People do not respect artists and with the internet and digital art making it the easiest time in human history to get art, people feel entitled to art. They don’t respect the time and effort that artists put into creating something and don’t think that their skills are worth paying for, even when they’re demanding that they produce content for them.
In this regard, GenAI has become a real plague because the kinds of people who would make great middle managers - taking credit for the effort of others - now have access to the skill required to make “good art” without having to pay for nor respect the labor required. GenAI lets your average person treat artists the way that corporations treat their employees.
The best and most basic way to fight that, at least as a hobbyist, is to just keep handmaking stuff like you’ve always done before GenAI became a blight on the creative world, that way you’ll at least hold the line on some metric, plus making stuff is still fun, particularly with traditional media, (paints, crayons, etc, whatever your jam is) regardless.
People do not respect artists and with the internet and digital art making it the easiest time in human history to get art, people feel entitled to art. They don’t respect the time and effort that artists put into creating something and don’t think that their skills are worth paying for, even when they’re demanding that they produce content for them.
In this regard, GenAI has become a real plague because the kinds of people who would make great middle managers - taking credit for the effort of others - now have access to the skill required to make “good art” without having to pay for nor respect the labor required. GenAI lets your average person treat artists the way that corporations treat their employees.
The best and most basic way to fight that, at least as a hobbyist, is to just keep handmaking stuff like you’ve always done before GenAI became a blight on the creative world, that way you’ll at least hold the line on some metric, plus making stuff is still fun, particularly with traditional media, (paints, crayons, etc, whatever your jam is) regardless.