I'm totally onboard with you.
What the AI "artists" don't realise, is they are cutting their own throats. When there is flood of content, it becomes harder to stand out from the rest. Yawn, boring...
Ultimately, I believe the trend will be back towards traditional forms of artwork, where you can prove you actually created it by hand.
It was thought that photography would kill painting, it never did, as there is a world of difference between the two mediums.
However online, yes it will become difficult to differentiate between human and AI "art". AI is limited to the screen. In the off screen real world, it is plainly evident who the real artists are.
Looking at the developments in 3D printing, this may not stay that way. How hard can it be to have a machine fake the dynamics of a brush stroke on canvas?
I have always been a proponent of technology. Now we're entering an age where machines get to decide who lives and who dies. Time to revise my opinion.
Because you can film the artist painting the painting as evidence. The painting could be painted with witnesses or in front of the public. The artist could add a strand of hair, a drop of blood as a DNA signature.
Yes, that part, the AI deciding who lives and who dies, seems to be lost on the many people who like their shiny new play thing.
What do you say to a blind or disabled child or man with parkinsons who coudl never hope to make "real" art on their own, and have to depend on midjourney,a nd feel very proud of what they have made?
WHy not help them to further customize it instead of saying to the blind man on midjourney"Youre slitting your own throat here, you hajve no soul! Yorue cheating! Youll NEVER be an artist" Thats very harsh to tell certain fgellow humans who are just trying to have fun and feel like they can be an artist too
SOme peopel also may be terminally ill, dying, why not give them teh beenfit of teh doubt, find ways to make prompts based on codces generated fropm theri actual curated art styles, to make something base don theri face too maybe, or brush styles takenm from a neurofeedback EEG device, non invasive neuralink pbasically, to MAKE teh ai art even mroe4 customzied, showing us what this person MIGHT have been able to make in anotehr life without theri disability?
I think you are being too harsh and its not worth throwing disabled blind persons ai midjourney art in the trash, and destroying teh small ego boost theyc an get, just to preserve some misguided ideal of the aesthetic perfection liek some art borg lol