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This meme feels super pretentious, nobody is using AI to generate images because they're scared of drawing.
It's the interest to effort threshold, for most people the interest in making art is less than the effort it takes so they just don't.
AI image generation provides a facsimile of that by generating images with basically no effort.
I feel like this is pretentious because it fundamentally misunderstands its target audience just to lecture about skill.
Edit: it's also incredibly cringe to self insert as superman
That is a lie
You can tell yourself that but you'd only be stroking your ego at the expense of actually understanding why people do what they do.
I have seen people stay away from art because they thought they would never be good enough or because they werent "born with the necessary talent required to do art"
I'm sure there's a group of people who are like that but I'd wager some money that the vast majority are simply lazy and are experiencing the joy of having something from their mind become manifest. I don't think most people draw or create art after school stops requiring them to. There are multiple generations of creation starved people.
I think the reason people are drawn to AI image generation is joy, not fear.
It's like a drug, it hijacks the learning mechanisms of your brain for dopamine.
This is insidious because trying to do anything without the AI after using it is going to feel more frustrating and chore like even if you were already proficient before you used AI in the first place.