AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people

I’ve been saying it for a bit. AI pushes down the floor, it doesn’t raise the ceiling. You’re going to pay more for what you had before, that’s the whole business model.

Turns out putting sawdust into our rice krispies made people stop buying our product.

Apparently they want the “rice premium”.

Defining non-AI art as having a ‘human premium’ assumes that AI art is in any way the same thing. Slop might be cheaper than art, but it’s not the same thing.

Can someone tell me what the point of this article is? Got halfway through and everything could have been summarized with:

People hate slop.

It is known, brother.

I don’t buy this. I think this take is tech-washing the problem.