art is actually the best use for genAI because the worst failure mode of art is "it looks/reads/sounds bad" rather than the worst failure mode of something with a truth value which is "dangerous misinformation that kills you"
streamers using genAI as effectively a game master for collective roleplay with their chat or some rando ERPing with a chatbot or a disabled artist being able to make something they otherwise couldn't is a significantly better use of the technology than anything out of a tech bro's mouth
the real thing with genAI that it's important to remember is that it absolutely isn't world-changing, both in the sense of hyped-up claims from OpenAI that it'll revolutionize labor and people claiming it's inherently evil and corruptive and will destroy the world as we know it are both, in fact, extremely overblown
it's just a technology, same as any other. once the dot-com bubble popped the internet didn't stop being used, it just settled into a stable state. the same will happen (and is already starting to happen) with genAI

