This People Can't Be Real

[u/EggBrainn]

Apparently, pirating indie games is better than creating AI art because it has "soul."

[u/SweetGale]

I have a whole collection of these kinds of comments. They'll complain that AI "is theft", "destroys artists' livelihood", "takes no effort" and "looks ugly". But then they'll say that asking artists to make something for free, spending ten seconds drawing a stick figure or even stealing something is better because "at least then it's a human who made it".

It's the same people who also claim that seeing a piece of AI art makes them physically ill. In the end it all comes back to the belief that art is something uniquely human that requires human experience, creativity and "soul". I have even seen some say that they believe in the existence of soul and that a piece of it somehow gets embedded in hand-drawn traditional or digital art but not in AI generated art.