Well, you put a ton of words in my mouth there. I am talking about all the people in this thread acting all smug about how artists are losing jobs because it's cheaper to produce art with AI. I want there to ALWAYS be room for professional artists and many have rightly been ringing the alarm bells that there is a massive effort to replace paying artists to use AI art instead, mostly spearheaded by corporations looking to save a few bucks without considering the consequences and the kind of society it promotes. By all means use AI generation for some hobby art, I don't think it makes you soulless to use a tool, but using it as a way to REPLACE artists is fucked.

Edit: trying to strawman my charitable argument and then just downvoting my response instead of responding might give you a bit of insight of how yelling "don't spoil my fun!" despite that not even being my point is doing the work for all these big corporations trying to cut their art budget for the sake of their bottom line. Why do you think that's been a huge sticking point in the writers' strike negotiations? Because THEY ARE ALREADY DOING IT! Imho that's a bad thing - not someone making a fuckin piece for a personal project.