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You're confusing freedom of access to knowledge with the application of said knowledge here. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the rest, but I don't like you calling this "freedom of information" when it's clearly not, and is much better described as a kind of technological progressivism. What I mean is the idea that technology always progresses forwards, improving society as it goes forward. So, all technology ought to make people's lives better, even though that's not always true. I've been reading "The evolution of technology" by George Basalla for a philosophy course, and in it Basalla makes it clear that a lot of things that are commonly thought of technology, like that it necessarily comes from science and that it's most times revolutionary, arguing that they aren't always inspired by science, and isn't always discontinuous. So I don't think that this is as straight forward as you make it out to be. (it's actually a good read and I definitely recommend it. Basalla actually draws upon many different examples to showcase his points, and even accepts when no general theory can be proposed, for instance, to describe how novelty arises) I understand that AI has its place, but I would argue that AI isn't being used in the right way most times. Rather than being something used as a tool, it's being used as a replacement for artists. Again, I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you here, it's just I think you're being harsh and making wild accusations, like claiming "These people just refuse to advance their own skill sets", which makes me want to try to refute this.
Anyways I'm done with my stupid rant, I guess.
No, it's being used as a replacement for old artists, just like we stopped hiring painters to paint window signs and advertising and now we print them on fancy technology that puts images on paper like magic. Just like we stopped using hand drawn architectural designs, and those that had the old skills needed to learn new skills. Just like morse code operators gave way to the radio operator, and sketch artists gave way to photographers, and traditional artists who made way for digital artists, like the dumb phone to the smart phone, new tech, new skills, new abilities to do more with the experience and knowledge of others. Now you need an AI prompt artist with a plethora of AI and digital image related knowledge and skills.