submicron

Recently it has come to my attention that users in my groups are composing their work using ai means. To make matters less savory DA is backing ai as well. I find it strangely odd that DA has chosen this path. Quite frankly not sure who's benefiting from this? I have no issues whether you use the technology or not outside my groups. It becomes a problem if is within my groups. We don't accept ai under any circumstances. Period. If in the future voting on it becomes imperative, we will take the proper measures to do so. My opinion on ai is non-apologetic one. I feel its robbing of the true essence of what art is and always has been. Morally, is a far worse dilemma. If you are doing this for the sake of page views and popularity then you are in the wrong business! When art starts looking eerily the same is time to stop and think for a moment. This is the case with ai. Every single ai piece I have looked at has a machine appeal to it. It's disconcerting to say the least. The people