Debate: LLMs are the art world's Copilot — intentionality and taste are the scarce inputs
akbirthko · x · 2026-09-17
- akbirthko argues LLMs are to art what early code copilots were to programming: the bottleneck is no longer regurgitating biased data distributions but intentionality and taste.
- His "expensive" means the upper bound you're willing to invest — millions of dollars or a lifetime learning to paint — raising the creative ceiling rather than capping price or time.
- txantxullos counters with Jevon's paradox: digital art has been practically free for a while, and making art expensive to create means missing out on a lot of it.
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