What's Really at Stake with AI Art

<Ok, deep breath> I think, like a lot of artists, I’ve had an adversarial stance on AI¹ and the technologies that spit out pretty pictures at the behest of a prompt². I’ve run through a bunch of emotions and read a bit and listened to a bit, and it’s well… complicated?

At worst, it fuels fear for my job and forms an overwhelming death cloud of worry that f…