I saw this film earlier this year. I found it intriguing, and thought it might not be that far away. It's not AI per se but it speaks to some of the comments in this thread. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. I think you can stream it on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZw2Hxdq1QE
And with regards to "art", most people really don't care and it isn't an integral part of their lives outside of the occasional trip to a museum. There was a time when people tore pages out of magazines and framed the photos. It was what they could afford and they liked the images. In the end displaying art is about creating an aesthetic in a place you live. Maybe it portrays who you are, and maybe it portrays who you want others to think you are.
I have a friend in Denver who is a well known artist. He makes a collage about once a month and takes it to a local Goodwilll Store. He finds a frame that fits the image he brought in, and puts the collage in the frame and leaves it at Goodwill where someone unknowingly buys it for a buck. The same image in a gallery would cost $1000. He never knows who bought it or what happens to it. Maybe they throw it away and put a magazine page in it's place. Another friend plasters huge photographic images on abandoned buildings in the desert of Arizona. It's at his expense many times although he does now get commissions to put images up around the world as well. He never sees most of the people who visit his work or gets feedback from them. The anonymity and surprise are part of the appeal.
In the end, urge for "making art" is about expressing yourself (like a message board?). It is a most basic impulse of the human spirit and has been for thousands of years. In the beginning art was made with fingers and then sticks and then brushes and plates. And then the camera came along, and artists decided to make things you can't photograph; impressionism and abstraction. AI most likely is a tool that will cause another reaction in the art world much as photography did. Maybe it will incorporate AI, or go in a direction that is 180 degrees opposite.
I saw the worst minds of my generation empowered by madness, bloated farcical naked,
dragging themselves through the whitewashed streets at dawn looking for a grievance fix.