>>5569not any of the people in this discussion but running someone else's art thru an AI filter is particularly insulting because it usually has this implication that it's "improving" the art when in reality it generally makes it both technically worse and robs it of the personal charm of the artist. It ends up homogenizing the output because of the way the systems work based on statistical models averaging all the art it scraped.
Most AI filters also do weird stuff that it may be hard to recognize or appreciate if you don't know about the fundamentals of art like how construction or shading works. This sort of thing is typically done by people with minimal knowledge and frankly very underdeveloped tastes, who may not understand why the output looks worse to most people. It's also frequently done as a way of trying to assert superiority over people who make the art manually.
People don't usually take offense this way when someone actually re-draws their art because they see it as inspiring other artists to take up the craft. It's simultaneously prideful and humbling to see yourself inspiring other people to do what you do. It's not the same thing when someone just puts the image through a filter.