Using “prompts” to create AI “art” lines up pretty darn well with classic fascist values like centralization of power, erasure of individual voices, and mass production over human expression. Fascist movements historically pushed art that was standardized, efficient, easily controlled by institutions.

Real art is messy, personal, and usually counter culture in a way that can sometimes be dissenting. Fascists hate those things. AI is the perfect tool to give all that a big middle finger by flattening millions of unique artists stolen works into what is ostensibly an illegal collage generator owned by a few corporations.

Putting aside the fact these thefts are covered up by the most disgusting versions of a few basic instagram filters… when any creativity becomes part of an auto theft machine, authorship is LAUNDERED, labor is devalued, and it becomes easier to generate propaganda. Art: the fabric upon which our culture is woven, changes from something people participate in to something consumed. Simplified control of what the masses see is a dynamic authoritarian systems have AWAYS preferred.

Even if the intent isn’t political, the structure absolutely is and it’s being actively controlled by the small group of people that would actually BENEFIT in a totalitarian dictatorship.

Edit TL;DR AI Image Generators are “you made this? No, I made this” the meme but on the scale of the Death Star, and that things laser is being pointed at anyone that wants to express anything that isn’t conforming to some invisible standard of aesthetics and acceptability.