> But copying and then garbling it with algorithms, forever and ever and ever, is something else entirely. Different enough that artists should opt-in.

I'm more sympathetic when when it comes to arguments against corporate controlled AI using the work of artists to extract value and reproduce their work (in whole or part) using algorithms, but I just can't see how granting artists special rights to monetary compensation for AI training or for output that is being done in "their" style won't eventually (or even immediately) result in harmful impacts to human artists including those human artists using AI tools (like photoshop). The result will certainly have a massive chilling effect on artistic output and our freedom of expression.

Copyright in general has become a perversion of its original purpose which was to promote the creation and dissemination of works for the benefit of the public, and it needs to be scaled back substantially from what we have today. Any attempt to use copyright to further restrict what artists can do beyond what our current extremely abusive laws burden them with should be heavily scrutinized and avoided wherever possible because history shows us that even with the best intentions in mind the result of those laws will be further abuse and exploitation.

> it just allowing to mingle and drown out everything else by being infinitely cheap to produce predictably will destroy my choice.

There's no doubt that AI will flood the market of currently available things, but there's zero evidence that it would make it impossible for people to access older works. As far I as can tell, AI output will only become increasingly homogenized and uninteresting. You seem to feel that already AI does not deliver the same quality as human artists. AI generated art might come to dominate advertising, or furry art on deviantart or pixiv, but it's not likely to kick renaissance painters out of museums.

> People who can't write (or "don't have the time" for the thought process while still oddly feeling entitled to the appearance of it) see that, want it for themselves, because it's better than what they can make.

This is probably the weakest of all the arguments against AI art. Some artists are threatened by the idea of AI making it possible for more people to create even inferior looking artistic works.

Rather than being excited by the idea that more people will be able to express themselves and their ideas in ways they otherwise wouldn't be able to artists seem angry that they'll no longer have exclusive control over what art gets created and that the people they look down on for not having the ability that draw or paint will suddenly no longer need to come to them to see something close to their vision materialized. As if the person with parkinson's disease, or arthritis who finds it hard to even hold a pencil or draw a straight line is undeserving of creating art. As if it's unfair that bad artists might be enabled to create something above their station. I'm not suggesting that you personally feel that way, but comments like "People who can't write (or "don't have the time" for the thought process while still oddly feeling entitled to the appearance of it)..." strongly echo that position.

We'd all be better off if technology allows more people to express themselves through art. It doesn't devalue the people who are more talented. It doesn't devalue art made when making art was more difficult. It does increase the pool of art, perspectives, and ideas being exchanged, but that is always a good thing.