i fucking hate "AI" art but sometimes i see people on "my side" of this sort of imply (maybe accidentally, a lot of the time) that any art that just exists to be pretty is invalid somehow and that all art has to have some kind of deep meaning or be some unprecedented act of creativity/uniqueness. and like. i think it is very human and valid to not always have brain on. i think "ooooo pretty" is a worthy pursuit in itself. i love folk art. i love kitsch. and whether you are drawing something very emotionally meaningful for you or going "tee hee" and painting pretty little flowers onto a dollar store flower pot for no other reason than you felt the impulse to do so, you are doing a thing that humans have always done. i think it's important not to denigrate human art while we rightfully speak out against the mushification of it by shitty tech bros.
the problem with AI art isn’t that it’s bad, it’s whose labor is being exploited for whose benefit

