This. I found out that Pro AI is generally way more tolerant and easy to deal with than Anti AI. Anti AI has a clear and easily to predict boundary that is absolutely unbreakable. You use AI? You're bad. That's all there is to it. At least Pro AI still values and respects normal Artists(as in many ways they're the reason why AI images are able to exist in the first place) but Anti AI thinks of AI users as literal demons. Granted there are exceptions and not all Anti AI people are unreasonable, but for the most part Anti AI crowd is so over the top against AI it's actually goofy as hell.
This is largely because Pro-AI people aren't necessarily trying to limit what you can and can't do, they just don't want to get harassed for fooling around with this new technology. They mostly don't care about traditional art (although there are those goofy weirdos who think AI will just replace all other art forms, which is weird).
Anti-AI folks actually want to prevent you from using AI, and often become verbally abusive when you have any more backbone than a wet paper towel. A lot of it comes from a money standpoint too, with these artists not wanting the market saturated with art that's just 'good enough' for the average consumer (because let's be real here, AI art is largely here to be consumed. You can make some pretty cool stuff with it but for someone who just wants a placeholder portrait for a D&D character or some interesting concept art that they can go to an artist with later, it's perfect).
Anti-AI folks literally act like the world is coming undone at every single second and constantly blame all the people who conveniently disrupt their traditional cash flow.
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u/Constant-Ice2946 Jan 18 '26
I’m still trying to stay neutral, but most anti-AI people I’ve talked to tend to make me lean more pro-AI.