Anti-AI art folks don't care if you photobashed bits of AI composition and then totally painted over it in your own hand, the fact that AI was involved makes it dirty, evil, nasty, sinful and bad. Full stop. Anti-AI writing agents don't care if every word in a manuscript was human written, if you asked AI a question while writing it suddenly you're darth fucking vader.
The correct comparison for some jackass who just prompts something, then runs around calling it art is to a pre-schooler that scribbles blobs of indistinct color on a page, then calls it art. Compare apples to apples.
That's not what a strawman is lol. Me saying the analogy sucks is just criticism.
If you feel judged about using AI, then your choices are (1) don't use it or (2) don't tell people you use it or (3) stop caring what other people think.
Have the courage of your own convictions and own your own actions.
Anti-AI art folks don't care if you photobashed bits of AI composition and then totally painted over it in your own hand, the fact that AI was involved makes it dirty, evil, nasty, sinful and bad. Full stop. Anti-AI writing agents don't care if every word in a manuscript was human written, if you asked AI a question while writing it suddenly you're darth fucking vader.
The correct comparison for some jackass who just prompts something, then runs around calling it art is to a pre-schooler that scribbles blobs of indistinct color on a page, then calls it art. Compare apples to apples.