Coexistence of ai art and human art
To start off, i am pro ai, i love ai art, enjoy using comfyui specifically, on my own hardware. It gives me chill and i have fun making art. Yet still, i believe that human art is much more valuable, it takes much more time and effort. But i think it should not invalidate effort put into ai artwork too, learning prompting, loras, controlnets and etc. is still a process that takes time, brain power and lots of reading and experimentation. Yet still i believe that ai should not be monetized, and artists shoud keep their jobs and places. Small portions of ai in work is fine to monetize i think, it just made things a bit easier, like ai images in youtube video or thumbnail.
Im explicitly against ai companies, those who use ai to steal people data, it is very wrong in my eyes.
Generative ai in my opinion is a thing that should be a niche space for people who're actually interested in ai specifically, like CivitAi users, ai models and stuff made by people, for people and completely free. Ai should stay free and open source, yet not used for money gain. That way, true pro-ai people will keep their comfort space, and artists will not lose anything because of it.
I believe ai art is not art theft (unless monetized). Artwork used for training is still under fair use, and works mostly as a reference, which is completely fine. It is hard to find individual artwork when dozens of it are blend together to make something entirely new.
No people should get harrased over enjoying stuff they like when it doesn't hurt anyone