Raw LLM Responses

In all honesty, when I draw, if I am EVER using AI art as reference, I'm only doing so because I thought at first it looked cool, but saw the issues of how crappy it was. At most, I might reference AI art only to possibly give me an idea of something to draw or paint by myself, using the AI art purely to help me come up with a cool idea, and then only using the thought of what the AI art was while creating my own thing, while also looking online to find REAL pictures to use as reference if I need a reference to help me draw. When I first was introduced to AI art back in its earliest days, I purely only used it to see what it could produce, but never did I claim the AI created stuff was my own creation. Now adays, with how hurtful AI art has gotten, I know that while the AI might be cool to see what could be something cool which I could then create by myself using actual references to produce something way better than what the AI made, it is definitely WAY better to create the art yourself than claiming AI is the best solution. If I ever to use another artist's work for inspiration or reference, I make sure to cite that artist/mention their name and/or put their socials so others could go and check out that artist for themselves. And tbh, AI is a tool, but so many people are using wrong, and that honestly makes me feel ashamed that a human could use AI to make next to soulless creations, which only hints to the creation having any hints of a soul in it is from the art that was stolen by the AI. I can make this whole argument also about how people use AI to write whole novels. Of course, said novels written by AI are also very crappy and honestly get worse and worse the farther you go. If I use AI to help me write something like a small novel or fanfic, I'd only use the AI to maybe give me a thought on a situation or give me some kind or prompt, but I wouldn't follow what the AI gave me word for word. With the topic of using AI to write, you could just use that to help you think of something you could add or that you could write if you can't think of something. But at the same time, there are already so many accounts I've found on Tumblr that literally are just writing prompts in case you are blanking on something to write. Turning back to AI art, there is one thing I had found that AI could be used for to really help me draw something. And that use, which honestly it has been about over a year since I last used it for something like this, is just going to an AI chatbot and asking for an art prompt if I truly can't think of ANYTHING to draw. With that, if I use AI to give me a prompt for art, the prompt would HOPEFULLY be random and give me an idea of something I could possibly create. But now let me tell you (Along with the AI supporters reading this) something about this use I haven't used in a while... THAT IS ESSENTIALLY JUST DOING COMMISSIONS (from people with specific requests) BUT YOU AREN'T BEING PAID! Now, I don't do many commissions besides IRL friends who are willing to pay me, but still, I prefer doing my own work and coming up with the ideas for art on my own and referencing real things and being inspired by ACTUAL artists, and of course making sure those artist get credit. That was my rant, typed by my own hands and proof read by myself, with no AI touching anything in this comment. Hope you all have a good day, especially to @LavenderTown because your art has always inspired me to take my own attempt at some of the things you draw (like human versions of poisons, mushrooms, monsters, etc) and I've always found your unique art style to be amazing (even if I can never recreate your art style myself (I can never for some reason use your art style of how you do those eyes and eyelashes, but always likes that)) (also sorry if I pinged you with this and made you read my whole rant)