Situation sucks, but it's getting harder to wonder about the proliferation of AI in just about everything. It's in popular tools that are possibly part of any artist's workflow and our tech overlords stuff it in our faces. It's getting harder to avoid it. It's not part of anything I do, but I'm an outlier. And I don't know about you, but I get constant offers for various software products that include AI enhancement for text, photos, images, and more. I see promises that AI will simply do the work for me. It's seductive and I'm not surprised people go for it.

Of course, there is the unstated: AI data centers produce noises that cause negative health effects in the communities where they exist. They consume huge quantities of electricity, water, and computer hardware. They damage the environment, and they're making it increasingly difficult for ordinary people to afford computer hardware to do 3D work, play computer games, or even do school work. And, of course, the whole thing is based on the wholesale theft of all creative output within reach of the AI companies including basically everything that ever was on the internet. So, we all already pay a very heavy AI tax.It does make a certain amount of sense to get something for all that the AI companies steal from us and inflict on us. I won't do it, but lots of other people do, and some of them are rewarded quite handsomely for doing it. That's the reality.

The only thing you could possibly do is vote with your wallet and not buy anything that is or seems to be AI-made, as well as shunning everything to do with AI. That's what I do. The trouble is, as you can see for yourself, it doesn't matter!  The economy now is all AI. There is an aggregate of trillions of dollars in the AI industry. Our tiny wallets don't even make the equivalent of a pimple on the surface of all that. Until the bubble bursts (if the bubble bursts), your fabulously wealthy tech overlords will just keep ramming AI nonsense down our throats until we all choke.

When enough people decide AI is the way, little vistas of creativity like Rendo will vanish. The people rendering images will just put text prompts into an AI interface and marvel at the wonders of what they get back - A lot of people apparently do that already.  And the people making content will mostly be out of luck. Because, and here's another interesting point: a lot of people in the community here and on other sites like this are old and getting older. As time marches on, old folks fall by the wayside and young folks, being young, won't know or care about anything but AI - Unless, after all is said and done, the whole AI thing collapses.