I think that what is missing in this discussion is the latent background that one needs to actually create "ai art" that has merit.
It is a strange combination of skills that some have developed to create styles, pipelines, techniques to create bespoke, recognizable, artistic output from these tools.
Anyone who is typing a prompt into a publicly available generative model is likely not getting anything of high value from it.
I will commend parascene project for trying to court this special sort of advanced users who can create custom pipelines and then connect it to the parascene system for anyone to use.
That process, the implied skills to create a custom generator and host it, can all be broken down so that more people can do it, but I don't think enough people realize it is even something they can do. We are so trained to be consumers of ai services.
