I haven't checked on things here in a while (aside from Notes), but I'll get to it soon as I can. For the time being, allow me to bring to FA a post I just made on my socials but that got a far more elaborated version as a Journal on my DA. You can read it on my DA through this link: https://www.deviantart.com/mike-dra.....Art-1291243405

AI "art" is like going to a McDonald's, ordering a meal, receive a tray with your order, face the other customers, show them your ordered meal and shout: "HEY GUYS, LOOK! I MADE THIS BURGER! I'M A COOK!"

You didn't make it just because you ordered someone else to make it for you.

"AI makes art more accessible." Literally millions of years ago, cavemen who probably didn't even know how to make fire yet, they were drawing. There is literally 0 excuse (let alone a logical one), to justify AI "art". Even less so to even imply art isn't accessible without it. If you have a PC, you can make art. If you have a smartphone, you can make art. If you have a tablet, you can make art. If you have a pencil or pen and paper, you can make make art. Hell, even if you don't, even if all you've got is a pebble or a stick and a concrete floor or dirt ground, you can make art. "Ooh, but I don't know who to make art." You'll never know if you never start. All that it takes is for you to take the first step. You'll never learn how to ride a bike if you are afraid to fall. You'll never learn how to drive a car if you are afraid to crash. You'll never learn to swim if you are afraid to drown. You'll never learn how to make art if you never try because you think you can't. But you can! Do like cavemen, if need be, but do it! Become the artist you think your AI makes you. Stop living a lie and join the millions who can create amazing things out of nothing but a simple and mere fleeting thought. Let your imagination take over your hands. You have imagination, you can create, so use it! AI does not have it, it never will and it cannot create, only copy and modify. You want to be treated and respected as an artist? Then actually become one!

Yes, you will stumble and fall many times, even hate your creations for a while and think you are garbage, every artist goes through that. But like falling off from your bike when learning: Keep on getting back on that bike after every fall and keep on trying gives you experience, it teaches you. But you'll never learn and get good at it if you don't do it. Want to become an artist, maybe even a good artist? Never. Stop. Drawing. Even if what comes out seem to suck.

https://youtu.be/V4qQgcjQfkY