Lots of great content in that comment, thank you! I appreciate your perspective — the art world isn’t something I know as much about as you clearly do.

My job involves text production — and that’s a world that absolutely is just starting to become aware of the tsunami that’s coming. The speed that the AI is improving is absolutely incredible — and, perhaps because I’m not an expert, I see no reason why the artistic AIs can’t also rapidly improve.

I think we’re done here. I wish you well — I’m going to move on and talk to other people. Bye.

Very interesting comment, thanks for your time. I do “get” that a masterpiece has a whole story and context behind it — I’m not disputing that Van Gogh, Shakespeare, and Beethoven will still be revered for centuries to come.

I think this AI poses a much more direct threat to people lower in the art world’s pyramid than world-class geniuses — jobbing creative designers, for example, should be concerned and should take the challenges posed by AI more seriously than I think many of them do. A lot of art is absolutely created to have generic pretty things to put in your house.

I dispute the assumption many of the commentators made that they could easily distinguish AI and human art.

I don't think people are "waiting to be woken" -- I'm just surprised the technology is so quickly dismissed.

The people commenting on this article are a wide range of people, as wide a range as I'm likely to be able to access in one place. They are not a monolithic block. And judging by the quality of some of the language people have used in the comments, many of them are clearly highly educated and intelligent.