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You can take "justifiable" to mean whatever you feel it means in this context. e.g. Morally, artistically, environmentally, etc.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Has a sense of capitalistic entitlement in it. You feel that you deserve the product of art but don't respect the people who do put in the time and effort learning how to make it enough to properly compensate them for the time that they spent learning the profession.

This is really not true at all. Me and others not having the time to learn to draw (and compose and direct and act and and and...) doesn't mean we disrespect those who do. We just want to make something to enjoy for ourselves. And yes, those who don't have the time, also (typically) don't have the money. Again, it's a classist argument to claim that everyone has either the time to learn, or the money to commission.

Likewise, it's infuriating to see privileged takes of "oh just spend a few hours here and there". Motherfucker, there's people who do not have a few hours here and there. There's people who work 2 jobs, who raise children alone, who are primary caregivers for others. They're not taking anything from artists by generating an image they like in the 1 minute they have available.

I am of the opinion of, let people enjoy things that bring them joy. I have no issue with GenAI if it's for strictly non-commercial personal use, especially when it's using open-weight local models who've already been trained. I do think that GenAI work should not be able to be monetized at all, but I don't make the rules. But people moralizing against random enthusiasts because "just learn to draw bruv" is never going to convince anyone or achieve anything. However convincing people to not support massive corpos will.