"The same pixel-filled rectangle could contain the work of someone who spent time and energy and had the courage to perform publicly, or of someone who sits in

"The same pixel-filled rectangle could contain the work of someone who spent time and energy and had the courage to perform publicly, or of someone who sits in bed typing prompts and splicing clips in order to make a few bucks." One can imagine much the same sentence being written 100+ years ago, about the honest hard-working landscape painters we all know and love, vs the newfangled corner-cutting opportunists with their (questionably moral) "photography." Fraud is bad, and people should know what they're consuming. Artists should control what they're producing, as in this case with Youtube. That said, the underlying moral panic betrayed by the quoted sentence is completely over-the-top. Full disclosure: I don't create AI art, and I don't know anyone who does.