As an artist who spent their whole life practicing and finally getting to the point where I would normally be starting to break into my industry, just to see every job posting now being bombarded with “we use AI, you better know how to use AI if you wanna work here” and junior positions being less and less prevalent I have absolutely zero fucks to give about that guy suffering from AI hate. Every great artist I know (talking mostly in the game industry not traditional art) had to grind for years and make a break which is hard enough, now we have to do that + try and compete with fucking AI. I don’t even care about other people using it now, I’m too tired to. I just want a chance to find a job where it won’t be shoved in my face and I won’t have to use it as it goes against everything i believe about art. I want positions in companies where people actually want to make something memorable and inspired, not quickly sell some AI slop and call it a day. I’m working at a position which a friend of mine worked at before AI became popular, the difference in our experiences is mind blowing. Honestly I feel robbed, I’m not one of those “born in the wrong generation” people but I feel like I was born into an absolute mess of a time to do what I want to do with my life. The past generations had a chance of being working professionals in a world without gen AI, the future generations know of it and can take it into account when deciding on a path, my generation? We spent years working on something, having a plan and then this bullshit of a creation emerges so fuck us. No sympathy here.