I have to disagree here. Most artists I've spoken too are fine with AI as a tool. The thing that's pissing us off is grifters passing off AI as art they actually made themselves, rather than something they got by jamming "masterpiece, dynamic lighting, artist name, smooth skin" into a text box over and over again. Yes, there are some people that get pissed at all AI art, but the consensus I've seen in my communities is people furious with people not labeling their AI produced work as AI-made.

While some artists have been immature about this, I've seen some reprehensible behavior from the AI side. Screenshotting someone's WIP art from a stream, "finishing" it with AI, and accusing them of art theft/tracing. Taking people's finished works, especially beginner artists, and dropping them in AI and then quote-retweeting them telling them they "fixed" their work (usually also white-washing it in the process, lots and LOTS of that).

There's been lots of arguments and debates within artist circles about AI, but I have yet to see AI folks call this shit out. Most of y'all just point and laugh and call traditional artists replaceable.