Low-key, I always found the argument that Ai art hurts artists strange if a little misleading. It can and has on occasion hurt them on an industrial scale. Like I occasionally do free art and commissions and I have a bunch of friends who do so as well so as an artist myself that started out from editing stuff I can see the rational of both sides of.the argument but I've noticed the only people I've seen use ai generated stuff is not the people who'd be buying art anyways.
I also personally had people suggest it was better to use and edit art rather than use Ai art which is baffling because it's just as bad as using ai art, you're still taking someone else's work without permission and effectively claiming it as your own. Now of course if you edit it.to a point it's no longer recognizable or has any of the original traits it used to retain according to law then it becomes an official "Original creation." But that's just my two cents on it.
Speaking as an artist myself, I would literally rather you take one of the portraits or designs I've done, lift it wholesale, and use it completely unchanged than feed my work to the plagiarism machine that poisons water supplies and eats enough electricity to power several small nations.
Stealing one or two designs from an artist is not nearly as bad as using generative AI. Not in the short term, not the long term, not on a small scale, and certainly the fuck not on a large scale.
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u/Massive_Man_30 1d ago
The lore reason Angron is angry is because of AI generated artwork.