i'm more of an user of the Other site, and a "real" artist who draws, but I sympathize with this userbase. I simply do not believe "AI training" is theft (and a lot of art is derivative anyways. proposing draconian copyright laws disguised as protecting against AI would just be absolutely terrible for ALL fanart) or that an individual user's usage of AI causes significant environmental harm (it doesn't, companies do though)
much like most things in life, there's a lot of nuance to things than simply "AI bad"
unfortunately people will be reactionary no matter what, and sometimes a moral panic will get them what they want. i guarantee we WILL be looking back at this discourse and remember it as having gone the exact same way as when the photo camera was invented. "90% of everything is crap" was already true before AI, too
don't let this discourage y'all. give it time

ps: for anyone looking for likeminded individuals, the AWAY collective is a pretty nice community and resource.

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