"without ai, how can ordinary people do this?!?" asks the tech pundit about a skill many ordinary people have learned
I think originally I wrote this in response to a slop version of the werehouse meme. One commenter remarked how it was great AI exists because nobody would have made this kind of picture before, but the meme was actually a plagiarised version of a photochopped meme that has been around for several years.
It's also a common refrain around a lot of AI booster circles. "Without AI, who would be making apps?". "Without AI, how can you make music!". "AI is democratising art because it was so hard before!". Etcetcetc