Can AI do art is a question I have been pondering lately. I keep coming back to this point: If we're producing for human pleasure, human pleasure will continue to be the judge of value. Machines can be used to replicate and produce quality at scale, but I'm unconvinced they will be able to dictate what is pleasurable to a human.

Human taste is notorious for seeking out novelty, so it's difficult to standardize over time. Maybe there will be/already has been a fork of humanity: those who exist as an energy source to feed the AI, and those who continue to dig deeper into what it means to be a human being exploring the wonders of the multiverse in a rapidly decaying meatsuit.

I imagine the former will be satisfied by AI engineered wine. It's for the latter that I roast coffee.