Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on copyrighted material without the original artists’ permission. And that’s without getting into AI’s negative drag on the environment.
Mate, that’s not art, that’s coding. Congratulations on learning a new coding skill and how inputs can affect outputs. Frankly, it’s barely coding, it’s adding degrees of specification so a program can do all the work. I get that it took you a while to learn what all of it means and how it works, sort of, but something being hard to do doesn’t make it art.
And don’t cheapen photography by comparing it to generating an AI image. There’s physical labor involved in photography on top of composition and patience.