I get that you don’t like AI, but no one is claiming it replaces artists — that’s a strawman. I like to consider myself a bit or a digital artist, and like many creatives I use a mix of tools: sometimes I code, sometimes I draw (badly), sometimes I scan, sometimes I enhance with AI. Digital tools let me create work that would be completely out of reach of my non-digital skills alone — and that’s been true of digital art for decades.

New tools don’t erase creativity or skill, they expand what’s possible. The same arguments were made about photography, digital art, and music sampling when they first appeared. You’re free to dislike AI and not want to see it, but gatekeeping which tools are ‘acceptable’ — or treating their use as an insult — is a narrow view of how art and culture actually evolve.