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I think a bit of the "AI is democratizing art" argument is trying to avoid the ugly truth that to get good at anything you have to do a lot of it. I grew up "knowing" I was a good writer, but I really wasn't until about 700k words, and it took reading hours of scripts to really have a voice

The world is being taken over by people who want to be rich and beloved but don’t feel like they need to be great at anything in particular.

Everybody wants to be the “It’s my genius vision, you figure it out how to make it happen” guy, not the guy who has to actually figure it out. And all the bloodless merciless performance metrics fall on the latter and never the former.