Outside a bubble what people are willing to pay is based on supply and demand.
If there is a large supply of basic AI art, their will always be a demand of more professional, curated AI art, and AI art worked on manually.
These public AI models get juiced out, people grow ilcontent with the limitations. Real coders and artist now have to step forward to advance the market.
Sorry it's a lot to read, I'll reply better when I'm home, I just took a shot at one thing I read.
[@PUBLIQclopAccountant](/forums/art/topics/art-is-dead-long-live-ai?post_id=5362618#post_5362618)
Oh yeah, the prompting is more like coding and gambling than anything resembling natural language. After you build the model you still got to spam it with all the technobabble, and basically learn how the particular model responds to all this stuff. Generating a deliberate image with AI still takes hours to days