Fuck AI

I feel like we don't understand each other here. I don't want to appear combative, but I also don't like being misunderstood so:

My point was not "AI is an actual threat to all arts". My point was "equating the creative and artistic process with rapidly producing outcomes is something I profoundly disagree with, and I am truly afraid that it will take hold in people's minds".

Because, speaking also from experience, I know a few people with no AI agenda to push, who use AI as a substitute for a creative outlet. I think that they are being cheated out of a fantastic experience, because they buy into that kind of speech.

Your photography and digital arts equivalences, which I don't necessarily agree with, could also imply elitism, as in looking down on AI users. I assure you this does not come from a place of thinking people who use AI are inferior or not creative. This comes from a place of wanting them to experience their creativity truly. This means, in particular, outside the bounds of a tool which can be tuned and censored at the whims of a corporation (one big difference with photography and digital arts). This is a necessary condition for free self-expression.

So yes. I am afraid. Not that I'll lose my job, but that many people will believe this shit, settle for that, and be robbed of a wonderful human experience.