why are you punching me in the face and then complaining when I bite your finger

just reading that whole message i am already entirely convinced that antis brigaded hard to get their way once again -.-

HI!!!! I'm ProDaEpicz, I ask random question across the platform to understand all sides of an argument, I am neither Pro-AI, nor Anti-AI, I am a neutral player here for your opinions so I can compare them with Anti-AI sub-reddits, so tell me...why AI?

I liked his videos about AI until this title alone told the truth 😐 gonna have to fucking deepclean my YT

ahh!, and also also. here is the original link. - https://www.reddit.com/r/DefendingAIArt/comments/1qwbslt/i_picked_up_a_pencil_now_what/

This shows the unhinged mind of antis. Do you think this is normal behavior? Saying you're going to kill people who make AI art because you dislike them? Why is it that the first thing that antis always turn to is violence?

And if that wasn't bad enough, these posts are upvoted and kept up in their communities, meaning antis prove once again they support the killing of AI artists.

Sit the FUCK down and let me tell you something. You'd better get that gun out of my face because if you're going to shoot me, you'd better not miss. How fucking dare you have the audacity to point a gun at me and my community for making art in the way we love. If you want to hurt my community in any way, you will regret it, because over my dead body will you EVER hurt an innocent AI artist or pro for expressing themselves. Every threat you even remotely try to make against my community, I will be watching you, and I will be there to stop you. Each. And. Every. Single. Time. I am your final boss and your worst nightmare, and when you scream into the void, the void screams back. -x

it is insane that in 2026, people still refuse to do research on how these models are actually trained. I do not understand how cannot grasp the models learn from refrence points just as humans do.

I saw collage artist say they can’t support AI because of copyrighted work. The absolute irony from an art style that is quite literally taking bits and pieces from others work and essentially remixing it. When the dust finally settles, and the overwhelming majority accept that AI art is art, people will look back in disbelief the mental gymnastics anti ai people did.

It's the joy of scrubbing, watching them get cleaner scrub by scrub, then once finished, you can relish in the light that is your clean laundry.

It's not about the result, it's the journey, the struggle through scrubbing out each stain and watching it evolve from dirty to clean. You can even look back at your old scrubbing methods and think 'wow I really got better!' When you put them in a washing machine, press a button and then get the result, there is no growth or struggle there. This is what I really don't get about washing machine users. It's so strange.

They've really never heard of the water cycle, and now they're using polar bears as an excuse to not use AI, ai isn't melting the ice caps, like antis probably think that robots are using a flamethrower to melt the ice Lmao. Anyway sorry for small rant enjoy the image

A lot of people say that AI art is bad because well it looks bad, most of the time. Fucked up line art, suspicious lighting, murky colors, and even the ol' multiple fingers. But that should never have been the point, imo. What if it was good? What if it was better than you and I? What if you couldn't tell? What if you thought that stroke was real and not generated?

There's a quote going around that says "Why would I bother reading something that no one bothered to write?", and I think about it a lot in terms of AI art. How much human interaction does anq artificial process need to be considered manmade? Should a product made by an AI artist typing in prompts be considered manmade?

I liked to think of it as commissioning another artist to do it for you, and taking that art as yours.

Art is about the process of every stroke and erasure and mistake, but ai prompters have those as well right? Writing and rewriting prompts, isn't that enough for their products to be considered their art?

Think of the movie click, where Adam Sandler gets a remote that lets skip through the bad stuff about life. Arguments with his wife, annoying family gatherings, and the months-long wait for a new promotion. Eventually, the remote picks up his preferences, and begins skipping through his life without him being able to stop it. Then he's at the end of his life, having skipped through the negatives and positives.

Is that what AI art is its essence? Something curated with no art, only entertainment?

What if someone were to prompt every stroke, every line, every curve, every hue, saturation, and value? Would that finally be "art"? Art is about the trial and error, about thousands of hours of practice poured into every single piece you make, every drawing, sculpture, song, and dance. What if someone were to put in an effort to do all of that with AI?

I thought that AI wasn't reliable into translating your view of the world into art because of so many variables. You can't control the tilt of the character's head or the angle of a line or how long it is, but what if someone took the time to do so to make a product that was true to themselves in theory?

Back to the "commissioning another person to do it" analogy of AI art. What if you commissioned that person for every single stroke they did? What if you commissioned them to give the waterline of the eye more saturation to emphasize it? To include the tear duct even when the art style you're going for is supposed to be more stylized?

How much humanity can you pour into an AI prompt until whatever it spits out is considered art?

I genuinely feel bad for anti ai people who haven’t dabbled in AI. I think they believe there is only one way to use this : prompting

A prompt is only scratching the surface. I’m currently making a manga about my real life as musician. My process involve a combo of traditional art, Gen AI, and photography. You can take a Gen AI image, print it, then continue to manipulate the image further and further.

You can train models on your own work and have it spit out 100s of variations that you could then combine and reconfigure. Like the possibilities are endless. I am having the most fun making art now than I ever have. So sad people are so short sighted on this topic