I am a digital artist, my style is similar to the fantasy themes often mimicked by AI
I think it can become a tool for artists who actually know how to weave something unique and of their own, but right now people are claiming to be artists by the power of a click and I don't think that's entirely ethical, as it wasn't ethical it was fed millions of pictures of artists without their permission. If you create in the style of, and you know the art of that person, it regurgitates and almost but no quiet copy, maybe not a pixel per pixel but enough to be an obvious copycat. I'm against AI, no, you cannot stop progress, but it cannot be a free bar at the expense of creators, and its misuse by people to claim to have done manually what they haven't and so. Magazines are now flooded with short stories written by AI claiming to be humanly written and they had to close submissions due to the overwhelm.
Technology and progress is here and cannot be stopped, I'm not saying I'm entirely against its use, but the tools right now also provide ways of misuse and in order to move forward we need to stablish some rules.
Now there are software that can steal your likeness, softwares that even can still your voices, your style, your idiosyncrasy
and these very basic things needs to be addressed or it will carry a stain
I'm in entirely for people creating elements for their compositions, or to create video backgrounds and weave and create art out of it, but people selling a print of an AI claiming they're all of a sudden artists, that is NOT ethical. I've faced even now comments, like bad AI, for drawings taht have been published since 2011, do we digital artists need to validate now we actually put our hours in? How are we going to be paid a fair share for our time if an AI can generate a "similar if not quite the same" work in a minute.
So it's a double edged sword, it is and will become a tool
but we also need to sit down and triage the rights and wrongs of its practise which will be detrimental for all creators.
RE: My opinion about AI art and a thought on society.