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Being anti-AI is an oppositional stance. There are plenty of people who have valid concerns about AI--concerns that, in some cases, I share--but who do not oppose the existence of AI tools.

You can have legal concerns, technical concerns, societal concerns, all sorts of concerns. Maybe you want more regulation. So does Sam Altman, and he's far from anti-AI. Maybe you want to think about how the general enshitification created by capitalist imperatives will be accelerated by AI--me too!

The anti-AI position is NOT the null hypothesis here.

On a related note, they're not artists. Some of them are. But being anti-AI doesn't mean you're an artist and being an artist doesn't mean you're anti-AI. They're disjoint sets. (edit: wrong term: they're overlapping, but not equivalent sets)

So if you're not completely okay with AI, but you have no particular desire to tell other people what to do with technology, then you don't have to throw your lot in with the antis. The rest of use aren't necessarily all-in on AI either. The choice is between stomping on others' artistic expression or not. You don't have to think Piss Christ is a great piece of art to not be anti-art, and you don't have to think that Midjourney users are great artists to not be anti-AI.

I mean even if you manage to get limits to what companies can do with AI, you realize that dones't actually do anything really? There are billions of people on the planet that can still use said AI anyways. While its easier to try and stop a company, you are going to have an impossible time stopping billions of people.

For example I've seen artists say they would be happy with AI art generators were removed from online. You do realize its to late though right? In my case I use Stable Diffusion. I have it on my computer (two versions actually).

Anyone can use it if they want from their PC, assuming they have a PC able to run it. Though it doesn't require a high end gaming rig of course. Point is, even if you think there is some winning outcome with your fight against AI, your basically trying to put out a house fire with a squirt gun.

The fire has spread to much already. The genie is out of the bottle. And we all know that if there is one thing the internet is good at, its still doing what it wants. The entertainment industry still hasn't stopped piracy. People still haven't stopped the corrupt and evil stuff on the dark web....etc.

In the end, you can fight AI all you want, but honestly your waisting so much of your life doing so. Enjoy your life. Find something to do. Do something meaningful. Heck, go draw as that is what enjoy. Who knows what great piece you could be drawing right now if you weren't preoccupied with hating AI.