Flawed (or dishonest) logic behind #AI criticism:

* All human artists “train on [stolen] images”, too. There's simply no other way.
* Something (or someone) surpassing your ability to do something does not “deskill” you. Your own skills aren't affected.
* Human workers being “disempowered” and “replaced” by new technology is a centuries-old constant of History, and a very good one overall — we have been dealing with that forever, and when sufficient time passes, everyone's happy about the change. This critic should realise that she didn't rely on human scribes, human postmen, human typesetters, etc to make her point heard: she sent e-mail to a newspaper that is composed and produced using #technology and employing a fraction of the workers that were once necessary — and we're receiving her ideas on our computers in the form of a digital image; so many human workers out of the loop now! And that's great.

I'm not necessarily happy about the disorganised way AI is happening, either. But find better arguments, and make specific proposals, people.