It's interesting that I'm only seeing this kind of anti-ai tendency only in American/Western art circles. Anywhere else in Middle East/Asia, artists are having fun experimenting with it.
Hmm, how would we measure and confirm this hypothesis?
> First reported in the 2023 AI Index, significant regional differences in AI optimism persist. A large majority believe AI-powered products and services offer more benefits than drawbacks in countries like China (83%), Indonesia (80%), and Thailand (77%). In contrast, only a minority share this view in Canada (40%), the United States (39%), and the Netherlands (36%).
Source: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/publi...
https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=...
The top 2 by percentage are:
- Office and administrative support occupations
- Sales and related occupations
Anyone can pick up a pencil and practice for hours a day! You can look out a window for inspiration! There is no "gatekeeping" art, only people upset it doesn't come as easily to them as B2B SAAS and confusing real effort and introspection as "gatekeeping".
The AI art people were so happy to rub it in artists face, that finally, without effort or appreciation, they no longer had to pay the skilled person for an image.
Companies and consumers don't give a damn about how much hard work went into an art piece typically. Sorry to say.
Your view on the world makes me sad. You and a few million like yourself will never be satisfied. You will strip anything that is good in life to sell back a shallow clone to people, never understanding the medium in the first place.
Go read a book, talk to god, see a play, or something.
You have no idea about me, no idea of my life, no idea of my interests. I'd bet money I read more than you, I don't talk to god (don't really believe in him) but I'd bet I've gone on more pilgrimages than you, and I have seen a play within the last couple months, but "I can't be satisfied?"
Screw your pretentious, self-important, cloying, bullshit-soaked idea that you're special. You're not special. Your skills aren't special - neither are mine. Grow up and stop clinging to a nostalgia that wasn't so great anyway.