AI Art: Try to Be Human As Long As Possible

I know how messy this topic can be in typical online discourse which is why I decided to share my thoughts here.

Creatives using AI in art never bothered me in the past. Now it does. I used to align with an assumption that using DALL-E or Bing or Dreams[dot]AI or midi generators was equivalent to playing with a custom Macro script in Photoshop ... until someone posted these questions in a musical Discord post recently. These questions made me re-think everything when it comes to AI art:

• If someone uses AI to create something, how do they claim copyright or how do they source where the art came from? (one can answer these questions with good potential loopholes until the next two questions come up)
• If someone samples / remixes / steals images, sound, videos, or text written by AI, is it possible to successfully claim that a second AI wrote them to escape copyright?
• If someone uses AI to create something which contains images, sound, videos, or text written that is identical to something AI has already written, who will represent AI in court when legal cases get messy?

I've come to the conclusion that unfortunately AI is here to stay while slowly chipping away the ability to stand out as a creative. Everyone says just straight up don't use it, but I have a different challenge. AI has its uses, but it should never be something that replaces Bill Watterson, Ludwig Von Beethovan, or Stephen King. AI can HELP with creating outlines for stories, templates for music tracks or characters in Blender, but it should NEVER be front and centre as the final product.

But truth be told, nothing anyone creates is 100% original with or without AI. It's always been that way. Because of this, we will come to a point where AI will be used by every artist and people won't be able to tell if an artist sampled, stole parts of a real image, or took text from other publications and made it their own. We will come to a point where no one will be able to differentiate between AI and what was originally created by an actual artist that "MADE" something that people collectively enjoy. So for now, let's be as creative as possible while also abiding by an old rule for those who don't like AI being used in the creative process: always ask, before judging a book by its cover. You'll be surprised to learn that there is still a ton of art that is 100% human or that very little AI is being used by most artists in this moment (although who knows how long that will last).