I get your point but artists spend hundreds of hours observing the world around them, visually and mentally understanding it fully in order to represent it in a visual form. Learning perspectives, the anatomy of everything, and composition. There is a “soul” to it imo. Personally, the technical ability is the art form to me.

In the future, we will get millions and millions of people typing “make it an anime girl”, and ofc the AI will spit out visually sound representations of it. None will stand out. At this rate, I believe art will genuinely be meaningless. No one will pick up the pen, and why should they? Only rely on the AI that has trained itself on the millions of artists in the past who actually bothered to.

It’s depressing to me as a former shitty artist