My craft is not painting
Okay, so I was correct in my assessment that you mentioned it for completely inauthentic, point-serving reasons?
Is the creative process "damaged" because a baker doesn't make chocolate chips from scratch for their cookies?
Yeah so, this is actually paying for premade assets, which is an established practice and what I am advocating for. It’s not comparable in any way to AI.
The metaphor you’re looking for is, “Is the creative process “damaged” because a baker doesn’t take photographs of their actual goods, and simply uses generic AI generated advertisements?” And the answer is yes, obviously the creative process has been damaged.
It is up to you and not a moral conundrum whether or not you care that you are eroding your creativity. But that is evidently what is happening, I’m sorry to say