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Ask HN: Why do we celebrate AI-Copilots but reject AI–Generated art?

20 points praveeninpublic | 1 comments | 26 Apr 25 19:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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. perching_aix ◴[26 Apr 25 21:15 UTC] No.43807280[source]▶
I don't understand this post. Both the chatbots and the image generators are controversial. The voice and music generators are controversial. The whole field is controversial.

It's reasonable to hard skip on AI videos because almost all are currently slop, to the extent that I don't see why you needed to explicitly suggest to your wife to skip, rather than her noticing it on her own and doing so automatically.