This happens a lot in music. It's okay to listen to music that serves other purposes than art. Gatekeeping is ridiculous.

I'm a musician. I play more instruments than you can even name correctly. I can make a tritonus substitution without you even noticing. I don't give a shit if German Schlager Music is worse than country. If I want to watch Eurovision and enjoy myself and pay to vote for songs in foreign languages, I will do so.

You cannot stop me from enjoying stupid music.

I honestly think it's pretty weird that people don't like AI art memes.

That's its best case use, guys. Making a computer burn down an acre of Amazon to make a picture of Trump worshipping Putin's cock.

Yes, a real artist could waste their skill doing it, but why tho?

Wee! Haha! Fun!!

sounds of a dozen methane gas generators humming away

If only there was a way to make funny pictures without AI...

Hey, as long as you don't try to

• Sell it
• Claim it's yours
• Use it instead of hiring professionals if you're a business

not too fussed.

Nearly nobody is arguing against using AI for personal fun.

People are arguing against AI destroying entire career segments without providing benefit to society, especially to those displaced. People are arguing against how it so easily misleads people, especially when used as a learning aid. People are arguing against the enormous resource usage.

I was gonna go ahead and argue about this, but sadly I have been depicted as a soyjak. My lawyers told me that there is literally nothing I can do about this now

That's great! These things are super fun. Just don't call yourself an artist or try to copyright your generations. That's like pretending to be a musician because you're good at Guitar Hero.

Another big argument is the large resource and environmental cost of AI. I'd rather laugh at a shitty photoshop or ms paint meme (like this one) than a funny image created in some water-hogging energy-guzzling server warehouse.

Since Gen art became a thing i've been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It's so fucking fun man.