[spazx]

Yes this. This is what I've been trying to explain to my friends.

When Tron came out in 1982, it was disliked because back then using CGI effects was considered "cheating". Then awhile later Pixar did movies entirely with CGI and they were hits. Now almost every big studio movie uses CGI. Shunned to embraced in like, 13 years.

I think over time the general consensus's views about AI models will soften. Although it might take longer in some communities. (Username checks out lol, furry here also. I think the furs may take longer to embrace it.)

(Also, people will still continue to use older tools like Photoshop to accomplish similar things.)

[fennecbutt]

Yes many furs I know are very anti AI art etc, including overreacting to how "bad" it looks, though if I hadn't told em it was AI generated I don't think they'd have the same reaction.

Ironic, since so many furs are in tech, but we all have artist friends I suppose. People just forget that portrait painters were put out of business by photographers, and traditional artists were put out of business by digital artists. And so the cycle and the luddism repeats.