> We've got no idea what they're working on. Might be slop. Might be the AI mona lisa :P
It doesn't really matter if you make the worst AI slop, or the best AI slop, because it is AI slop regardless. AI is a) intrinsically uncreative and b) plagiarizes with impunity. If I download the Mona Lisa from Wikipedia, print it on a poster and claim that I painted it, that would not make me a great artist. If you use AI to steal from other artists, the same thing goes: the result is not yours and it does not matter how good it is.
> I dunno man... I read the OP and I read your stuff and I feel like you're doing a pretty good job of proving that might not be true. Just sayin.
Stealing from other artists, spamming your AI slop in communities that categorically do not want to see it, and then whinging about it online are bad things even if you use polite language to talk about them.
Being polite does not make you morally justified, and if you do something shitty and other people get angry about it, that does not suddenly turn you from the perpetrator to the victim.