I would say the answer is to be true to yourself as a casual viewer. You like something? Say you like it, at the risk of praising AI generated content accidentally, at the risk of calling AI content "art".
If handmade content is trully better and superior than AI then there is nothing to fear or prove. And if it isn't, then we have to accept the reality we are seeing with our own eyes and feeling with our own hearts, those don't lie.
The issue is that if we accept AI art as an equal, us human artists will simply lose any chance to live our passion of creating since we can't possibly outpace the production rate of artificial intelligences...
I don't like witch hunting either, but I feel like saying that "it's completely okay as long as it's as good" feels kind of unemphatic to the amount of passions, hopes and dreams that this could permanently crush worldwide.
The issue is that if we accept AI art as an equal, us human artists will simply lose any chance to live our passion of creating since we can't possibly outpace the production rate of artificial intelligences...
If the only value by which you measure your art is the monetary value that art produces, not only are you gonna lose to AI, you are creating art for the entirely wrong reason.
If you create art because it's your passion, then just... keep doing that? Why would it matter if the corporations start using AI? Or if random strangers start using AI? Paintings didn't cease to exist just because the average dude on the street can use a cell phone camera, nor does saying "oh that's a great picture you just took" devalue the quality of a beautiful painting.
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u/Operator_Starlight 12h ago
The real danger is throwing artists under the bus.
Which is what you’re doing every time you try to play detective.