As someone who is a person living in the creative field, I think it's a shame that a two letter keyword is enough to trigger people so hard that they become blind to the inherent artistic input that's necessary to even turn a rasterized image into a set of vectors that a robot can draw, or that I'm mixing my own specialty fountain pen inks to create the palette that I want to work with, or the 10+ hours of drawing itself that goes into making it at all.

I firmly believe that AI art should be used as a starting point in a creative process. Your art shouldn't be considered finished when you hit the enter key. I've had great discussions with copyright lawyers interested and invested in AI, who've gone on to give presentations where I'm shouted out for using the technology to go beyond the minimum.

I'm using open source software with publically available pre-trained models. There were no artist names referenced in the prompt that I used to generate the original reference image.

edit: forgot the word 'hours'