I'm an artist. I don't like AI art, I don't use Ai in any capacity. Could the tech.be used by the right hands to create a legitimate work of art? Sure . an incredibly select few(Not in a "generate this image" type of way, but I can see how one could make an argument for something conceptual and interesting done with the tech)

But the wider picture is that it will steal work from most of the skilled artist workforce, we are not able to compete whith the scale of ai output; and not everyone is suited for the independent artist life, because it's fucking hard. Also the visual literacy of the average person will go further down the drain, and It's already very poor, AI will kill a lot of future potential artists.. this is not even touching the effects this technology has in other areas of our lives.

Ai exists to make the average person more stupid, more reliant in the corpos, more isolated in their own bubble. It makes me despair, but also fuels me to keep doing art, even if it is only for myself. I will not let them take the only thing I'm good at away from me.