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I think it's more a lack of historical perspective on the part of artists. I remember when Photoshop and other digital art tools became available and many artists were of the opinion "Feh! Digital art isn't really art. Real artists work with pens, brushes, and paper!". Fast forward a couple of decades and you won't find many artists still saying that. Instead they've embraced the tools. I expect the future won't be AI art vs human art but rather a hybrid as art tools incorporate the technique and artists won't think it is any less art than using other digital tools.

>>jhbadg+(OP)
the issue at hand has nothing to do with gatekeeping, elitism or any kind of psued debate about what constitutes real art.

people are mad because job & portfolio sites are being flooded with aishit which is making them unusable for both artists and clients .

people are mad because their copyright is being scraped and resold for profit by third parties without their consent.

whether ai is the future is an utterly meaningless distraction until these concerns are addressed. as an aside, ai evangelists telling working professionals that they 'simply don't get' their field of expertise has been an incredibly poor tact for generating goodwill towards this technology or the operations attempting to extract massive profit from it's implementation.