There is so much drama and contro-versy in this comment stream: this takes away from the vital issue of WHAT IS ART - a question which has been completely obscured in recent decades, and which is being further muddied with the combattive dialogue here.
This in turn takes energy-time-attention from the actual Art, and therefore weakens our human relationship with Art and with our Divine Co-Creative vitality which should be at the centre of all that we do.
Original content in regards to what is being shared on Hive is unique and created by the hands, mind, heart, spirit and/ or vital force of a living woman or a living man. It comes from our whole being, or part of a whole being which represents the whole.
AI-generated content or 'art' is that is simply is not Art. Then again, a lot of what is presented in the world, and on Hive, is also not Art per se - but it is a beautiful expression of human being.
Art by its natural meaning has to be original: anything else is mimicry and is not original. This is not easy to police: many folk in this day and age are living in a purely mental construct, and therefor may be writing the same words but projecting a VERY different meaning (or a lesser depth of meaning) from them, even if they are the same words.
Similarly, pixels and algorithms can be used to 'create' imagery, but this will have nothing like the power of depth and meaning, and no essence of expression, like a hand, spoken word or brushstroke could have.
Many folks are using computer programming effects or AI algorithms to not only act like brushstrokes, but to mimic the external layer of a complexly constructed visual language, which in Real Life would have not just multiple levels of expression, development and construction under that outer layer (which would have taken weeks months or years of sincere toil to create), but which also come from a Living Woman or a Living Man who has dedicated multiple years OR A FUCKING LIFETIME THANK YOU to their craft.
Real Art is not dabbling with paint, nor is it a hobby or passtime, nor is it something that can be copied or mimicked: it is a dedicated life practise, evolved through hard graft, sacrifice and the walking of a path of non-compromise, not settling for comfort and conformity. Few folks comprehend this: 'art' as it is presented to us through 'cult'-ure is nothing of the sort, so any argument using the mainstream concept of 'art' as the premise - will only create more mud.
The use of complex, 'exciting' and fantastic imagery to distract and enter'taint' the human mind is a drug of our age: it fills our superficial senses and brings us out of the deeper sentience that should be embodied in our Living mindbodyspiritcosmos: Art is nothing less than that which anchors us in the mindbodyspiritcosmos. In a world in which most of us are floating like satellites outside of ourselves, Art is the umbilical that can bring us back down home: soul inside body, aligned and in natural hierachy, instead of being controlled by preprogramming and brainwashing to be separate from our true identity and the Art Of Life.
ART is ART - no mater how is made. It is just personal opinion, period.
You use PC to do write here, so for one writer, who use pen, you are a bad actor here. Do you should be banned and blacklisted?
The same is with the art. One that use PC or AI as a tool to draw something with ideas, very fast, is a bad actor for those who use pen.
So, where we go? AI is here and will stay here, we should embrace it, like other things we have to.
And, it is personal opinion, how someone thinking about this, but, I'm not fine to go and ban and blacklist people, just because of own opinion, and because, you have the power. That's my point here, and that's what HW team is doing right now.