One striking aspect of text to image and now text to video generators is that anything that can imagined can be created in an image or video. Even a wild imagination is not limited in what can be depicted or created.
So, when critics say that AI generators are not “creative” or may lead to homogenization, they may be missing the boat–or bicycles with animals riding them!
What seems apparent is that AI generators can spark people’s creativity, to let their imaginations run wild. The generator operates as a virtual brainstorming session, prompting people to imagine things that they would have never have thought of in a world in which such wild ideas just flitter away in one’s mind to die.
With AI generators, those wild ideas have found a playground to run loose.