I think for many people LLMs and generative AI represent this "deep insult" to who we are as humans. LLMs can be more creative than something like 50% of humans. Like if you'd prompt 1000 humans to draw something creative and then let other humans evaluate their results with that of LLMs, the LLMs would probably win in terms of "this is more creative". Maybe it's only 10% or maybe it's even more. Maybe it'll stall and maybe it'll continue to improve. But it's a question that can be scientifically answered.

And many hollywood movies, romcoms, sitcoms, dramadies, they all have the protagonist do something "creative" and sometimes it's even a plot point that they should get to do their creative thing professionally. It's idealized as the ultimate expression of humanity. And then LLMs came and took a massive shit on that idea lol. A program replacing someone writing or drawing something is seen as something far "worse" than a robot or machine replacing someone doing manual labor. One is liberation of dirty work, the other is supplanting and making irrelevant.

So it can't be. The insult and psychological wound is so deep that they now must deny reality and attack anything that contradicts them lol.

Obviously actual "high art" or "high culture" is really something completely different than the content and entertainment slop that is produced today, even before AI. Actual high art isn't in danger of being replaced by LLM until we create an AI that is sapient.