By this logic you could also ban Photoshop, tablets and any other software or hardware tool that has improved accessibility and workflow over the years.

AI is a tool, flat out banning it won’t and can’t work. It’s too fucking useful.

People said that anyone who used Photoshop wasn’t a real artist, people said computer graphics weren’t real art.

At some point you DO have to draw an arbitrary line. Because that’s all. Art is arbitrary all of it since the dawn of mankind making art. It’s all arbitrary. If you only make hard lines that completely block tools, all you’re doing is harming artists.

The entire point of drawing arbitrary lines is to allow for artists to keep making art. Why dissuading people from abusing others.

So do you want no one to be able to do anything or do you want things to actually have artistic expression which is arbitrary.

Ai has plenty of great usage in game development, generating LOD textures, random dirt or rock textures, creating automated systems of pallet replacements. There’s plenty of tools that can cut down huge amounts of repetitive workload, so small teams can actually spend their limited resources on actual art that has direct major impact on their vision without wasting huge chunks of time and money on low end. Small parts that realistically wouldn’t have had any artists hired or any actual real impact on the experience of those who consume the work, but would have huge negative impacts on those making it.

Just because companies abuse a tool does not make a tool bad. Every artistic tool throughout all of human history has been abused by someone to hurt others. Photography, movies, Photoshop, paints. You name it. It’s been used and abused to hurt artists and every time artists adapt bring the new tool on to create new forms of expression. Even if that expression is too rebel against the tool.

You cannot ban a tool no matter what. You only cause more problems becoming worse than those who abuse the tools.