Not sure democratising art is a good thing. Artists have long been considered important pillars of community. Artists develop skill and some have talent. Perhaps most critically, artists are inspired.

Healthy communities support artists. Generative models aren't truly creative art, they are explicitly and exclusively derivative. They are exactly inspired, in a different sense than artists who are inspired.

Artists can use these new tools, and so can non-artists, and even if the resultant image is the same, I think there is a difference depending on the intention of the prompt-er.

These models are democratising content creation, not art.

I dunno. Weird and very scary.