There is something deeply sad (if not freightening) to invent a enormously powerful digital augmentation technology and use it primarily to dimimish our humanity as it drowns in fake replicas
Why do we want to replace humans instead of augment them? To increase shareholder profit? To wage war remotely? To hand governments more power over us? What is the goal?
Really when you think about it, in a good amount of stories humans might as well be augmented intelligences. We just aren’t making a point of them being different, or at odds with the general human population.
Image AI has inpainting. You can provide a sketch for the AI to follow, have it redo parts of the image, or have it extend the image. You can pull things into Photoshop and retouch there.
Novel AI has story writing assistance. Or ChatGPT can be used to provide bits and pieces that can be then combined or improved until something good results. Eg, Chat GPT can write fairly passable poetry that one could use as a base for something actually good.
So far all AI works much better when combined with a human that knows what they're doing. You can easily create hundreds of okay pictures, but an actual artist is still by far the best user for an image generator.
We are entering a dystopic regime where our famous pale blue dot planet acts more as a mousetrap, where we play out an arms race of surveillance, advanced weaponry automation, psychological warfare and misinformation.
Its not clear how we could put a lid on the artificial madness but for sure it wont be achieved with half-measures