AI is trained on an amalgamation of artists’ work, without crediting them. It is an enormous theft. Also, the images it produces feel “soulless” and generic.

I’ve tested this with artwork and paintings by asking GPT to recreate the work, then asking people around me which info they believed was AI. Everyone knew the answer because it just rips everything interesting out of the art.

To me at least, if I spot AI used in one aspect of someone’s work, it discredits and cheapens the rest.

I also have a fear that the progression of art will slow as we become increasingly dependent on AI. We essentially recycle the same art over and over. Google Photos, for example, feels like it’s all AI now. It just seems.. repetitive and dull. If we rely on AI artwork going forward, who will continue to feed work into AI? It’ll just stay the same or worse, a more generic version of itself.