[LeoPanthera]

> it's a relatively small but extremely loud contingent of people that have meltdowns over AI-generated images and video.

That's not my experience at all. Hacker News is indeed an echo chamber, but sometimes things escape, and discussion of how much people hate AI "art" is becoming increasingly common among my non-tech friends. The earliest example most people point to is the Christmas Coca-Cola commercial.

[ronsor]

Do people really hate it, or is it bandwagoning? When OpenAI added image generation to GPT-4o, the "ghiblification" trend took off and most people seemed to enjoy it for memes and jokes.

Furthermore I've never really encountered people IRL who hate AI art. The vast majority seem to be neutral towards it.

[happytoexplain]

All of the two-dozen-or-so people I know closely hate AI art - hate. Not as a tool, e.g. for making images to go with your DnD campaign or whatever - that's great - but rather as replacements for human art. E.g. as blog post images, movie posters, images uploaded to art hubs, etc. They also mostly hate the way it usually looks.

[ilaksh]

Wouldn't a human normally make the D&D characters though?

Also, do they hate all AI art, or just art where they can tell because it looks like AI art?

[crooked-v]

The "make" here is referring to representative art (for use with battle map standees if nothing else), where the previous common method is "grab a loosely representative image from a web search".