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the connection to humans part is interesting. I can believe that there is less of a connection to a person who prompted something into existence.
however, i don't think there is much connection between me and Caravaggio, yet his Works of Mercy painting is still something I'd stand in front for a while (and I'm not even much of a paint admirer).
I think it is possible that AI slop is changing art -- like factory farming changed food: there is an abundance of the thing, and our tastes are being recalibrated to deal with it. What once might have been a flavor or weirdness of shape we expected of our food, is streamlined into the cartoon version you find at Walmart.
It may be the case that effort is a heuristic we can use to defend against these changes, but it doesn't matter much to me if someone spent a minute on their prompt or an hour, the result will still likely feel disappointing to me.
It's about our connection to other humans through work, effort, and meaning.
No work or effort = no meaning.
It's OK to talk about efficiency of scale, but I don't care about your clanker projects unless you make me care. Meaning is imbued with humanity and effort.