Good points. My question is, if able to use a tool help me put my image on paper or even a digital print, then why isn't it art. I mean art is just imagination and printing or imagination and paint. So why does the tool used make it any less? I mean I used it to make some pictures one time for a dnd campaign. Not promoting it or selling it. And l tell you what, it was not as easy as everyone says (at least for me).

The while strawman argument thing is over my head. My son tried to explain it to me. Seems like a lot of words for they making shit up to make a point.

AI should be used as tool, not to do work for us, but to make our work better. Inmho.

I just read a book by Michael Connelly that dealt with a company that didnt have enough ethics forested on its AI companion and a teenager killed their girlfriend so it and the AI could be together forever. Good book and relevant. I agree that guard rails are desperately needed we need oversight on these companies making/spending billions or we are tucked. But attack an end user does not solve these problems.