Twitter mobs are conformism storms. - Paul Graham

It would be funny if as AI technology progressed, the legal situation tightened so that they were only trainable on images that were out of copyright, with the result that AI image generators produced very high quality traditional illustrations.

no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you're trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you're even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what's the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.