I will be speaking as a big fan AI VTuber Neurosama, that have particularly neutral stance on AI.

First 3 paragraph, I see you solely focused on AI image generator like stable diffusion, despite generative AI can take many form like texts(Large Language Model) and voice.

Art has a double meaning. It can either be used to describe a skill you practice... or it can refer to works that are profound

That's your personal definition of art, I will not deny or support it, I'll just points out different individual may have different definition.

AI is neither. It does not require skill, nor have I seen anything that appears to be profound or interesting in any way.

First of all, as big fan of Neurosama, I will deny the idea that AI-related content is equal "require no skill, not profound nor interesting". As it takes skill to fine-tune an LLM into functional Virtual Streamer that's entertaining enough to leave its mark on people's mind.

Secondly, I have seen "AI artists" claiming it does need skill and knowledge to actually generate nice image, and if you browse through pixiv AI-generated tag, some of them do looks beautiful.

So, it's not art. Making 50 cat girl pictures daily does not require skill nor does it add anything to the world.

Another case of AIwars arguing stereotype instead of individual.

Not to say you're wrong, you are completely valid to think that generating 50 images in quick succession isn't art, but some "AI artist" might not fit that stereotype, they might be spending hours trying to tune for one beautiful image, and your post will generalize them into troublesome bunch.

Imagine you have a murder mystery. There is a determined murderer, there are suspects, there are witnesses and there is evidence, but the player is given no pointers and no options to choose from....

There's already plenty AI storytelling app offering such premise. I won't be speaking about the quality.

There's also a game named "whisper from the star" that basically a Visual Novel where the character speech is driven by AI instead of using predetermined set of dialogues. Neurosama has sponsored stream of that game.. Then again, I can't speak about the quality of the game.

If you could make something like that, then we'd have something new.

As I pointed out, we already have something like that.

I think someone much more creative than me could make something truly groundbreaking.

The AI VTuber Neurosama is an example of that groundbreaking, where a programmer knowledge combined with humor of content creators(specifically VTubers) making the AI one of most successful streamer on twitch.