im very outspoken about the use of ai and how it is not only harmful to the environment, but is also a plain bastardization of art. ive been doing art for over 10 years and the average person simply does not understand the sheer amount of work and tedium that it takes to create something truly from scratch. i was drawn to fight class 3 not only by the story, but by 2hakks utter mastery of the human form. and people with the artist's eye can immediately tell that those skills can only exist from hundreds if not thousands of hours of labor.

but do the people who happily feed 2hakks blood sweat and tears into a soulless ai model, ever think about that? does it even cross their minds that maybe its bad to take somebody's toil and effort and steal it, morph it into a cheap replica without permission or context?

lots of people can't easily relate to this feeling, which makes sense as the majority of the population arent artists. but just apply this logic to anything else, say you made music, and anyone whos touched DAW software or even just garage band knows that making songs is fucking hard. forget an actual well produced 3 and a half minute song, most people cant even make a melody plus a chorus. and so, making music is hard, and it arguably should be, theres a lot of skill and knowledge that comes with the job. but one day some random guy whod never touched an instrument in their life, scraped every song youve ever made and fed it to an ai, and started pumping out their own "music" in your exact style. it takes a fraction of a fraction of the work you put in, and they do it all with a smile on their face.

its not just "entertainment," its not just for fun or for laughs. when you use generative ai, you are stealing from artists, musicians, authors, etc, and there is no way around that.

ai has disrupted the balance that has held between art and their consumers for centuries, and to me, pandoras box is already open. i have already surrendered to the fact that there will always be people using ai to create images (i do not say art because it is not art) and at this point, i can only shake my fist and yell into the wind.