Stop Hating AI Artists, They Did Nothing

Description

A three-panel Seinfeld meme. The large top still shows Cosmo Kramer in an olive-green short-sleeve shirt leaning over balding George Costanza in a kitchen, with Jerry's red-shirted torso and a person in a red jacket behind them; white overlay text reads: "Stop hating AI artists. They literally did nothing." The bottom row is two apartment shots: George in a dark plaid shirt and khaki pants stands by a teal couch looking skeptical at Kramer, then points him toward the door while Kramer raises a hand in protest. The joke is a double meaning—prompt-only "AI artists" contributed no craft because the model generated the image, so they "did nothing"—and George still ejects Kramer anyway. It maps onto the generative-AI authorship fight: scraped training data, Midjourney/DALL-E/Stable Diffusion pipelines, and whether a prompt is labor or just an API call.