@BeAware It's a bad feeling to be sure. It's also unfair. You're not individually responsible for the AI trend.

I think if companies weren't allowed to use AI art, full stop, that's one thing. But art, especially visual art, is already deeply undervalued.

Visual artists saw how online machine translation services gave medium and larger companies a reason to reduce the number of translation/localization projects they contracted, and they can see themselves similarly threatened.

One person making a set of images with an AI tool is fun.

Book/Music publishers using AI generated cover artwork instead of paying an artist is harder to accept.