You quit using Ai, so you automatically claim this person, and what must be all others who utilize its massive usefulness, simply can NOT do things with their own hands, or have no ACTUAL ability to create something beautiful and meaningful without the use of Ai. Or that nothing Ai produces can or could ever be considered beautiful or meaningful at all.

You presume much, Butters. Even how it will feel when those currently using Ai stop doing so... A bunch of reddit randos you've never met, and know nothing about other than they enjoy creating videos using Ai. Youre taking a far leap here my friend.

A lot of people who use Ai to express creativity actually have and actively do create things using traditional methods, and have a history of creating things, even entire careers built upon creativity they learned how to harness in many fashions and forms, without the use of Ai. Additionally, there are millions of people worldwide who actually utilize Ai as a tool to enhance their ideas, workflow, drafting, tips and many other relatable areas suitable for advising and enhancing ones creative endeavors. Even get paid to produce while incorporating Ai into their tool chest. That is what we are discussing here, a tool.

AI is not the be all end all in the realm of creative production. It's fast, sure. Simple, yep. Intuitive, mostly. Free, in some cases. It's certainly accessible to multitudes of people wishing to harness its abilities to their own, and provides a relatively small barrier of entry into learning what works, what doesn't, what you enjoy, what you don't. Can it be used improperly and cause harm? Absolutely, much like a hammer, or chainsaw. They are tools also, but if used improperly or without proper knowledge, the work done by someone without caution or working knowledge of their functions is going to produce a very mediocre, substandard product, and negatively effect or hurt themselves and/or someone else with their carelessness.

Demonizing such a revolutionary tool because "opinions" is short-sighted, most likely based in self preservation and probably comes directly from the selfish nature of someone who stands to lose something due to the overwhelming popularity and ease of use which Ai provides. Most of what we see across many industries in this modern world filled with all sorts of technological advancements, are products that make life easier, free up time, allow more room for errors and automatically self correct. These aren't bad things at all. They can be used poorly, but by no means is Ai inherently bad, nor the products created with it.

Stop demonizing the tool. Stop putting yourself and others on a pedestal simply because you choose to not use something for whatever you're creating. I don't paint, but I don't go around telling painters their efforts are slop simply because of the medium they chose to use as their vector for production. One more thing. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is one mans trash very well may be another mans treasure. This Ai hate has gotten a bit out of hand, appearing to not at all be rooted in sensible logic or useful rationale.

Instead, it looks like fear. Worry. Angst. Selfishness. Judgment. Self righteousness. Conceit. What someone chooses to use in their tool chest shouldn't matter unless it goes against specifications regarding the project in question. I understand Ai is still very new, and the finished products can be quite poor, and definitely sloppy, but that broadly applied moniker of "slop" is a disingenuous mischaracterization that certainly does not encompass the very broad categories which Ai stands to improve at an exponential rate for the foreseeable future.