> While I know art AI's make beautiful renderings, to me, their potential is squandered on the lazy. Getting more into this, AI art could be so much more if used as a tool. It could do amazing things like generating real-world textures allowing every tree in a game to be unique. But as it stands people seem so much more interested in letting AI do the work for them, instead of letting AI enhance the work they already have done.

This is the main thing that sticks out to me about the AI art revolution, in terms of how it'll really change the game. People are laser-focused on the idea of AI creating bespoke art pieces in their entirety. But a lot of art; be it illustration, animation, game design, comics, etc. contains a lot of tedious, repetitive "art <space> work" that is only tangential to the artists' creative vision and could automated by tech like this.

Another example would be something like a comic book, manga, or animated series. Where the artist designs the world and art style, draws out the characters and their unique looks etc. But then is able to use AI to rapidly generate back-drops or background characters that fit into their specific style. Allowing them to focus on the more specific, key, creative segments of the work.

This could drop the cost and massively increase the accessibility for mediums that currently require numerous tedious hours to produce an incredibly small amount of content, or huge teams of creatives made to do grunt work.