Fuck AI

You're right; and I do dismiss that opinion quite frequently and have learned at this point to just make no comment and continue the conversation forward.

On that note: I am a member of the art community, I make digital and physical art as a hobbyist. Occasionally I do some commissions for people but it's not often. But, those commission requests are going down in number because people want instant art. One friend that made the comment of preferring AI art to me the other day said she does so because she doesn't want to spend time practicing, so instead she likes to generate images and trace them as it's more efficient and less taxing on her mind to make something. Assuming she's doing this for fun or therapeutic reasons, why would you want efficiency? Why would making something(even if it's a simple flower and sun in the corner of the page) be that taxing that you need to generate it? Let's think of why it's taxing first rather than skirting around that and using a generator that scrapes data from others illegally.

It's a consumerist mindset that really leaks into a lot of the aspects I've mentioned in my previous comment. And honestly, I don't think a lot of these people really believe AI art is better, I think they're so used to instant gratification in almost every part of their life that they're trying to get that dopamine hit regardless if it's quality content(work, art, stories, etc) or not.