GOOD LORD, SNUFFY SEGGS
>>41509318i debated over it for a long time.
things like what does it mean to be an artist to me, personally.. etc?
i ran my own art through an ai generator and found myself getting quite sad - then a friend who coaches people for chess as a side gig talked to me about how he uses AI to help him teach/get better at chess and that I should see AI as a "calculator" for my own art, in a sense.
I don't feel anything from just posting a piece of AI art really, as I realised creating is a personal need rather than anything else. I instead use it to further my own learning abilities.
It's like knowing how to cheat for money in The Sims, but you don't do it by choice because it ruins the fun to some extent.