There's a very weird argument I've seen for AI art bullshit from certain people that I think should know better which goes like, "Well, the people pushing it hard are wrong and are using it unethically, but I see great use cases for it when used ethically! I'm simply a curious bystander waiting for it to become acceptable to use!" and it drives me insane. The world in which "AI" (machine learning, there is no intelligence or originality here) could be used ethically does not exist. This shit is constantly being pushed as being a magic button that spits out the thing you want when you push it. The pitch that it empowers creatives to be able to make things faster is a very transparent cover for the actual pitch: you, the person who wants to make money, wants to make a thing to sell without having to deal with those pesky creatives that want to be paid for making the thing. It is an idea whose magnetic poles draw in suckers and assholes who want to make money and don't care how.
Also, the idea that AI will empower creatives by automating things has already been covered by a whole bunch of things for decades now. It's stuff like content-aware fill, SpeedTree, terrain generators, etc.
This shit makes me cranky. Makes me feel like I'm getting snobbier and more of a gatekeeper. If you want to create a thing and don't want to pay somebody to create, then fucking learn how to do it yourself. See how long it takes to be able to make the thing you want, I'll wait. Maybe along the way you'll actually gain a human soul.
