AI image generating has already soured the way I consume art because I automatically have to second-guess and investigate what I'm looking at; but seeing all this fake Ghibli slop every day is so fucking depressing. This was never supposed to fucking happen to Miyazaki.
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Esp with artists that look a lot like what the AI spits out (highly detailed and rendered)
One reason I tend to post my time lapse nowadays, just to show the process and thus myself
But it's a tiny bandaid (besides people can use AI for the references and just copy it)