[mjr00]

> This is definitely speculative and a little catty, but I suspect a lot of "hatred" of AI art is a) emotional solidarity with working artists who feel economically threatened by it, and b) a personal sense of insecurity along the lines of "what if I love this piece and it turns out to be AI - does that make me a boring NPC/a chump? better reject it as fiercely as possible to avoid introspection!"

Strongly disagree, just take a look at the AI-generated tag on pixiv[0] -- it's 99% same-looking garbage, and since there's no barrier to generating, uploaders flood pixiv with tons of images. Browsing tags is basically unusable without it being filtered out.

[0] - https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/AI-generated/artworks mildly nsfw if you're not logged in, very nsfw if you are. (edit: note that this isn't a lot because pixiv later added a meta-tag for AI art so it's possible for users to filter without pixiv premium; that's how much it was hated.)