I think we're about to enter a period of 1-2 years, with a 'cringe gap' around AI.

Most generated content will look the same. The same styles. The same prompts. But a small group of creators will figure out their own unique format, and scale it to infinity. Taste and vision have never been more valuable.

What makes so much A.I. art so bad, in my opinion, is that it’s so generic. These are generative systems. We keep calling them generative. But generative is so — when we use that term, it usually means it helped you get somewhere new. But these systems are mimics. They help you go somewhere old. They can help us write or draw or compose like anyone... See more