#ai art isn’t art

[splatoonpolls]

once again I’m ranting on this account don’t think I posted this on this account

I wish more artists would realize. Non artists are very clueless when it comes to AI. Like if you’re not in a creative field like writing, painting, or music. You’re not going to understand what is the problem with generative AI. So next time you see a friend of yours try an AI TikTok filter, don’t be under the impression that they know about how generative AI scrapes from artists (often without their permission) and still decides to use it because they’re such “bad boys”. They just think “oh wow how cool!” And go on with their day.

I’m going to give one example. I was in my schools production of west side story, and these girls decided to use generative AI for some of the boxes. I could easily tell that they probably thought “hey this is pretty cool and easy! Let’s try it out” they didn’t think “finally! I do not need to use one of those pesky artists that forces me to pay for their stuff. Because once again. Same with these girls in my class generating stuff using the Microsoft AI during ESL. For them, it is just a silly thing they might do once or twice.

This brings me to how two of the biggest secondary schools in my county are both having Christmas markets, and they both decided to use AI. Sometimes, it is just on accident. You might look at a photo and go “how christmasy” and use it, without realizing it is AI (at a first glance of course). Though I am a bit pissed off because the PR committee is right there with our photoshop! (But the vice president of the school union did say most of the time they didn’t want us to burn out, so they do have good intent, but it is just, not as thought of as they might think)

so next time, you see a non artist use AI. Please remember most of the time they aren’t doing it out of ill intent. If you want to explain to them why generative AI is bad for artists, just be polite and explain it for them.

[timeboundterra]

@staff I do not like AI scraping art and posts. No one on this hellsite likes it.

[druvy-rants]

So can we all agree Sora AI is a safety hazard? Since AI generated images first became more realistic and saw all the NSFW stuff I went “oh god this is going to be bad for women” like we can’t trace the origins of the images. Were they taken from porn actors who consented to their work being made or teens who were trafficked?

And now with Sora. Peoples lives are at danger. The amount of people who will become victims of harassment online and irl will grow by a ton.

Sora won’t only affect people who work in the sex industry. Imagine the inhuman perverts who will use it on minors, women who dress modestly for religious reasons, on their own damn relatives, and on famous people they just can’t stand

Oh wait. Two of these have already happened.

I don’t know how to end this in anything but that if you actively produce ai generated porn. You’re a piece of shit who doesn’t even deserve a tombstone.

[druvjelly]

Ai could’ve never made miku binder Thomas Jefferson because AI can’t be chronically online

[cathead-productions]

More resources that aren’t AI, brought to you by your local library

[halflingcaravan]

Watching the Board Game Designers space over game art and AI, and then seeing SAG-AFTRA… it’s really just pushing me more and more to not be involved in board game design.

The no-traction hustle in RPGs has been grinding enough, but just watching a group of people who create forms of art and experience openly tossing other creators of art and experiences under the bus because now it’s cheap…

These are the fuckers who I know want to be in charge of major board game companies, and would be the same bastards who would sit at the top of development in somewhere like Hasbro or Asmodee and say “Fuck man, why is our art budget so high? We could totally drop $45k out of the development of this game, sell it for the same price and just not hire artists to do the game art…”

[chaos-smoothie]

I have something to add to this. every single time I look up reference pictures, I get shitty ai generated bullshit. I've actually reached the point where I discovered that pasting this into google gives you a solid filter for 99% of the ai art. typing in -"word" will filter out all results with that word. I might end up making another one to filter out costumes and all that shit for better historical results when looking at outfits for my characters from various time periods.

if you don't put a space before it, it won't work so keep that in mind. if there are any I might have missed that are still coming up in your results, put them in tags. and I'll add them to the original post. if you see this and you end up using it, please reblog so more people, especially artists and charecter designers, are able to find it. Google is becoming rapidly unstable due to the influx of ai art, and it makes me incredibly sad, first of all, that my work as an artist is becoming rabidly obsolete. This is not worth it. Ai art is not worth it.

Here is the anti ai filter, note that this only works for image searches and only serves as a filter for art. due to the amount of ai writing concealed in media, I have no real way to create a filter for that. I hope this helps the art homies who are sick of this shit, and the people who just want to look at human art for a change:

-”starryAI” -”Krea” -”freepik” -”lexica” -”Midjourney” -”hayo” -”storybird.ai” -"Craiyon" -"ai art generator" -"prompt hunt" -"Opendream's ai" -"nightcafe creator" -"arthub.ai" -"open art" -"playground ai" -"PixAi.art" -"Creative fabrica" -”ai” -”Tensor.art” -”Images.Ai”

yknow AI art has ruined an entire genre of painting to me, i saw one of those smooth anime-realism pieces and immidiately thought ''ugh, AI art'' until i noticed it was posted by an established deviantart user 6 years ago. like ive never been a huge fan of that genre but it looks like a pretty difficult style to master and i feel bad for the artists who specialized in anime-realism only to have their entire market jacked by people typing keywords into midjourney.

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[charl3st0n]

science team designs from between lessons

[spicynectarines]

Somewhere in Wild Space, Anakin is at an art museum

[gvnuzi]

Just two sentient AI chattin 

[dallaser74]

I think the Acotar fandom is one of the oddest ones I’ve seen. AI being used in place of art being so normalized and the bullying of real artists off the app?? Also rare pairs/crackships piss y’all off THAT much??? Like I’m scrolling through the tags and if you ship any ship that isn’t canon/going in that direction you’re COOKED!! It could be a ship with 5 people in it and here come some canon dickrider mad as hell LMFAOOOO

[arliedraws]

I've seen your posts about AI. I also know it's a pretty polarizing topic and what the majority opinion is, especially in regards to art and writing. And being an artist myself, I totally agree that it sucks, like you have to pay attention and all, but.... I hardly dare to say this because I know how emotional the discourse around AI is, especially on a platform like tumblr, which sometimes seems so strong that I don't participate in a discussion about this topic at all because I feel like people here would hound me for it, but I still use different AI software, but not in the way that I use it to create something that I can publish and pretend that I spent hours creating it myself. I think it can be really helpful.

