i think about making a zine about what i think is beautiful about ai art, but i don't want to make something like that defensively, and i worry that if i did it wouldn't be bc of a desire to express myself artistically so much as that desire to convince other people to please just stop the constant trashing on anyone who uses ai/makes ai art if i just explain things clearly enough. bc i know that won't change people's minds, and it would only be disappointing, but the urge is soo strong bc it really does genuinely weigh on me every time i see people i respect and like talk about how all real artists all hate ai, how it's the Artists vs the Fakes, how everything made with ai is ugly and worthless. both from the perspective of i get frustrated when people say things that are just plainly not true, but also because tbh it genuinely really hurts to see how many people i respect have no respect for me/assume that i don't exist (because 'Real Artists don't use ai'). there's so much beautiful creative potential in ai art, and i just want to be able to express that potential without constantly being subjected to the same couple nonsense talking points about how ai art is inherently worthless