Come on kids. Go spray a Walmart or something

An honest question… a lot of artists say they are mad because AI scrapes the internet for photos and then uses the ‘knowledge’ to creat its own imagery with consent or credit. But isn’t that literally what all Artists do? Or many? Go to art school, study the greats, learn by copying their styles, then one day you become good enough to sit down and think of a ‘prompt’ in your head and make art.

I agree that AI art should be labeled as such, but I don’t think it’s any less of an art (especially when you’re working with photoshop to post process it etc) but why are artist mad about its existence and feel like there is ‘credit’ due?

Not trying to be contrarian, looking for a conversation and input from artists.

You mean… from away? Gross