Forgive for being blunt but this pic is currently an example of one of the worst AI image generations. It’s very easy to spot even without zooming in. Currently there are models that are doing such a good job it’s hard to tell even after examining the fine details.
So I should be fine with the good ones right? After all if you can tell the difference then then it should be treated like a real art? … No! Even though I have to admit that some of them are really stunning visually I’m still very much against it. Why? Because I know how it works and that it’s highly unethical.
Image generation models are trained on art made by humans, this is probably a common knowledge, humans also learn from others but the difference is that human can create it’s own artstyle. AI usually copy some existing artstyle and creates a “drawing” based on that style. It’s very important to mention that this happens without the author’s permission! Not only that, many artists are very against AI training on their art but people do it anyway. This creates a very unpleasant reality where you spent years and years learning to draw, making your own style only to get that style stolen by machine that now can generate anything in a few seconds.
Someone might say: “So what? It’s called progress!”
No it’s not. This machine is nothing without artists and it is actively trying to put them out of their job.
Until AI (Or rather AGI) can create its own unique style not based on anything made before I’m going to hate it. But even if one day AI can create ethically something perfectly made for humans to enjoy I still don’t know if I want to consume things without a soul.

Not to say I hate AI in general. I think it’s a very cool technology but it should be used as a tool to help people not to replace them.

So yeah, I don’t want to see it because if it’s bad it’s ugly and soulless and if it’s good it’s just some artist’s work reproduced without permission.

Small note that I used to post AI “art” too but that was before I knew how it works. I used to think it’s ok if people put work to improve and retouch the generated image. But the more I learn the more I’m against it.

If you really want to post AI slop then there are places that focus exclusively on AI. I use 3 different frontends for lemmy and not all of them support filters. If AI would flood this sub I’m just unsubscribing.