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The same thing happened when digital photography became cheap enough to be affordable to hobbyists.

Film photographers looked down on people using digital tools because they were just software tools that took all of the skill away because you could just fix your problems in Photoshop. It was the same kind of elitist gatekeeping that we're seeing here. Some people are using new tools to make art and established artists are gatekeeping the term 'art' by attacking the tools.

'AI' doesn't make art. That's the core strawman in these discussions. People make art and it is art, regardless of what tools they use.