All of it seems aimed at putting artists out of work, though. When do we start aiming new AI and putting, say, maybe lobbyists or oil tycoons out of business?

Who writes the prompts? Who sifts through unusable results, to pick out the good ones?

An intern, maybe. Definitely not someone who trained all their life to do art for a living.

I’ve noticed that just about everyone I see defending this tech against possible ramifications for artists are usually… not artists.

When you break formula and release the cool beasts from scary isolated environments, you get shit like the end of The Lost World and all of JW: Dominion