I have long since found myself stuck between a rock and a hard place with this topic. I have very, very mixed feelings about it all, but I will tell you the blunt truth... whilst I can absolutely see and appreciate the value of convenience which AI brings to the table, among other things... the emotion toward it which is unquestionably the dominant one... is not good.

It pisses me off to be frank.

Why? Well, for the last four + years most of my day time hours was spent creating digitally hand drawn art. My art career in the digital and NFT space has been incredibly successful so I am eternally grateful for that - but the the second AI hit the scene... it was as if all traditional artists got kicked to the curb.

The only stuff that would sell was AI generated CRAP! And I say CRAP because most of it is!

Every day I would browse my social media feeds and see traditional as well as traditional digital artists genuinely desperate. Some absolutely incredible talents and works and nobody had touched their art by way of sale (in some cases) for over a year.

It was a heart breaking thing to watch unfolding and it became even more painful to live through myself.

It made me question myself as an artist, it made me feel completely hopeless - but more than anything else, it made me angry.

It is like this world and it's people just get shallower and shallower with each passing moment.

It is not the concept of AI that disturbs me emotionally, but what it is doing to the human side of things. What a sad day it will be if traditional art, made by the hand and heart of a living, breathing soul is no longer wanted - let alone appreciated.

Sorry, I have gone off on a tangent, lol... but I suppose I related this to the creative writing aspect of things too. True writers express with heart and soul. AI will forever lack that component and I guess what saddens me is that the world does not seem to care.