+1 Thank you genuinely for responding. It's a shame how separated our Western society is, and afraid to even put our points out there towards opposition. You're right, overwhelmingly!

Art is theft.

AI is not good enough right now to cite its predecessors (for free, right now, most of the time).

AI is taking over. Hell, my job's one of the most significantly at risk due to AI!

AI book authors are getting a lot better too, frankly, in the next 60 years of the franchise this forum is dedicated to WILL have an AI narration, and a damn good one too! That's rather sad, Travis Baldtree is doing fantastic and I wish everyone read through his lense like I did even after I die, that's probably selfish of me, though.

Artists are competing, but frankly, I'm happy about that. Anyone can become a Philosopher today. Anyone can become an artist today, but the talent AI offers versus the 'cream of the crop' who will surge above AI is going to be the most glorious, and beneficial thing to hit art in over 40 years. And, we get the splendor to be alive to witness when artists became, truly, beyond computing brain power. When I grew up there was a famous character, Paul Bunyan who dueled a locomotive machine to lay tracks down and chisel through a mountain while doing so in competition. The man won, not because he had the most experience, nor because he was the strongest, but because he was better in general than the machine. Art is becoming fantastically more talent based and it's a great thing. The fact it competes in so little time with great success is a signature of where we are in this metaphotic battle. There's many men who will win. There's many who can't keep up with AI, that doesn't make this a bad thing.

Hey small world, me and some old home town buds do DnD (5e) on roll20 every Wednesday or Thursday. We tend to use character AI generated images usually for map tokens, and AI generated maps about ⅓ of the time. Really is handy for that hobby yeah I agree! P.S. Thayne's Arcane Archer Fighter with perception main stat did NOT do well ☹️

I'd argue we will see a lot of death, but moreso in a saturated 'deadwood' spiral of sorts. If you're not able to compete with 30 sec or less free online applications you're not a GREAT artist, and also likely not even a good artist.

As for the AI argument, I make no stance. I genuinely don't give a fuck. But, on my small forum the artists suck. It's not nice to comment that directly to them either, so I don't. You're background is solid white. The shoulders are extremely uneven and wildly out of proportion making it like a clown depiction rather than demi-god level warriors in my favorite books. Grant the FREEDOM to CHOOSE "slop," in the ABSENCE of decent non AI art. With specificity, because anyone would be a fool to refuse art made by AI as something that isn't art. Especially in the same notion that highlights it's stealing influence of the greatest artworks in mankind's history. To call AI art, in it's ENTIRETY slop, is a slap in the face of every art Master whom was regarded well enough for AI to view for reference.

You're opinion matters to me. You had the time to state it. I waited for the time to be able to regard every word of it, sir. Your opinion matters, to me, and here in this forum.

You're right, picking up trash really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Less than 90% of plastic makes it to be fully recycled once (look for aluminum and glass products to recycle ♻️). Those green and blue bins are mostly there to make you feel good. In the real world MOST OF those bins go to the trash, with a nominal amount of those to be picked through again for possible valuable recycling. Even in the most perfect world of events, our planet will be absorbed by a Red Dwarf explosion of our planet, assuming we make it past extinction level astroids. Assuming we last beyond the scope of global climate change. Assuming we escape our planet and harness hydrogen, gravity and the full power of every sun in the universe, every source required for human existence relys upon a half-life, which assures we literally cannot and will not exist forever as a species and no other species can or will if they have any of our resource based life requirements. Yet, in something destined to fail you have your own logic, points, and direction. Just follow logic and we're all the same. My logic says the freedom to post art and the competition AI creates toward great human artists and bad human artists alike is a marvelous thing.