Raw LLM Responses

You very nearly reached self awareness right at the end acknowledging how Steve functionally lied himself into a career. But missed that last little sliver where you could go, "Oh, this is very similar as a means of novice artists to step up their game." In the last episode Steve even acknowledged how digital art was itself controversial when he started because older artists thought of it as low skill and low effort. The Anti-AI crowd broadly speaking is elitist and classist because the people with the loudest voices are the already established artists. It is clear that at the technical level neither of you have a full grasp of the underlying mechanisms and math involved, and no shade intended. It's complicated PhD galaxy brain math stuff. I certainly don't understand it fully and I know a lot on the subject. But I never see a critique from a non-tech person or non-power user that is really coherent at explaining the nuance and differences. The moral and environmental arguments have some validity, certainly. But in 20 years time the kids growing up with this stuff will be running laps around all us old folks. If you want to give real advice to new artists, don't tell them to slam their face in and "pay their dues" like this is 1950s Hollywood. It's to learn how the tools work, learn what they like about them and don't like about them, and use them as they see fit. Because there is the level of involvement that is a single prompt bam I'm done. But there is a LOT of nuance, and particularly in writing post generation editing, when it comes to an actual quality product. Which I assure you, these enthusiasts want to be making. They are just using the best tools at hand. They do in fact develop their own styles, skillsets, and strategies as they work. Just in a different way than you did. I understand much of it is well intentioned and with the hope of defense for and advocation of artists. But that is what the road to hell is paved with. The problem the establishment has isn't with the artists and it isn't even with the companies making the models. The issue is that creatives are having to grapple with the fact that their skills are not as unique as they thought they were, are no longer in as high demand, and so capitalism is kicking them in the nards. You want to support new artist and artist rights? Advocate for UBI, government art grants, and community meetups of enthusiasts. Reach out to the new generation and maybe actually learn from them, rather than expect them to follow a path you walked just because that's the way you did it. Because two career artists inaccurately grappling with a very nuanced topic on an extremely highly technical tool is not the way you serve the future of art, storytelling, or the generations to come. Pun some intended.