Cause I hardly doubt any of them use it as a tool or as just a fun thing to use for only and I say ONLY fun.

But the pot is currently being stirred and the fears and concerns are ever growing... for very obvious reasons.

Cause at some point you'll be seeing a AI generated video short popping up on Youtube for just content sake...

And eventually finding whether you intentionally look for it or not those kind of videos being monetized due to content farms are run by people who just want a source of income for both good and bad reasons.

Now which leads me back to the main topic of this discussion... is why some people are trying to defend generative AI as their own works?

Cause that is the real enigma of this moral debacle that greatly effects everything we consume on media as a whole.

Because I know the feeling of being praised cause everyone want to feel good like no sh*t.
But why do these people specifically try to defend something like if they have put the blood, sweat, and tears/the work onto something... that they didn't actually have a hand on creating.

Yeah you can edit the picture on photoshop but... that picture is still made by something that isn't you.
You can say you own it... but that still doesn't mean you made it.

It's like buying a copy of a video game you like and yes do you do own that copy... but you didn't make or were involved the development of that game.

Also that microwave food thing joke is gonna come up again and it's basically the reason why we tend to ridicule them... for the illusion of having understanding.

Granted it could be a mass group of trolls collaborating together just to have fun for sh*ts and giggles due to having nothing good in their lives... but evidence suggests otherwise and most of these people are more mentally ill or them living in their own reality bubble.

...And since we're living in crazy world there is a lot of it on the why.
Everyone has insecurities but it's how you react when you got them exposed or being made fun of because of it.

...And boy that guy trying to copyright his AI generated artwork that won a contest without him disclosing it was generated with AI and saying he photoshopped the sh*t out of it to say he did do the work... got his ass clowned on because the dude is using an amalgamation of stolen artworks from somewhere on the internet without permission due to the people who were making the generative AI just grabbed everything on the internet and the makers themselves don't even know where all of it originally came from.

You can see how messy this can be... and since that sh*t is starting to invade in the gaming space by either using it as literal or by subtle... you can tell they're trying to cut costs and save work time from doing work from a field they are severely lack experience in.

If anything my guesses would be the sense of Purpose, the Ego, and lots of Greed.