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I feel like this is a bit like the whole thing with "do submarines swim?"

I'm not interested in the question of whether an image I make with AI is art or not. I've written decent fiction in my time. Maybe here and there I inhabit the artistic category of "an unpublished genre fiction author." But I can't draw or paint or any of that stuff better than a reasonably talented 11 year old, and I'm 52. If I had artistic pretensions it's not happening.

But once in a while I want to see an image that I can't make and, well, AI boom boom yes here we go.

I don't claim that's art. I don't claim that the AI is an artist any more than I claim that a submarine is swimming. Those categories are irrelevant to my interest, which is simple.

I wish I was artistically talented so I could do stuff and now I can do some of that stuff without being artistically talented.

I feel good about this. It makes me feel better in the world.

Are we going to take this away from billions of people to protect people who can draw and have some training?