How are there people who still genuinely defend AI like this?

I didn’t include all the comments from the post but i think those basically get the idea

r/defendingaiart in general is a sub full of some of the most delusional people i’ve ever seen, but i think it’s crazy that they can look an artist who lost their job to ai IN THEIR EYES and just say it was a “skill issue”.

I don’t know whether this was really the right place to post this but i just wanted somewhere to briefly vent