One of the most common arguments that folks use against AI is that fact you – supposedly – couldn't control the final output. You can, you have controlnets, you have img2img, hell, just look at Comfy UI, it looks like you are flying a plane or something. And there are countless very good posts explaining all that.
But I think this ends up overlooking the highest control a user has, and it's available everywhere: CURATION, aka "I don't like what the machine gave me, and I won't accept it". And that's a really really powerful control. It's the same control a nature photographer who took thousands of photos has to say "hey, I took 500 photos or something, I will select 5!".
It's also worth noticing that the limitations were always embraced by artists. People didn't wait for us to have the technology of sound cinema and coloured cinema to make movies. To hell with that "let's do in black and white and without sound!", people didn't wait for digital cameras to get as good as analogical ones to start shooting digital. People won't wait for Sora to get as versatile/good as traditional film-making to make AI movies.
The limitations were always embraced. "Okay, I can't do that, but I can use this technology this and adapt my idea into this sets of limitations currently put to me" and many of those limitations even up leading to something pretty great, some new way of thinking about the idea and approaching it.
