Caught myself defending AI art on Reddit until someone posted the original artist's work side by side

Honestly I was deep in the AI art camp for like 6 months, posting all these defenses about how it's just a tool and everyone's scared of progress. Then last Tuesday some user in this very community dropped a comparison of my favorite AI-generated piece against the actual oil painting it was trained on without credit. The original took the artist 80 hours and you could see the brush strokes and tiny details the AI just smeared into noise. That moment hit me different because I realized I'd been hyping up something that was basically plagiarism with extra steps. I still think AI has some use cases but I can't unsee how it just remixes real people's work. Has anyone else had that gut check moment where you had to admit you were on the wrong side of this debate?

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barbaraw4717d ago

Deleting my old AI posts was the fastest I've ever changed my mind about anything.

derek_schmidt617d ago

I did the same thing. I went back through about three months of posts and just hit delete on anything that felt too much like a chatbot wrote it. It was actually pretty freeing, like cleaning out a closet you've been meaning to get to. I started using a simple rule for myself, if I wouldn't say it to someone's face in a coffee shop, I don't post it. I also stopped using any tool that tries to "help" me write better. It just feels more honest now, even if my grammar is a little rough around the edges.