“The whole structure of the artist booth is about connecting with the person that made the art.”

I can vouch for myself and others - that we are there to just buy cool shit and not ‘connect’ with the artist.

“Why would you want to see a booth showing artworks that weren't even created by the person in front of you but by an AI?”

Um, because they are cool?

Yeah. The problem is that AI images are widely considered uncool, like hyper uncool. That's it.

You could save yourself some time and jingle keys in front of your face.

"I can vouch for myself and others - that we are there to just buy cool shit and not ‘connect’ with the artist."

Who is "we"? Art, to me, is about pouring your heart and soul into something in a way that AI can trivially emulate, which makes it dangerous when placed next to art that actually has a lived experience attached to it.

I can slap a prompt into AI and get some graphic design slop that to the untrained eye looks "close enough" to the vendor next to them that actually made the art themselves. This is dangerous and spits in the face of people who pour themselves into their work.

At best, put the AI art generators into their own little special corner. But don't put one-shotted AI art next to actual crafted human created art right next to one another and say that they're equal. The brush strokes are imaginary. That's a grift.