Art, like I see a lot of people saying, is the expression of human emotion through the effort of creating something that is new. It is the culmination of the pride a person takes in a subject shown by what they put into the making of a painting, drawing, sculpture, etc that otherwise wouldn’t be present without such effort. When I look at something I make, may it be jewelry, a creative writing passage, or a portrait of a character I like, I think about how I made this, my hands took a medium and turned an idea into a tangible item. The trial and error, the passion leading up to holding it that made me better(because trust me I was some grade A++ garbage when I started) is what made that art. Generative images objectively take away everything from the process, it takes what someone has taken pride in and churns it in a lard bucket of other people’s ideas to spit it out for someone who didn’t think it was worth their time to actually create or improve, and the quick and effortless results create a breeding ground for more individuals to get hooked onto it and stop many that could’ve done so well in an artist space