Part of the reason why some people defend AI is because they have lost touch with and respect for the process.

Agreed - if they ever even had that love and respect to begin with.

To me, these people are the ones who have always sneered at genuine creative endeavour, mocked emotional honesty and derided artistic individualism. If they couldn't immediately understand something then it had no value for them.

They see the output as the sole purpose of art - not the creation, planning, preparation, missteps, repurposing, honing and rehoming, self-doubt, inspiration, effort, completion, etc. Just the finished piece.

To them, it makes no difference how that piece was arrived at, what it means to have created it, what motivated or influenced it. It's such a dead way to think.

This is with everything. The world is impatient little 5 year olds now.

I saw this years ago with music. Everyone wants a shortcut. Edit the life out of your music because you can't learn to play it well. Tune your voice instead of getting a sweet take. Process the living hell out of drums so they sound completely fake or just trigger everything instead of learning how to mic.

This has just accelerated peoples laziness even more. It may be a useful tool for some people but really it promotes idiocy and laziness.

I always fall back to the examples of when ai beat humans at chess and recently at go. That feat hasn't made those games obsolete. People still practice and learn them for it's own sake. Both and many other games are more popular now than they have ever been in history.

The same can be said for athleticism, story writing or many other things. Its just not about ticking a box and "winning".

There's people who see art as "content" and others who see it as a creative persuit like a journey.

The best way I can explain it is playing a game like league of ledgends or deadlock. There's no being the best at it, and there are many different roles and niches you can excellent at. You don't play the game to be the absolute best because that's physically impossible. You play because there's a path where you constantly challenge yourself and are constantly on a state of learning and improving.

When you hit that moment sometimes it can feel like a manic episode and you are pouring your soul into a project, and that's the golden space that people chase after. Nothing else in the world matters and a million ideas are racing through your head.

The final product is meaningless without all that because the whole thing you where chasing is the high/satisfaction of just being into a hobby/skill. If I got into deadlock or league of ledgends and had a aimbot and all these other hacks I should be having the most fun I ever had because I'm absolutely dominating every game. Yet if I actually did that the game becomes meaningless and I get bored and have no reason to play. All those wins and hurdles I had to face on my own no longer are there I'm just getting pure dopamine spikes for nothing, and my brain quickly builds up a tolerance to that and it becomes lame. Much like everything in life if you just skip to the end and start hitting the dopamine/get high button, you end up ruining your relationship with that thing. It either becomes a addiction problem or you get bored of it.

There's people who just chemically don't understand what art is because they never really made anything or experienced that. They just view art as a product they can try to scam someone with, or a way to get easy YouTube/tiktok views without dedicating a single thought to it.