@Aza Thank you for bringing up this perspective! Perhaps because I am not part of the artist community and haven't considered this issue myself, this is a very fresh and somewhat profound viewpoint for me.
I recall a while ago when my hairstylist excitedly played a song for me and proudly said, "This is a song I wrote using AI." Thinking back now, he didn't actually "write" it; rather, he communicated his ideas to the AI, and the composition and lyrics were completed with its help. However, when he told me he "wrote" it at the time, I didn't feel anything was amiss, likely because I equated "writing" with "creating."
After hearing what you said, I feel that using the word "paint" or "draw" for images created with AI is indeed imprecise, and it might feel unfair to artists who have spent a lot of time and effort practicing their craft.
Personally, I feel it might be more appropriate to use broader terms like "creation" or "creator" to describe the process of making content via AI and the owners of that content. Based on my own experience with AI drawing over the past few months, transforming the content or imagery one wants to express into an actual work through AI is actually very difficult (which is why I've posted so few images in my gallery...). Since realizing this, I have gained immense respect for creators who can consistently generate complete works that also carry personal expression.
At the same time, thank you for raising this point; I will continue to follow this topic! After all, the industry I am in is actually the most vulnerable to being replaced by AI—or rather, a large part of the original profession has already been replaced—so I am very curious about how practitioners in another industry in a similar situation view AI.
