If you are reading this, then there is a good chance you made an ignorant or offensive statement about AI art and AI art creators. I want to clear up some of the many misconceptions you have because a lot of the negativity towards AI art is clearly based on plain old ignorance. We humans tend to hate and dislike what we don't understand or don't know. So let me try to clarify some misconceptions. You didn't do any work! Many seem to think AI art just requires writing whatever comes to mind and a perfectly formed image ready to upload pops up immediately. Many also seem to think that just because we mark our images as AI art, it means we didn't do any actual photo editing or work on the images. Most of us with a sizable following and who stand out in any way do extensive photo editing or post-processing of images. We aren't only writing words. Furthermore, the whole process of creating an image typically requires numerous photo edits. A lot of my images are made by pushing modified