My biggest gripe with the “democratization” argument for AI is that we were already had a mass democratization of creative media. E-readers make self-publishing a breeze, Billie Eilish and Finneas proved you can make a hit record in your bedroom with some cheap to free plugins, plenty of free image editing and rendering software, you can get a drawing tablet for next to nothing. Not to mention the countless free tutorials out there mean the knowledge barrier isn’t there anymore.