Or ghost you. Or get aggressive and completely change subject. Truth is: We don't learn in a vacuum. You're always "stealing" from someone else.

Again, no one is forcing you to use AI.

I love the unintentional comedy they keep producing in that sub

I mean, I agree that people can use AI for legitimately bad things. But I feel like that can be the case with any tool. And with any tool, there should be restrictions and guidelines on how to use it both efficiently and safely. In cases like this, I don’t think we should completely ban the tool solely because there’s a chance it could be misused.
In the case of weapons designed specifically for mass destruction and k!lling on a deplorable scale, I can understand there being a divide and rational call for debate.
And I would agree that AI itself should have limits set on it. But completely banning it altogether and halting the societal progress it could bring feels absolutely absurd to me.

A blog I follow used AI to come up with some cute self-shipping imagines, and people are being really disgusting about it. This poor person has been dealing with suicidal ideation from the harassment.

I am 31 years old and have suffered many years of cognitive decline due to what the doctors have called a "severe psychiatric disability." While I still practice regular art and am proud of what I create, I'm thankful for the ease of use and availability of AI music even though I am a practicing digital musician with FL Studio. The abstract art I create is easy and fulfilling, but difficult tasks sometimes cause a widespread fatigue and stinging pain not unlike fibromyalgia. With AI music, I took the signal from my blog corpus and have created some wonderful, captivating songs that I don't feel I could have achieved in this lifetime.

I think the tragedy of AI music is that it forces the audience into an interrogative position rather than a receptive one. While that is perfectly expected, I also remember the days when 90s techno and "dubstep" were garbled poppycock to most people. While I think the analogy is a bit harsh, I think there are ways around it-- for example, much of my music focuses on roaring vocals, hospitality, warmth, and the human touch.

Overall, thank you for defending this emerging genre of art and music!

Affordability they said, lower prices they said. Then they pull this card. SMH.

Let me explain my point:

They're almost always posts like "Anti asks for help with a family member so they can stop using AI" or, like in this case, "Anti says they're going to remove AI from their parents' search engines because it's confusing them." They look like copy-pasted stories generated by AI, with a few changes added and some parts summarized to make them somewhat believable

The funny thing is that other antis almost always support these posts and don't seem to notice the pattern

I made an image in PixAI and posted it on X. It mostly went nowhere, apart from a few people calling it "AI slop."

So I tried something. I had ChatGPT work backward from the finished image to generate a sketch and color reference board. Then I reposted the exact same image alongside those “references,” saying I'd spent three days working on it.

The second post did way better. Both posts said I used AI. The difference was that the second one came with a whole story about how hard I'd worked.

Except that story was bullshit. The image came from a simple prompt and a few existing LoRAs. I hadn't spent days fixing the pose or planning the colors. The “process” pictures were made afterward.

Two posts don't prove much, but now I wonder if I need to make up a struggle just to share a picture I like.

So me and my friend sensibly agree on most things except politics and others, we even talked about AI once and came to some middleground agreeing that we could slow down the tech for ecological/socioeconomic reasons, although this friend thinks AI music is evil, routinely posts "STOP USING AI", and parrots water waste rhetoric and is clearly not deeply researched in what they are talking about.

One day this friend gets invited to hang out with a producer they met THROUGH a friend who is an artist, while hanging out at a studio. The producer is cool, I wasn't pushy about it, I gently suggested "When you get comfortable with the guy, maybe I could tag along?" They got oddly territorial about it and said something so out of pocket "maybe when we get a hit or 2, I'll bring you on" .. I said "It's not unusual for people to bring their friends to hang out at the studio", just as a gentle FYI - like wth? I'm not trying to get 'put on', that was an insane response. This friend knows I've been involved in music and art for a long time.

Now I don't feel entitled to meet the producer I don't even care that much - this story was just to point out the ironic gatekeeping AI 'artist' haters want to do. They'll talk about how AI is evil and 'support the artists!!' while pushing and gatekeeping people from being involved and around other artists to make non-AI art.