the obvious disconnect to me has been that we compare DALLE and midjourney results to what we human-generated art used to look like on earlier Unreal Engine. This is what human generated art looks like now:
Well, as TFA and the comment you replied to point out, the bar for AI-generated art isn't to compete with top-tier human talent. There are many other use-cases.
Seems like you meant to reply to a comment that claimed otherwise.
Would anyone in 1972, even Ed Catmull himself, be able to imagine the Youtube video you linked, broadcast globally, for free.
I think these tools are going to be big, but I feel the whole AI thing actually detracts from it. I'd rather think of it like tracing paper or photography than as a replacement for artists.
https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw