Hot take: Artists who hate AI most are those who failed before it existed
flowersslop · x · 2026-11-11
The author argues that the artists most passionate about hating AI are those who lacked financial success before AI arrived — it's the perfect scapegoat for their preexisting failures.
Successful artists who adopted AI long after establishing themselves don't hate it: it removes tedious work and frees them to focus on creating. They don't fear theft since art can only be copied, not stolen, and AI learns from work rather than reproducing it. Notably, these established artists are also the most accepting of AI art, seeing enough creative intent in prompting, curating, and refining to call it artistic creation.
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