And also they want to be known as good artists and feel important rather than for the sake of good art. For somebody who just wanted more good art, then they would welcome more tools for the sake of creativity and fast prototyping.
It's the same reason they always demand recognition like having people credit them and being upset about having their art they posted for free online being "stolen" and posted elsewhere, because they aren't getting attention from it
Artists think they are the shapers of culture, see also intelligentsia.
AI represents the breaking of that monopoly.
They thought they were untouchable until some years ago, they don't care if robots replace blue collar workers because they see them as uneducated.
A decade ago the 'creative class' believed the working class would soon be made obsolete through automation, and all the right-wing factory workers and coal miners would have to either grovel for entry level office jobs where they'd be at the mercy of browbeating HR commissars, or become destitute and starve. Turns out replacing everyone with robots isn't going to happen for a while because that shit is expensive and difficult . Meanwhile AI is advancing so much that it will seemingly make many writing, illustrating, animating, and coding jobs obsolete soon. A lot sooner than manual labor jobs.
They hate that we can now make things like Spirited Oy Vey without their gatekeeping
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