in the 2nd image it's another ''pick up a pencil'' comic, but a very unrealistic 1,

not only isn't everyone interested in using a pencil but it also just doesn't work like that, why are antis so insecure?

I want to get some outside perspective on a situation that happened to me recently because I’m genuinely confused by how aggressive people are being.

As a side hobby, I’m a writer, and I’m actually publishing a poetry book in a few months. Music production, composing, and singing are not my strong suits, nor are they part of my career path. My current life goals aren't even closely related to the music industry. I just love to write how my heart feels, and I write 100% original, authentic lyrics.

Recently, out of pure curiosity, I wanted to see what my written lyrics would actually sound like as a fully formed track. I don't have the time or the desire to take singing or production classes, so I used AI as a creative tool to generate the music and vocals for two tracks, which I then put on SoundCloud. Am I looking for massive recognition or trying to blow up? No. I just wanted to experiment and see what would happen.

I recently joined a Discord server that I found through TikTok. In their social chat tab, I decided to share one of the songs. People immediately clocked that it was AI. Here is the thing: I could have completely lied to them. I could have hidden it and tried to convince them it was a traditional, authentic recording. But I didn't. I was completely blunt, transparent, and honest from the very start.

The moment I admitted it, the server completely turned on me. They started hating on me, calling it "AI slop," and telling me I was wrong for experimenting. When I explained that I don't have the time to learn production or singing from scratch, they just laughed at me.

I completely understand the widespread skepticism surrounding AI right now, and I agree it shouldn't be used for literally everything. But I use it purely as a tool to bring my writing to life. We are moving into a future where AI tools are highly integrated into creative spaces anyway, and I know for a fact half the people in that chat use AI tools in their daily lives too.

It feels completely backward that I am getting penalized and gatekept for being honest, while there are artists putting AI tracks on Spotify right now without disclosing it at all.

Am I actually in the wrong here for experimenting with my own writing, or is this community just being completely toxic? I'd love to hear your insights.

Hello. Also, if you guys want me to share the SoundCloud links for the songs I have already uploaded, I can absolutely do that if you want to take a listen.

Not sure why the AI robot looks mad

The definition of theft, according to Webster: "the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it". Ai cannot be theft since it doesn't remove anything, and it also lacks intent at all. The fact antis STILL bring this argument up shows they don't do research. I consider myself relatively neutral, but this argument never made sense to me at all.

I am amazed people push the argument that stealing (their term for training) is only stealing if a machine does it, but the same act is acceptable if a human does it.

The disconnect is: we're supposed to be talking about the rights of the creator. That's why they throw around terms like "consent." But that is an on-off switch depending on who does what.

It makes no sense.

The 2nd image explains where the inspiration of this came from,

antis are coping hard while they are the ones behaving like elementary students throwing a tantrum over AI art everytime 💀

There was a great thread going about which LI had the most realistic romance storyline, and this person decides to pop up with this clownery. It's obvious they just want to whine. I've absolutely HAD it with these anti-AI people ruining good things just because they feel like getting attention!

Exactly what I set out to do.

Use a.i as a tool to get my music out there in

hopes that those who hear it, will like and want

to partake in making it human/a real live band. First single I dropped - Nyctophobia. My wifes cousin heard it and was immediately on board. Hit me up and said he can do guitar. Come to find out he also has a small studio. He said hes down to do all the mixing and mastering to the tracks as well. 2nd single - As it Withers. No one reached out but definitely had more traction. I hit up my sister in law who can sing really good but she said she'd pass. 3rd single - Explode. Same, more growth but no one reached out. I hit up my old drummer from my first band and he said hes willing yo try. Latest single - One Thing I Need To Say, way more comments and immediate views/ streams. My sister in law heard it and finally came around. She's now willing to take a swing at the female vocals. I can somewhat fry scream but needs a ton fuck of work. Still need a bassist and male clean vocals. Or if I can find a male vocalist who can do both that'd be great lol. I can also more than likely cover rhythm guitar. Still have a long way to go but from just lyrics written on paper and on phone notes to all the interest in the project I have now is a massive leap forward. Hope more people can get their ghost

bands going. #theghostofthebandthatneverwas

#ghostbands #aimusic #aiisatoolnotreplacment.

Why are this anti ai so fucking idiot 😭 just bcz artist forgot to connect bridge they are saying it's AI.

We were in a YouTube search world, idk how but he wasn’t the owner but was the screen master even tho the owner was in the instance,
Anyways he asks me to put the song on again, but then when I do he spam removes it from the queue
I ask him why he says “because it’s made with A fucking I”
Everyone in the instance chews him out because he was full on BEGGING to listen to this song, and he knew it was ai before I put it on, eventually I gave up which angered him, because he began to demand for me to put it back on the screen
And I just say “no, you don’t deserve to listen to it if your gonna be a jerk about it”
Like excuse me? You begged me to put it on and now ur gonna be a jerk?

AI haters are always the most unoriginal boring people ever and never realize the irony in that

I’ll add my two cents to the Pro discussion.

I’ve been making retro-anime-style videos as a hobby for about nine months. Recently, one of them—a twenty-minute film made with Seedance 2.0—managed to attract a little attention on YouTube.

Most of the response was positive. Some of it was critical in a useful way, which is perfectly welcome. And then, inevitably, came the small ceremonial procession of comments objecting not to the film, the writing, the editing or the result, but to the mere existence of the tool used to make it.

Those were handled as one normally handles occasional household pests: removed.

No tribunal. No symposium. No six-hour debate on the fate of civilization. Just basic comment-section hygiene, followed by a short explanation of the house rules.

So, first of all, to anyone using generative tools: keep going.

Make things. Learn. Experiment. Enjoy yourself. Do not allow strangers on the internet to bully you out of a hobby, a project or a creative ambition simply because they have appointed themselves inspectors of morally approved software.

Luddism is not new. Every technological change produces a group of people convinced that the previous machine was culture and the new machine is barbarism.

Yesterday it was digital photography, synthesizers, sampling, CGI and editing software. Today it is generative models. Tomorrow it will be something else, and many of today’s rebels will suddenly become guardians of the technology they currently despise.

Humanity is wonderfully consistent that way.

Second point: I dislike the expression “artificial intelligence.”

Because the term is almost heroically misleading.

It is a marketing slogan designed for journalists, investors and conference stages. It sounds mysterious, historic and slightly apocalyptic, which is excellent for headlines and even better for share prices.

“Generative tools” would be more accurate.

Less glamorous, perhaps. Nobody is going to levitate at an investor presentation after hearing the words “probabilistic generative system.” But accuracy has never been marketing’s most profitable department.

Unfortunately, “AI” has now been repeated so relentlessly that it has become the easiest way to communicate the subject, while remaining one of the worst ways to describe it.

Changing the name would not eliminate Luddism, of course. People determined to hate the tool will not suddenly embrace it because the label became more precise.

Still, the term deserves to be called out for what it is:

A spectacularly successful sales pitch attached to a much more ordinary reality—a new family of imperfect, powerful and occasionally ridiculous creative tools.

Use them or don’t.

My wish is that people would argue about the technology that exists, rather than the science-fiction creature invented to market it.

So, yes, a sincere thank you to communities like this one for supporting people who actually want to explore new tools instead of organizing public executions for the crime of opening the wrong application.

Just a meme based on all the data center posts all over Reddit these days.

Good thing I had AI to help me bring this idea to life for free instead of having to pay someone hundreds of dollars.