#piper thibodeau

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Piper Thibodeau

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The thing is, it’s actually AI people and not artists who really care more about copyright. Artists aren’t nearly as obsessed with ownership as AI users are.

Most people I’ve noticed getting popular with AI art use AI to generate pretty generic images based on familiar concepts/characters in the style of popular artists. This is because AI does better with things it has a lot of images in its dataset to draw from. There are people who do weirder stuff, but this stuff almost never gets popular except as a joke or meme, because it never produces anything that looks like a shiny art station portfolio piece.

But that leads to the question of: why generate this image with Midjourney when it’s such a familiar generic concept that you could find a very similar image with a quick google search? It wouldn’t be exactly what you’re looking for, but Midjourney is also not going to give you exactly what you’re looking for either. If you just want nice imagery and don’t care who owns the art, why not just search the internet for art that definitely already exists?

If you just want “cyberpunk city trending on artstation”, why not go to artstation and look at different people’s concept art for cyberpunk cities? If you want “pretty anime cat girl with pink hair,” why not just search for that? If you want “owl in the style of Piper Thibodeau,” why not look through their owl art? If you want “art of Walter white in a cartoony style,” why not just look at all the millions of pieces of fanart that do exactly that?

There have even been some kerfuffles where the AI takes too influence much from one image that shows up a lot, and accidentally creates an almost-exact copy of a piece of art that already exists. The person who inserted the prompt in the machine, of course, doesn’t notice or care. Even though the “art” they “created” had already existed, and they essentially just did a roundabout internet search to find it.

So the question is like… “why are so many people machine-generating things that already exist?”

And the answer is because people don’t care about finding good imagery, really— they want imagery that is “theirs” and that they “own” in some nebulous way. You can easily find a generic cyberpunk city on artstation, but it’s not your generic cyberpunk city. You can easily find generic paintings of cute anime cat girls anywhere, but they’re not “yours.” You can find cute owls or cartoony breaking bad fanart anywhere but they’re not “yours.” The appeal of AI is not that it can create something new, because it’s bad at creating new things outside its dataset. The appeal is that it can create things that feel like they are “yours.”

The point of AI is not to generate imagery. It’s to file the serial numbers off imagery that already exists.

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Art by Piper Thibodeau

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Artist Piper Thibodeau

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Cats Pajamas by Piper Thibodeau

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Daily Paint 2363. Ice-cream Cone of Shame by Piper Thibodeau

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[allyalbon]

Sometimes it is fun to just sculpt something frivolous, with no intent other than for the joy of it. I started this in my lunch break back when I was at the studio and have pulled it out to finish up.  I love Piper Thibodeau's work and I love bluetongues, so it makes perfect sense.  I can't wait to sculpt his little tongue!

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Pokemon Starter Puns - Created by Piper Thibodeau

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Cryptid-Creations Paintings

All art credit goes to Piper Thibodeau (Piper Draws on patreon and Cryptid-Creations on DA)

Base Game Compatible

100 Simoleons

12 Swatches: --7 Assorted cute animal puns --5 Pokemon Puns

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(Source: Pinterest via deviantart)

Piper draws Cryptid creations by Piper Thibodeau

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Artist: Piper Thibodeau Title: Daily Paint 2142. Sweet and Sour Pork Nice =) ...

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Piper Thibodeau

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August’s 3dtotal gallery winner was Michael Santin with the adorable Snake - Danger Noodles, based on a concept by Cryptid Creations! Check out the rest of last month’s fantastic runners-up here.

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Artist -> Piper Thibodeau

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Sonic the Hedgehog by Piper Thibodeau