I'm so sick of people pretending that using AI defines someone. I see it all the time in anti-AI groups. They will literally call someone a horrible person who wants to see the world burn because they generated one image using AI. Mind you, someone they don't even know anything about. Someone that doesn't want to see the world burn and doesn't think anti-AI people should die or something ridiculous, just someone who generated a cute dog image with ChatGPT. It's honestly kind of disgusting how quickly people will throw deep insults at you for using AI.
And since I saw another post talking about this, I want to mention it here too: a lot of AI art is just objectively better than human-made art. For example, if you go on any subreddit about how "AI art is not art", you will see thousands and thousands of people posting images they made in about 2 minutes consisting of poorly drawn lines and block colours. 5 years ago, people would have simply called this "bad art". But now? Even when it's clear that they put much less effort into it than the average prompter puts into their prompts? "This is so beautiful, love to see human made art that has a SOUL". It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
The last thing I want to mention in this post, arguably the one that relates most to the title: leaving someone behind over their use of AI is incredibly fake. I've seen countless posts saying stuff like "my dad used ai, so I cut him off" or "my best friend of 12 years makes ai images so I blocked him on all socials". And these posts get hundreds or thousands of upvotes. And frankly I don't get it. If you are willing to cut someone off on a moment's notice because they use AI, there is no way you cared about their companionship in the first place. Either that or you are way too far gone in extremism.
This is my first post here because I've recently made a new account to be able to post stuff without people looking at my post history like the creeps they are. Thank you for reading :)