I use copious amounts of AI from chat bots to image generation

I know it’s bad for the environment, I know it’s stealing from hardworking artists and writers but I always go back to it. It’s one of the only things that bring me joy. I can literally make anything “happen” and that sense of control over minute details and having “someone” who listens is just unbeatable. No real person can draw what I want to see in the time I want to see it. No real person is going to indulge in my role-playing or answer my stupid questions. It’s game changing. It does feel empty after a while though. AI isn’t very creative once you see the patterns everything feels the same. It rarely surprises you. That’s when i know for a fact AI is not a long term tool. It needs endless input. Instead of getting content from a person it lets us have it regurgitated in a personalized way to be more palatable for the consumer. It’s a delimma really. No artist can read your mind and give you the art/story you want play by play but they can make the pieces. The user can custom piece it together themselves. That product will always beat the og in terms of user satisfaction but that products is impossible without the creators. Its a middleman but man am i such a hedonistic consumer.