If I need information about something quickly, it's more efficient than spending a lot of time searching different websites for a particular piece of information.

I also like to think of it as a group member when I'm working on projects. That doesn't mean that I get the ideas from it and then just copy them. In the same way that group work is beneficial, you pass the ball to each other with the AI and exchange ideas that you can then develop further. Or it can help you if you're looking for another word to describe something better, like a dictionary. And I still know how to use real dictionaries or do proper research, because I know that AI can make mistakes and you shouldn't believe everything. Just like it is with information from the internet in general. Anyway, now I come to the actual “confession”, which is that I also use it, not to let the AI create the art, but as a tool to help myself creating it. I usually use reference images for drawings to help me get the scene itself or the anatomy correct etc. Andy capture it properly. But sometimes I have a very specific scene in mind and can't find a suitable reference, and it can take me hours to find something that fits. So I like to use AI to create that reference for me, because unfortunately I don't have people modeling for me and personally it helps me extremely to have examples to work from.

Idk where exactly I'm going with this. But since the general opinion on generative ai seems very clear here, I wanted to finally get this off my chest because I always kept my moth shut being afraid of how others might react, even though I think that my methods are still quite legitimate, as I still do the real work myself. Anyway, I'm looking forward to your opinion.

Ahhhh okay, well, thanks for the vulnerability here.

You know my opinion on AI. I’m not going to tell you you’re a terrible person or anything for using it, but I’m also not going to justify your personal decisions. Instead, I invite you to change your perspective.

My opinion is this—and it’s more of a question: why are you creating the art? I’m going to hit a few of your main points and just pose questions because I think this gets to be more philosophical than a cut-and-dry “if you use AI, you are a bad guy.” Because I don’t think that—I also don’t think you should use it.

The reason I don’t blame people for being attracted to using AI is because as human beings, we’re designed to find the most efficient way to do things. Thinking and using creativity is a huge caloric expenditure. Right? Naturally, we’re attracted to ways that things can be done FOR us and reduce our cognitive load. Your brain is working as it was designed! But this is also a really cool way to take away your voice and mold you into someone who cannot think for themself.

(This is also what you’re doing by “confessing” to me. You’re unloading your cognitive/emotional burden so you can keep on doing the thing you know is probably a bit shady.)

First of all, I don’t know you, so I don’t know what your art training is. However, you need to train your brain to start coming up with stuff on your own. I am really sorry, but I don’t buy the “I don’t have enough references.” When there are free resources like Unsplash.com and even just looking at buildings around you, the furniture in your house, etc, you DO have the references. But you need to learn how to use them. This is a tool.

Second thing, if the reference isn’t exactly what you need, then you need to start learning volume and shapes. You need to study anatomy. Eventually, you will be able to look at a reference and understand how perspective works and be able to transform a reference in your head to what you need. OR - start combining references. If I’m doing a full scene, I probably have about 5-6 reference photos I’m working from. This is a tool.

Third, start taking photos of yourself for reference images. If you can’t find what you need, do that. I periodically have to go into my camera roll to delete the god-awful reference poses for myself. This is a tool.

Fourth, start a collection of things that “strike you.” Start a reference blog. Have a folder filled with images that intrigue you. Personally, I take an insane number of photos when I’m traveling. For example, I went to a mansion for a tour and took photos of all the early 20th century objects and rooms so I would have these in my arsenal. This is a tool.

My fundamental question is this—why are you having an algorithm create what’s in your head for you? Why not learn how to do these things instead? Your imagination is so cool. The process of creating is making happy mistakes. What do you think Bob Ross would say to you? When you use AI, you’re just copying. The imaginative part has been done for you. You’re just a tool of the robot.

We do so much to avoid frustration, but frustration is the part of creating. When we can see the skills we need to learn, that’s how we know we’re improving. It means you’re trying, and when you press through that discomfort, that’s when you grow. Stop seeing this as a block to your end goal but as an opportunity to continue your infinite journey as an artist. Celebrate that there are so many beautiful things to learn.

Additionally, please don’t see AI as a group project. A group project indicates that all parties involved consent to participate, and I know most artists do not want their art to be used in this way. Imagine if you learned to do all the things I’ve described above and taken time/years/frustration/love to develop these skills, and someone years later then took your work and said “It’s okay - we ALL contributed to this.” It’s just not true.

The artists you see online don’t simply sit down and draw a bunch of cool stuff without practice. I watch Youtube videos of professionals. I draw a gazillion sketches of just MOUTHS or hands so I can create my own references in my mind. Why would you deprive yourself of this?

Look, I think it comes down to this: if you’re looking for efficiency and ‘getting it done’ quickly, then why are you doing it? Are you enjoying the process? If you aren’t, why are you even doing it?

If you need a robot to imagine something for you, then you don’t actually want to do it.

[fairmerthefarmer]

Dusa and Meg my beloveds

[druvjelly]

Ai can’t be ai because of, Jesus?

[0vergrowngraveyard]

still thinking about how, when i told my dad that i want to work on a small video game or comic because art/writing is my passion in life and i love creating things that mean something to someone, he told me that i shouldn’t because “everything is ai nowadays”

idk. this was someone who was always so supportive of my journey as an artist and storyteller and hearing this just fucking stung