Just my reading, not well separated from my own views but - he's wanting a steam powered paintbrush with thousand buttons that only professionally trained artists are allowed to use and does nothing if held in a hand of an average person. He's done with proxy manipulation through metadata such as fabricated museum captions, negative Danbooru tags, and lines painted over existing works. This is not exactly the problem definition made above nor a fair description to the problem, and it's opposite of "democratization" concepts, but I do believe that's what it is. It's also what Photoshop is, anyway. Untrained users can barely draw a smiley with Photoshop open on a Wacom display.

If I really think about it, it feels just weird to me that fabricated metadata is supposed to be enough to yield an art. Metadata by definition do not contain data. It's management data artificially made to be as disconnected from data as possible. The connections left between the two are basically unsafe side effects.

I wish OpenAI and its followers quit setting bridges ablaze left and right, though I know it's tall order.