I just don't get it. I'd rather rather write something riddled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors or draw something shitty than sacrifice the process of making art. Writing and art can carry someone through the darkest and scariest parts of your life, why would you want to outsource the most cathartic and vulnerable human experience to a machine?

Yes, engagement and validation is nice. It's feel good, but it's fleeting. At least if I wrote it myself, I can say that my soul made an impact on someone. That's not something anyone who uses AI can say and that's not something that can ever go away. If someone clicks a heart button on something that took no labor, no love, no heart to create, then where is the meaning in that?

Even the shittiest two lines written by a person have more value than pages of perfect prose written by a machine. Art is invaluable and irreplaceable, but image generations and word generations, they're a dime a dozen, something anyone can do. No one else could write the story a writer has in their heart, the beauty an artist has in their eye.