The attack on the arts by AI is threefold:
1- piracy & scraping, stealing our work
2 - flooding the internet with generative AI slop & destroying the market for all art
3 - discouraging future generations of artists to learn any skills because “why bother when AI is easier”
Art Twitter: please stop expecting artists to be infallible and/or fortune tellers.
I see friends in the art community genuinely doing right by us for YEARS. They misstep once and boom!--vicious dogpile.
We're all we've got. How about some patience and benefit of the doubt?