@leyonhjelm
Same.
Louis Rossman (I think that's his name?) on YouTube worded it very well, at least in the context of being a computer technician... He outright tells his customers how to do things themselves so they can avoid paying him to do it.
Artists are of the opinion that every time someone hits "Go" on stable diffusion, that they lost a sale. This simply isn't the case. I'd bet that 99% of the time, had the tech not existed, the person using would have just said "Eh, I don't wanna go through the hassle and that's a lot of money for a shitpost", meaning that, tech or no tech, the artist made the same amount of no money.
These are the same people who were absolutely giddy that programmers would supposedly by put out of work by Github Copilot. They told everyone how they're so much better than programmers because they're creative, and a machine can never do what they do.
A machine suddenly does it "good enough" for certain purposes, and now they're upset. It's poetry.
I got kicked out of a League of Legends Discord guild, for saying "For everyone from marketing departments needing stock images and clip art, to individuals needing smut, if it fits the requirements, and it's the cheapest and fastest option, it's going to get used."
That's almost verbatim what I said, and this Discord mod got so bent out of shape that he permab& me and strutted around telling everyone how sick of my shit he was.