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I worry for my friends on the left who fall down the AI hatred hole and never learn how to use these magical tools 

What happens when they no longer have competitive advantage in work/education/creative environments? You can’t die on this side of the hill forever.

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i'm glad i only hated ai for about six months

I feel this. I have artist friends who recently shared some perspective on it.

According to them, the initial basis of the dislike doesn't really come from the capability itself, but from the kind of people it brought into their space. AI art was a step change in the minimum skill threshold of people who could feasibly sell art for a living. What this attracts is a lot of grifter-types, so much so that the Venn diagram overlap between AI art users and grifters is near-total. These grifter-types end up taking valuable spots at exhibitions and conventions that previously went to traditional artists. It feels like a big slap in the face to them.

Another aspect of it is the content that these tools were trained on, which was for the most part done non-consensually on artwork published on the internet prior to AI art being a thing. That's another slap in the face.

But there's another dimension to the hatred which stems from the collective...