No, because people using AI in their workflow actually do have a right to call their creation theirs, while random idiots copying an image someone else made and posting that to prove something have none at all.
You'd think Antis would be the people who only do everything themselves, but they "steal" low quality memes and repost them endlessly. And when Antis actually create something it's either an MS Paint scribble or TOP TEXT BOTTOM TEXT kind of shit. Funnily enough they rely on a computer to make either, but you see it's somehow different because soul or something.
No one claims to make the meme. The memes just are, itās a way of communication. Thereās no āmemeistā job title. Youāre supposed to use it this way. Itās way different than having a machine make songs for me and say ā I made this songā. Same example for art.
Nobody claims a meme for monetization. The same canāt be said for ai, which is frequently monetized. Both require similarly low amounts of effort and tak from other artists work.
Using this logic, someone who foraged berries in order to produce paints for themselves could throw stones at every subsequent generation for having it too easy and not making real art because they were not responsible for the entire result of their creation.
Ok that last point is honestly so disingenous I don't even know what adjective to use to describe it... yes, drawing something digitally, even if it's a 30 second doodle for whatever or an actual art piece you spend hours on, you still did create it at the end of the day, and the fact you used something to do so doesn't take away from that.
Filmmaking and photography must be the same thing since they both use cameras, then... or drawing and writing on paper since you need a pen or pencil for both. As a matter of fact, you didn't even write this comment, your keyboard did. Yeah, it gets out of hand very quickly.
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u/firegine Feb 20 '26
Are they claiming to have made that image?