Just to give you a comparison.
I've made a bunch of AI memes with ChatGPT on here and have no issue with that (cos the planet/environment was f**ked before you were even born, Greta, and no one listened to Carl Sagan in the 70s, so spare me) but mostly I just stick to the basic templates cos part of the challenge is repurposing an old template to whatever message you want. And the whole business of it kind of makes the meme joke.
Because honestly half the time it's not worth the time cos AI still can't follow orders or count fingers, etc.
Give it a few more years, I guess.
But when it gets it right, then yeah, AI can do stuff I couldn't dream about with Photoshop, if I could afford it cos I've never used that either.
And fwiw I don't remember artists ever moaning as much about when Photoshop appeared as they do with AI. Nor ppl moaning about how much water/energy Google, YT and FB guzzle btw.
(Or how their fast-fashion clothes are made by basically child slave labor, or their food, or smartphones? Or basically everything else they take for granted every day that only exist by exploiting tf out of global economic inequalities.
Funny that. Gotta love the Gen Alpha kids, bless em. See you at the protest this Saturday?)
So, sorry, but I call hypocritical bullshit, I'm afraid.
Eat my AI YouTube shorts.
When cameras were invented, artists also said it would spell the end of art. It didn't; it created a whole new genre of art.
When electricity was invented, people argued it would kill everyone and you can literally find old-school "memes" saying electricity is the devil and stuff.
How times have changed...
AI is a whole nother level, sure. But it's not the first time this has happened.
And anyway it's not going away any time soon unless OpenAI goes bust lol. So tldr can't beat em, join em.