Everybody thinks that the people they disagree with are worse. And frankly, I’d eat my hat if this didn’t stem from a deliberately divisive social media campaign sprung by image generator services. The “Defending AI Art” subreddit was created 4 days before the “Artist Hate” subreddit when midjourney was still in public alpha. And as someone that graduated art school, as a career changer, into an industry whose entry-level workforce was immediately screwed by models that trained on my student portfolio without permission, credit, or compensation, I consider the people mangling intersectional privilege jargon to paint themselves as an oppressed minority because they can’t enter midjourney images into photography contests to be completely fucking ridiculous.