Thou Shalt Not Prompt?

The future is too big and too bright to keep looping D-Day on social media. We’re done. AI has been called the greatest art heist in history, the app of the antichrist, and hosts of things that not even actual courts take seriously. That's slop on a stick. As an artist and creator with 30+ years in music, painting, graphic design, novels, and more, plus the founder of a writing community of amazing creators called LegendFiction, Dominic de Souza challenges the new Inquisition of Guilt-Mongering around AI. Generative AI isn't theft. Machines don’t create. Artists are not owed reparations. Every chapter in this book lays out why, from Pope Leo's latest encyclical to interviews with smart people. We’re not celebrating mediocrity merely because it's human. We’re also not defending dumb decisions and obvious misdeeds. Nobody owes a mob an explanation, and they wouldn't accept it anyway, “Like you, I hate slop. But It’s worse when it comes from people. This little manifesto tackles the toughest arguments that artists level against AI... because after 5 years, they’re still not very good. Especially in Christian spaces, the anti-AI ideology has melded into a new purity culture. And it’s not stopping: it’s destroying deals, jobs, and lives, because no one is pushing back.” The bar is moving from ‘can you create’ to ‘can you make something only you could make.’ You don't need permission. You never did.