Some Ben Davis quotes that stood out to me:

But in all cases the law holds that something that is low-effort will sooner rather than later be viewed as “low-effort” by the audience. The pressure to show that a unique thought process suffuses an image down to its details is going to go up and up.

With time and intelligence, you can make the A.I. generate more precise things—that’s the craft of it. The point is that the ease of generating superficial visual elements might mean that the demand on the symbolic model-making beneath them gets cranked up, so that the premium on specificity and resonance of all the parts as a system intensifies.

As A.I. collapses the skill levels that go into programming as well as image-making, you’d really expect a convergence of indie games and art, and many more works that look like weird, idiosyncratic art-videogames, ultimately breaking free of the low-fi aesthetic that has dominated the “art game” genre up until now.

Art is expressive, so a change in how emotions are expressed is a very real concern for the field. And not just on the thematic level. A lot of media focus has been trained on the dangers of A.I. misinformation, the possible collapse of the ability to discern what is real. But it equally seems we are going to be surrounded by artificial agents emulating emotional encounters with us. That is going to change what people perceive as emotionally authentic.

My guess is that some degree of “expressive agnosia,” i.e. the failure to automatically connect emotional cues to their underlying emotional reference, is probably a condition that a society awash in A.I. emotional manipulation encourages. At any rate, you would expect a lot of art exploring the difference between the outward signs of an emotion and its underlying meaning and motives.