The idea that AI isn't going to be used as a creative tool too and that it won't lead to more and better art is a defeatist, Luddite attitude.
Similarly shaped people thought that digital cameras would ruin cinema and photography.
> Short-term, this is going to funnel resources away from the people with good taste.
On the contrary - every budding film student will soon [1] be able to execute on their entire visions straight out of the gates. No decades of clawing their way to a very limited, almost impossible to reach peak.
> it might help collapse the entire "creative industry"
The studio system. Not the industry.
> new gatekeeping strategies from the wealthy and connected, and business as usual.
Creatives have more ways of building brands and followings for themselves than ever before. It's one of the largest growing sectors of the economy, and lots of people are earning livings off of it.
You'll be able to follow that steampunk vampire creator that's been missing from the world until now. Every long tail interest will be catered to. Even the most obscure and wild tastes, ideas, and designs. Stuff that would never get studio funding.
As a creative, I'm overjoyed by this. My friends and I are getting to create things we never could make before [2].
[1] This and next year.
[2] Just an inspiration / aesthetic sample, but we're making a full film: https://imgur.com/a/JNVnJIn