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I can understand somewhat using it for storyboarding or trying to quickly bash together concepts, although I have issues with photo bashing as well cause I think it encourages a kind of slapdash lazy design language that all comes out looking kinda the same, and not making sense.
Personally though, when I look for reference I just look for existing art, and while I might go over it once or twice to get a feel for a pose or a certain shape, when I go to starting the actual art I'll set the references off to one side of the screen rather than just draw over them.
AIslop encourages laziness and reinforces bad habits as well, it's already well documented that people who use it for other work like coding or literature rapidly lose their own inmate ability to grasp and manipulate their subject matter, and the same goes for art. Even if a person starts off with a relatively high natural grasp of art, prolonged use of AIslop will degrade their natural skill by generally allowing them to be more lazy.
Digital artists run into a bit of this problem too, I do warmups when I have time where I have to impose rules on myself because digital art allows you some outs like perfect erasing, ctrlZ, and pulling up references you can overlay directly onto your work. To avoid forming bad habits I have to restrict myself from doing those during practice.
AIslop is also dubious ethically because it directly rips chunks of images from other people's work, it's like tracing your art but even lazier and spread out across a million different instances of copying rather than a handful.
If you actually like art or care about it in anything other than the most vacuous consoomer level way, you'd avoid AIslop.
