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20 points praveeninpublic | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.369s | source

While browsing YouTube, an AI-generated video appeared and I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”

Yet I’m using AI-created illustrations for my graphic novel, fully aware of copyright and legal debates.

Both Copilots and art generators are trained on vast datasets—so why do we cheer one and vilify the other?

We lean on ChatGPT to rewrite blog posts and celebrate Copilot for “boosting productivity,” but AI art still raises eyebrows.

Is this a matter of domain familiarity, perceived craftsmanship, or simple cultural gatekeeping?

1. tbrownaw ◴[] No.43807221[source]
Art generators can be used by people who would otherwise have to pay artists, so they're in competition with the people dissing them.

Code assistants are used by programmers wanting to be more productive. Things that claim to replace programmers entirely get dissed. (But it's more "that won't work" rather than "that's not allowed", because, well, it doesn't work. Yet at least.)

AI-generated content is probably cheap spam, even though it in theory could be made by someone knowledgeable using the AI as a tool.

Things generated by an AI are lower quality than things made by someone competent... but depending on what you're doing, that might not matter.