I finally stopped defending AI art and started using it for thumbnails

I used to be one of those people who would argue that AI art was just stolen pixels and had no soul. I spent like 6 months calling out every AI piece I saw on DeviantArt, getting into arguments in comment sections. Then my buddy who runs a small gaming channel asked me to help him make thumbnails, and I spent 3 hours trying to photoshop a decent space background. He just typed a prompt into Midjourney and had something usable in 90 seconds. I still think there are ethical issues, but after that day I realized I was being a gatekeeper about tools instead of focusing on the final result. Has anyone else had a moment where they had to eat their words about AI tools?

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felixfisher26d ago

Yeah, that hits hard. Tools are just tools at the end of the day.

gonzalez.reese26d ago

Tools are just tools" until the wrong hands get ahold of them.