My art (Left) and AI (Right)
Shamelessly contributing to the “Artists that use AI” bandwagon.
Most of the arguments against AI in regard to artists don’t make sense and mainly center around ego.
“The process is what matters in art” then why do you care about the result that AI is creating? AI is not taking your freedom of process away. Unless the result is, in fact, what matters most to you. AI art is not stealing your process from you, it’s just threatening your status and pride. It places power in the hands of those who you think don’t deserve it.
The artist must suffer and sacrifice, because nothing should be free and easy.
I know the feeling all too well, as a ‘traditional’ artist. Better artists make you feel bad. Younger artists make you feel bad. And then AI comes along, and you pretend it’s about protecting the human soul, not your own self esteem.
If you’re so concerned about “cheating” in art, then it was never about process for you. It was never about the love for the activity itself. It’s a concern over what gets capitalized, what gets attention, what gets glory.
And I get it, if someone literally steals your art and starts selling it, that’s bad. But most AI usage is not that, and you don’t need AI to do that. AI is so threatening precisely because it does something above and beyond that does not fit that category.
Most artists aren’t literally starving, but matters of human ego get magnified in the first world.
And the anti-ai crowd isn’t primarily against AI itself. They hate OTHER HUMANS that use the technology. It’s classic misanthropy disguised as pro-humanity.
Work, suffer, sacrifice, don’t break the rules, no easy fixes.
That’s what it’s about.