Has the Generative AI Bubble Burst?

Anyone who knows me knows I have a low opinion of using “AI” to create art…or even to create marketing materials, emails, etc. It plagiarizes, it doesn’t produce anything particularly good, and it uses a lot of energy and water.
On LinkedIn, I still get people trying to get me to use it. Somebody just asked me if I knew of any good AI editing tools. I don’t.
Then there’s what happened with DragonCon where they, rightly in my opinion, removed a cover artist as a nominee who had used AI and admitted to using it frequently. Their publisher pulled out the hoary argument that spellcheck is AI…
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