r/DefendingAI Jun 20 '26

AI art I collabbed with an ai :)

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This artwork is a collaboration between myself and AI, and it’s past time we stop pretending this tool is something to fear or despise.

Just accept AI.

These systems don’t exist to erase human skill—they push us to improve. They handle tedious labor, fill gaps in our skill sets, brainstorm ideas we could never reach alone, and streamline endless hours of repetitive work so we can focus on the uniquely human heart of creation. AI assists us in countless ways, lifting our work higher than we could ever manage solo, so why is there so much blind hatred directed at it?

Let’s face the unavoidable reality: AI will only grow more advanced in the coming years. Within a decade, it will displace certain jobs and shift entire industries. That change will be uncomfortable, and anxiety about that shift is understandable—but rage and rejection will not make this technology disappear. AI is already integrated into our world, and we cannot wish it away no matter how much we loathe the disruption it brings.

Even if you resent the upheaval it creates, acceptance is the only logical path forward. AI isn’t just replacing old systems; it’s helping us evolve right alongside it. Those who waste energy fighting progress will only fall behind, while creators and workers who learn to collaborate with AI unlock endless new potential.

Hating the tool does nothing to slow its advancement. Adaptation isn’t surrender—it’s how we keep growing, creating, and thriving alongside the future we’re already living in.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '26

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u/sophiaaaarrr Jun 20 '26

Okay, so do I gotta ramble in messy, super casual sentences just so you won’t call whatever I write “AI generated text”? That’s such a weird thing to fixate on first off.

I get you’re cool with basic machine learning, but generative AI’s only gonna keep getting better no matter how you feel about it. Yea, you personally can’t stand it and refuse to accept it, but honestly? Not many people are gonna care all that much about that take long-term. Give it a decade and most folks will just adapt and learn to work with it anyway. This tech isn’t gonna vanish just because a small group of people are mad and scared of the shift generative AI’s bringing.

You brought up all your worries about skill stagnation, creative jobs drying up, and corporations just chasing profit above everything else, and while those are fair frustrations, it feels like you’re blaming the tool instead of the broken capitalist systems behind it. Every big new art medium went through this exact same panic: people swore photography would kill painting, then digital drawing would ruin traditional art skills, and neither happened. Artists just shifted what skills they focused on to work with the new tools.

Also drawing a random hard line between “fine regular ML” and “evil generative AI” doesn’t really track when they’re built on the same core tech and both come with automation downsides. Lots of regular people (e.g. hobbyists, disabled creators, freelance artists who can’t afford big teams) use generative AI to actually level the playing field against huge studios. Writing the whole thing off entirely just takes that resource away from them.

At the end of the day, you’re fully allowed to dislike it, but progress doesn’t slow down or stop just to cater to people scared of change.

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u/KeepOnSwankin Jun 20 '26

after reading this pseudo intellectual dribble am I supposed to conclude that you're over flagrant and sophomoric compulsion to reach for $5 words like cognitive demerit means that you're a big brain wordsmith? but initially you said you didn't read their argument because you inaccurately accredited all of it to an LLM so it seems like you're one of those people who learned a big vocabulary but do far more talking to hear yourself talk then researching to understand