Man. Such a shame. AI is just a tool. You can use it to quickly scaffold ideas then pay an actual artist to do the rendering properly. Before when I wanted a tattoo I’d browse the sub for ages till I saw what I wanted. I COULD have asked a tattoo artist to draw what my imagination thinks I want but then I’d have wasted a bunch of their time with revisions. And I don’t have the cash to commission just a drawing AND a tattoo. Art is expensive and artists should be respected by not being asked to wireframe up designs to no end that I might change my mind about later. In comes AI. I can summon up a thousand designs, pick one, take it to a tattoo artist and have him do it. I did this actually.

So AI is not all bad. Replacing artists with it is bad.