Raw LLM Responses

I like your points, very thorough thinking. Personally, I have used AI Images to illustrate a large private project while it is still in the stages of finding themes, structures and scope. Not even always for reference, but for sheer motivation, because my visual imagination pretty much doesnt exist and looking at pics that vaguely read as my idea gives me certainty *that* what I'm doing will work one day if I manage to bring it all together. Fast prototyping, so to speak. I never understood why people feel computer generated [anything] should philosophically devaluate human art. The same discussion existed when synthesizers were invented, and it endures somehow, in a world were everyone and their mother has listened to lofi in some way. I am not a fine artist, really way more on the technical "how do I efficiently get my product done" side here. My take: If the value of an artpiece comes from the creativity, technique and vision in it, and the effort to achieve that, then the AI image lacks essential points here and can never be as valuable as art made by even a beginner artist. People who appreciate art for this intrinsic value will continue to do so, no? In my opinion it's a point born out of insecurity. The value my art has *to* me comes *from* myself. The value it has to others comes from whatever their value system is. There will always be someone who doesn't care. Rant over :3