AI cannot make art. It can never be art. It literally isn’t human. The use of AI to create “art” has about the same artistic value as someone ordering a pizza online. Writing key words and the names of real artists in a text box and having an unfeeling robot spit out an image for you will never make you an artist. It is an algorithmic aggregator of actual art by humans. It is fundamentally theft. Human artists looking at art and incorporating it into their works is not the same as how AI trains on stolen art, because humans aren’t godless abominations like AI, and we have to spend actual effort and hard work on learning from other artists, whereas an unliving AI only calculates the patterns it is programmed to observe in a database of a billion images and randomizes the pixels. You cannot look me in the eye and tell me that is in any way comparable to how real human artists learn. If I own a bonsai nursery and employ a hundred tree shapers, tell them all to create a right leaning bend, no limbs inside the bend, from a dragon maple, I will get a hundred different results; and even if they are all legally my trees on paper, each tree had a different artist: except in the case of AI you can’t even legally own it, so it’s doubly worthless aside from being a hollow shell of what real art looks like. This isn’t gatekeeping: art has an accepted dictionary definition, and AI can never fulfill the requirements of that definition. AI images will never be art. You will never be an artist unless you pick up a pencil and draw. People will see the images you generated and they will always know that they aren’t real. You’ll never have any way to prove the validity of your “work,” because it will never be valid to begin with. You will never be a real artist unless you get off your lazy ass and learn how to make real art. Thirty years from now people will appreciate hand-made art infinitely more than whatever soulless tripe a corporate robot can generate. Real art will never die and you cannot kill it. Nothing will ever change this.