> Or maybe the next great story teller to create something meaningful that touches people in ways that change their mental model of the world.

How many pieces of AI art can you actually remember? I mean, call to mind in the same detail as you can remember a photograph?

I think AI generated imagery is fundamentally compromised somehow in this regard: something subliminally uncanny, no matter how realistic, makes them harder to recall.

For this reason I personally doubt AI generated art will ever have a profound effect on people. Because it really seems to lack the mechanism.