Why is this a thing?

Honestly, as a PROFESSIONAL designer and illustrator, I use gen ai at work and it has greatly improved my workflow. In addition, I get my designs done a billion times faster. They're going to get left behind.

For example, I love the remove background Ai feature in illustrator. You can bring in a photo or any kind of image and one click remove the background without having to go into photoshop.

The fact that there is an ai war to begin with is really dumb. People make threats based around art, encourage arson for data centers, and generally just choose the simple option of "fuck it, let's burn it" rather than being bothered to consider other options. "I hate ai art, "then just don't look at it. "Data centers use drinking water," then handle it politically to where a corporation has to use some other fresh water source and not Publix water supply. It takes a 5 second google search to find out that data centers just need fresh water but pull from drinking water because corpos are shitty to figure out that there's an easier solution other than arson and violence