Imagine there's an appliance in your house that does some of the things you can do, but poorly and slowly. And it's costly! Imagine some dollar amount you wouldn't like to pay and there - that's how much it costs each month. [Basically, imagine whatever amount most scares you.]
You'd get rid of that device, probably. Unless it was of sentimental value to you, it's a wasteful, unnecessary thing and you'd throw it out.
I truly value the connections dA has allowed me to make with artists I've admired since I was a teenager and artists I'd never heard of but had the privilege of conversing with here. But this is the end of my time on dA - I can only assume the Internet will greet it with the same, quiet, respectful silence my active time on dA usually received.
There's a wasteful, unnecessary thing on the horizon and it's called humanity, and AI will throw it out when the time is right.
I've viewed AI, wrongly, as a tool, one that helps turn artists into art directors. This was because I didn't understand it. AI is an enormous copy and paste-run fraud led by the various Silicon Valley sociopaths aiming to reduce every job conceivable to as few underpaid employees as possible.
I thought using AI was simply a case where we look for some ideas using bots, we get some ideas back, refine the ones we like, discard the ones we don't - I didn't realize that in the process we were training AI to do the job of an art director. I'm not the first to say this, and I'm indebted to those who opened my eyes. Likewise, I wasn't aware of what are - and should be seen as - rampant artistic copyright violations by these AI processes.
Think of everything that goes into art - skill, study, feedback, repetition, aesthetic understanding, trial, error, and talent (whatever the hell that is). The endgame of the current AI processes is to replicate the preceding and then duplicate it a hundred trillion times over and create everything anyone possibly could or would.
Now, imagine every profession less sophisticated than that of a professional artist - which is just about all of them. If art can be replicated by bots, then any job less complicated, less nuanced, or less technical will be even more easily replaced.
When everything we - people - can do is subverted by AI, we become the costly appliance in the house that does everything slower and worse than what AI can do.
And we will be thrown out because of it.