The negative opinions about AI today are the exact same ones I was reading 4 years ago. A lot of these people still have the same level of understanding they had 4 years ago, because most of them never really used it. Many think AI means you show up, click one button, and the work is done. But that only shows they don’t understand the process. AI can automate parts of the execution, mostly the time-consuming and low-value parts, but the real value still comes from the artists upstream: the sketch, the strength of the idea, the taste, and the execution of the choices. The funny part is that many people are only anti-AI when they know AI was involved. They could see an image, love it, call it brilliant, and then completely change their mind the moment they find out AI was part of the process. Just look at the recent troll around the Claude Monet painting. And I’m seeing this happen more and more: anti-AI people sharing AI-made work without knowing it, praising it as “real work with soul.” That proves the problem was never really what they were looking at. It was the label. At some point, we need to stop reducing a creative work to the tool involved. Otherwise, we should also judge 3D render engines, VFX, Photoshop/Procreate layers, brushes, cameras, lenses, and every tool that helps artists reach a result they couldn’t create the same way by hand. Tools don’t create value by themselves. People do.