“Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything” nowadays, a.k.a. vibe-living, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square to prevent contagion, and then A.I. should resurrect you virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity…

Criticizing A.I. as a criminal plagiarizing machine that steals the work of artists without permission or compensation used to strike me as a bit hyperbolic…

The point is, I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.

Read the book, not the summary.
Write the piece, not the prompt.

Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.

Source [web-archive]

Apparently, there was a different article title:

2026-04-15-09-06-16 - “Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.”
2026-04-16-06-23-16 - “Don’t Use A.I. to Do This”

Thank you very much! The authors, of both the article, and the illustration are… miracles…
Of course, art is of human for human… there should be no artificial/machinery/emptiness involved…

Related: https://lemmy.world/post/46352738 (Chris (Simpsons artist) has illustrated a New York Times essay on artists using AI…)