A little late to the party on this one. Thanks for the tag

It's an interesting thought. The frustrating thing is that for me and a lot of other creatives, we don't know where our ideas come from. I could be unconscious assimilation of your total human experience, or maybe the divine. If it's the first thing than A.I. might be able to compete because it already has consumed more knowledge than any human alive, but it doesn't live. A.I. doesn't experience love or heartbreak so its art may never be as true as someone in tuned with their emotions. However, A.I. being able to make art that's more beautiful than a human could is up for debate. Because its trained on all human works it most likely creates the most common beauty and the new role of the artist is to make things that the A.I. wouldn't think to create. But then once you make it, the A.I. can do it 10 times over.

As of now, A.I. doesn't direct the art, it just makes it. This allows for people with no artistic ability to create images that have profound symbolism. You could theoretically take all the art people have made and create the most common imagery found in all works. This might lead us to a better understanding of ourselves and the symbolism that guides us.

as a thought experiment I just asked chatGPT this "Think of all the art in the world and all its symbolism then create an image with the most common themes / symbols incorporated into this image make sure its coherent and makes sense as an image" and it gave me this image

So nothing totally revolutionary. You won't see that image in a museum anywhere. But it makes you ponder a little bit about our own humanity.

Ultimately it's a tool and you can either use it to enhance your art or you can stick with your own life experiences. Both are valid and I find myself in the middle ground. It helps come up with a premise or themes and can sometimes help with refining works. But TBH because of A.I. art, I've been sticking to physical art that you have to build or craft with your hands. Here's another image. 2 prompts. First I said "What are the 10 most common themes/symbolism in literature and art?" Then after it gave me a list I said "Make me an image that incorporates all of these themes"