Yeah, I agree with that, nothing wrong with people generating images for their own satisfaction and even sharing them as long as they're clearly tagged as AI ge

Yeah, I agree with that, nothing wrong with people generating images for their own satisfaction and even sharing them as long as they're clearly tagged as AI generated. Just like how computer assisted chess is allowed to be its own competitive thing called 'Advanced Chess'. However, just yesterday I came across someone trying really hard to play at being a pro artist, trying to show recordings of their drawing and painting process when they were obviously using AI (by roughly tracing over the AI image, masking the AI image underneath, then recording themselves erasing the mask, revealing the AI image underneath). In certain artistic sub-fields I'm interested in, like with anime art, I've seen a lot of vitriol thrown around by AI 'artists' because they haven't been through the learning process through which they could empathize with actual artists and the basic courtesies that exist in the community. This has been largely responsible for my negative opinion on the social value of recent developments in AI generated content. To give some examples, there was an incident where an artist had been streaming themselves drawing something, only for someone to take the incomplete image from the stream, have an AI 'finish' it and post it as their own before the stream even finished. Then there was a more serious incident where someone finetuned a model on a specific popular artist's work and started to sell generated images under the original artist's name. This one ended with the site hosting the content having to change their rules to ban monetization of AI art.