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Hatred is not a good thing. It makes people feel justified doing bad things. And it makes discussion impossible.

People can chose and avoid whatever they like. No hate needed for that. We are talking art here. There is many things called art by some, that is not art in the view of others.

If there would be a gallery of oil paintings and someone would submit a photographed print of something that looks like an oil painting, that gallery would very likely reject it. Or if they do allow such things, some fans of oil paintings would probably dislike it for various reasons.

But what is the purpose of the gallery, what do the guests want to see? Do they want to see portraits? Do they want to see oil on canvas? Do they want to see the paintings of a child, that only the parents would praise? Do they want to see painting of that one artist that is famous, but now only paints "abstract"? What about charcoal sketches or wood carvings?

Well, depends on the gallery and the guests.

If you want to exhibit at a place that only allows oil on canvas, you will have a hard time submitting something that does not fit.

But if you visit a place that allows all kinds of works, the guests do have to deal with the fact that there actually are all kinds of works. Sure, they might rumble on about how certain things are actually not works, or how those things are bad and should be forbidden and so on. But curiously enough, those works actually are not forbidden. Not by law and not by the place they visit.

This is still art we are talking about and guests will chose what they want to see or not. No hate needed and no convincing by righteous people.

In my opinion, AI things are tolerated at best. In situations where a thing would not exist at all. Like in a no budget single developer situation. The novelty of AI has worn off. People do not like it in their recreational media as a substitute for the real thing. 

And to put things in context, I'm talking ... of my own stuff

That's what AI haters do not get. Their usual arguments are short sighted. It's just hate. And one can even use an AI system trained with your own things. On your own computer even. The rig one would play a 3D game for hours.

And AI slop is not slop because it is AI, it's slop because it's slop. But because it is very easy to create a lot of slop with AI, you will see a lot more AI slop than regular slop. Appealing AI things are rare though. A professional developer would be wise to classify and treat any AI assets as prototype and switch to commissioned art sooner or later. It's still art we are talking, and people do not like to see or read AI, when they expect craft and art.