If we're just viewing AI art as a tool, it's a really, really bad one. I would consider myself an artist; I'm not amazing at it or anything, my anatomy is questionable and I can't draw clothes or hair worth shit, nor do I make any money off of it, but I'm an artist nonetheless. And in my experience, trying to get it to actually get something that looks like what I have in my head is so goddamn hard that I'd have been better off drawing it myself, even if the clothes look like rubber tubes.
On a personal level, I just plain don't like the idea AI-generated content. I value art being made by human beings, rather than being spewed out of a machine. If you showed me a great piece of art and told me that it was AI generated, I would like it less as soon as I became aware of that fact. You can say that I'm being irrational, and I absolutely am, but this is how I feel, and you're not going to reason me out of it.
>>3146I learned to draw by starting from general principles and then incorporating elements of specific artists I liked on top of those. An AI isn't going to start by breaking down a character into simple 3D forms like spheres and cubes and then adding details atop those, it's going to photobash together a bunch of existing pictures.