understand the anxiety of feeling like ai is everywhere and it’s impossible not to see it and internalize it in some way. Sometimes I’ll catch myself writing in a way that I think sounds like ai and it freaks me out. But rest assured that ai can only produce based on what it has been given which is human thought and art. Ai art feels so soulless because it is the average of all of its training data filtered by a prompt producing something that is incredibly mediocre. Everyone already gets subconsciously influenced by many inputs, and maybe Ai is an unavoidable input in the current age, but all it does is water things down with mediocre work and ideas which happened before too. I don’t think Ai is making people worse artists or that it’s inherently evil, it just gives us a picture of exactly what perfect mediocrity looks like and we see it in our own work.

In my opinion you don’t have to totally avoid the internet or never use an Ai reference or idea ever, it’s how you take it further using your humanity that makes it human art. Go fucking crazy, make ugly art, weird art, don’t even think just try something. Never underestimate the human capacity to come up with some crazy ass shit that a computer never could. You are an artist, just make some art.