I didn’t claim any authority. I just argued that I am informed and not projecting; I talk to actual working artists.

(My own work is amateur and probably shit; this is not about my creative ego)

You guys do like to read things that are not there so you can argue against them.

I don’t know any artist who has done any self-reflection about their work who thinks generative AI can do much for them at all.

At best it is tools like deep learning in upscaling and noise reduction, selection masking, separations etc. (I don’t mind AI selection tools; quite liked old style AI upscaling but I have moved away from it; I now think work should be produced with its reproduction limits in mind)

Nobody who has put in the creative ideation and self-reflection work and still wants to improve is going to tell you great things about generative AI. Because they know it is empty calories.