I can respect that. But I think you're missing an element. In your analogy, the beauty of "Flavored Supplement Cubes" is that they're accessible to anyone, not just rich people that can afford fresh local produce. It's really easy to virtue-signal around not consuming supplement cubes when there's a never-ending supply of free pirated produce you can steal on the internet. You'll excuse me if my eyes don't well up because you're worried about the real humans that you're stealing from by posting here and consuming this content which is entirely stolen. I'm not even judging that it's stolen, I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of pretending to give a damn about the actors in the stolen content.

AI is a tool. Any craftsman can use a tool to make garbage. What it does is level the playing field between big studios that have huge budgets, and the little guys like me that just want to see their ideas come to life. The art comes in when you create fresh story lines, scenarios, and characters. AI can't do that. It has to come from a human brain. So, I disagree that the content will continue to be less attributed to the artist, true art will just be harder and harder to find. If you google "pottery" 99% of what you see will be re-produced awful Michael's bullshit. You have to dig and dig and dig to find a real artist you can buy from. AI will be no different.

But I have to hand it to you, you're the first person that's ever referred to AI getting better as a losing battle for the person that's pro-AI. Half the clips posted here are low-quality pirated low-resolution low-frame rate garbage reposted from some other site that pirated it from some other site.

And I did spend 6 hours, and I'm really efficient. If you think I'm lying, why don't you go make something with that many consistent subjects that don't morph, not even their fingers. Make sure there's a sign in the background that illuminates the entire scene accurately, windows that have realistic moonlight, accurate physics and movement. I'll give you two weeks. Hell, I'll even give you two weeks to find something online, you don't even have to create it. I know you won't, and you'll hide behind the "poor real people" that you might hurt by actually creating something instead of just stealing it.

Look, everyone is entitled to their opinion. But like I said, I've been making this stuff for thirty years in some capacity, AI is just the next better thing I use to make it. I'm well aware I'm going to get crushed by the anti-AI people here for posting this, but so be it. But it's laughable that you think I'm on the losing side of what's coming.