Raw LLM Responses

Dani your use of the word "y'all" implies to me that you are not an artist... So I'm not sure you are entirely qualified to make such confident statements on our opinions. Listen, I'm not against AI art, I think it could be a great tool for animators to help with tweening and for artists in general to help speed up tedious processes and therefore be able to focus on the parts of creating art that are more enjoyable to us, but the way these AI programs have been created is extremely sketchy and extremely distasteful. There's a big difference between an artist looking at another artist's work for inspiration to create something, and an AI directly USING that work to create something, especially when the people who created said AI did not ask for permission and are now profiting from it. It's like the difference between an oil painting on a canvas and a collage of magazine clippings, both can be made into whatever image you like, but any imagery in the painting had to be created by the artist themselves, whilst the collage directly utilises the photography and graphic design works of someone else to create its imagery. I know this tech is new and exciting and seems super futuristic, but if we don't slow down and really examine *how* and *why* technology is being developed, it can only lead to serious issues in the long run. Tbh, I probably would've gladly turned over my work to help program something so cool, and if it was an open source kinda thing, I'd probably have done it for free, so the stealing thing is just so unnecessarily mean-spirited, and really shows the true intentions behind these AIs... they weren't created as a helpful tool for the advancement of humanity, they were created to make a profit.