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here's my blog post about how people who use generative ai are deeply estranged from themselves and reality itself, their souls drifting rudderless in open water, asphyxiating www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

Yet here we are; when someone tries their hand at art and sucks, the novice artist loses interest/discouraged because of the punishment by the harsh criticism of the internet/friends. Hell, I can sometimes understand why they choose to use AI art over not trying their own hand art.

In their heads, they feel completely utterly unwelcome in the realm of creativity; so that's why they may often say to themselves, 'Fuck it; I might as well stick to AI art because I'll never be good at it, my internal voice says so, the critics say so...' or at least something of that nature.

I agree that the attention economy is certainly not helping the situation. I can remember being excited to show my drawings to literally one friend in high school, it felt way better than trying to amass followers or game the algorithm.