General

What matters are purpose, context, and responsibility. People set the goals, choose the training data, and decide how outputs are used. So you can't simply be "for" or "against" AI; the real question is where its use delivers clear benefit and where risks, misuse, or discrimination outweigh the gains.

Those who use AI deliberately and skillfully amplify their abilities: it becomes a productivity, analysis, and creativity multiplier. Those who use it only to confirm existing biases or to shortcut critical thinking stagnate or worsen problems. What matters is education, digital literacy, transparent rules, and responsible governance — not the technology itself.

We are talking about generative AI. And in that case, it's pretty straightforward - especially for the creative types.

Creativity is varied — for some generative AI is unnecessary; for others, a useful tool. There is no obligation either way — I have no problem if someone chooses not to use generative AI.

AI is a huge turn off for me personally! It really sucks that a lot of story covers are AI now.

I'll try adding typos and grammatical mistakes, then I won't seem so 'soulless'. After all, AI is highly adaptive and trainable.

Ewww I know who I'm blocking

Please name specifically what bothers you — then we can talk about it calmly. Otherwise I respect your decision.

AI is a creative tool. Develop skill when you use it and you can get some entertaining results. However it's a bit like the morphs of old, can be used to deceive or to imagine.

Your average creative will always hate generative AI. Theft and environmental impact aside, it's seen as being lazy. The average creative put in the work to develop their skill. Went through the ugly stage to get good or even great.

I've been writing since I was 5. I'm very good at what I do - look at the stories on my profile. I learned my craft, and I'm always improving.

You can't get that with generative AI. It's a crutch. When you come across a problem, you do not have the incentive to find a creative solution that helps you grow as a writer. You do not have the need to choreograph a scene or research a topic to make a more interesting story. Instead, you'll type a prompt into Chat-GPT or whatever else you are using and it will spit out a safe, computed answer.

Human-in-the-loop (HITL) for visual work means humans retain control at every step — from concept to final polish:

Concept & references: You define style, composition, color palette and provide reference images; the AI produces variations, not finished decisions.
Prompting & iteration: You supply targeted prompts, evaluate results and direct follow-up modifications for desired details.
Selection & composition: You pick usable elements from multiple generations, combine parts and manually adjust proportions/poses.
Post-processing & retouching: You correct anatomical errors, perspective, textures and colors in an image editor; add final lighting.
The same principle applies to texts — prompting, selection, editing and stylistic finalization by humans.