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"A brush or a camera does not create anything for you... this does it for you" This is complete nonsense and shows you know nothing about modern photography or digital art. A camera absolutely creates images "for you" through automatic exposure calculation, autofocus systems, color processing algorithms, digital noise reduction, HDR processing, face detection, and scene optimization. Modern cameras perform thousands of computational operations per second. Digital art software has brush stabilization, perspective correction, automatic color mixing, and countless automated features. Are digital artists not real artists because the computer "does the work"? Your arbitrary distinction makes zero sense. "You still have to be talented in order to use the tools like a brush or camera... when it comes to AI you don't have to have talent at all" You're confusing different types of skill and revealing your own ignorance about AI art creation. Skilled AI artists understand composition, color theory, artistic direction, prompt engineering, parameter manipulation, model selection, and curation abilities. Just because the skills are different doesn't mean they don't exist. Your own terrible traditional art that you showed actually proves my point , having access to tools doesn't automatically make you talented. The same applies to AI. Plenty of people generate garbage AI art because they lack artistic vision and technical understanding. "I've personally generated hundreds of silly AI art pieces... anybody can do it if you have a keyboard" And anybody can press a camera shutter, pick up a paintbrush, or download Photoshop. Accessibility doesn't negate artistic potential. Photography became more accessible with digital cameras and automatic settings. That didn't make it less of an art form, it just allowed more people to participate. Your logic would eliminate most modern art mediums. Should we go back to hand-mixing pigments because buying pre-made paint is "too easy"? "Here let me just showcase the difference between real art and AI art" Your comparison between your awful traditional art and decent AI art actually proves the opposite of your intended point. It shows that different tools enable different people to express their creativity effectively. Some people excel with traditional media, others with digital tools, others with AI assistance. The fact that you can create better-looking work with AI than with traditional tools doesn't invalidate AI , it shows the tools are working as intended, allowing people to realize their creative vision regardless of manual dexterity limitations. "It's when you try and sell it and try and license it and copyright it that people take an issue" So your real problem isn't with AI art itself, but with the economic implications. This isn't an artistic argument, it's about market competition and you're upset that new tools are disrupting traditional art economics. Photographers faced identical resistance when they started competing with portrait painters in the 1800s. "Real artists" complained that photography was "mechanical reproduction" that would destroy "authentic" art. Sound familiar? Regarding the Jason Allen copyright case, the courts got this wrong, and their reasoning is inconsistent with established copyright law. Copyright protects original expressions of ideas, not the tools used to create them. The key factors are human creativity, selection, and arrangement, all of which Allen demonstrated. The court's logic is deeply flawed because it focuses on the mechanism of creation rather than human creative input. Allen made creative choices in prompt crafting, selected from multiple generations, arranged compositions, and edited the final work. This involves the same type of creative decision-making that copyright law traditionally protects. The court essentially ruled that if a tool is "too sophisticated," human creative input becomes irrelevant, which is legally and philosophically nonsensical. "AI art is trained on real artists work... blatantly stealing their work" This is hypocritical nonsense that reveals your double standard. Every human artist "trains" by studying existing work. Art students copy masters, musicians learn covers, writers read literature, and every creative person builds on previous cultural knowledge. If learning from existing work constitutes "stealing," then all human creativity is theft. You studied other artists' techniques when you made your terrible portraits, were you "stealing" from them? AI systems analyze patterns in existing work the same way human artists do, just more systematically. The difference is scale and method, not fundamental principle. "I have hundreds of artistic ideas and visions in my head that I can never bring to life cuz I'm not a talented artist" You just accidentally made the strongest possible case FOR AI art. If someone has genuine artistic vision but lacks technical execution skills, why shouldn't they use tools that help them express that vision? You're essentially arguing that art should be gatekept by manual dexterity rather than creative insight. This is like saying only people who can hand-build engines should be allowed to race cars. "Companies are going to be shifting to AI art because it's cheaper" This is the only legitimate concern you've raised, but it's not an argument against AI art being "real art", it's an economic disruption argument. Every technological advancement displaces some workers while creating new opportunities. Photography didn't eliminate all portrait painters, it created the entire photography industry. Digital art didn't eliminate traditional art, it created new categories of digital artists. AI art will likely follow the same pattern. "If Jason was just a little more honest with himself like hey I just kind of type sentences into mid journey" This reveals your fundamental misunderstanding of both the creative process and copyright law. Jason Allen spent months refining his prompts, generated hundreds of variations, made curatorial decisions, and edited the final work. Reducing this to "typing sentences" is like saying photographers "just press buttons" or painters "just move brushes around." Your entire video boils down to: "I'm bad at traditional art, therefore anyone who uses different tools to create better art than me isn't a real artist." It's pure sour grapes disguised as artistic philosophy. The irony is that you've created more compelling arguments for AI art than against it, while demonstrating exactly the kind of gatekeeping mentality that has tried to exclude every new artistic medium throughout history.