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yaypal t1_iwkyx4i wrote

Reply to A Redditor created a directory of 185+ AI tools. by Jenkins87

Unpopular reminder that AI art generators steal artwork from artists who don't consent to their work being used and the practice is just as morally bankrupt as turning artwork into NFTs without consent.

> "All art is derivative."

An artist can't rip another off without still putting in their personal skill and experience, someone who's never touched a tablet pen before isn't going to be able to replicate an artist's style. That's not the case with AI because there's zero human touch, it's just eating existing art wholesale without any human-made change and shitting out an amalgamation.

> "What about people who trace artwork?"

People get called out for it all the time, it's only appropriate for children and young teens to do this. It's also technically not legal theft, it's tacky and rude but replication by hand without using any part of the existing pixels isn't breaking any laws.

> "What about photo manip and collages?"

Probably the only argument with even a remote point, however professional artists who collage to improve their pieces and concept art use free-use and paid-for library textures. I can't argue either way for this though as personally I'm not a big fan of people doing this for artwork outside of using texture libraries and free-use photos.

> "An image uses so many different sources that it's not tracing or stealing."

That's like saying that assets that come from money laundering are clean because it's hard to tell where they came from. The assets were still fucking stolen from somewhere, just because you can't tell where from doesn't mean they weren't. Also there are cases of recognizable signatures of artists being found on AI generated work, so go ahead and try and make the argument that it's just an unrecognizable soup.

> "It's just for fun."

AI art is being sold at anime cons and on twitter, people are regularly monetizing the work now. It's notable that few people who do this outright say it's AI generated because they know people won't buy it if that's the case and they'll be shunned by the art community.

Btw every artist I've seen would support an AI art generator if it was only made up of artists who consented, as well as public domain photos and artwork. It's an incredibly useful tool, the problem is theft of the work that the programs are built on.

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ReyxDD t1_iwkvjzg wrote

Reply to comment by andrewmyles in A Redditor created a directory of 185+ AI tools. by Jenkins87

You're the problem. Why would people make shit free anymore when all they're met with is ungrateful whining. The dude has been constantly replying and applying changes to the website as we speak. It's obviously still a work in progress, there's ways to give constructive critism without being a massive fucking entitled asshole about it holy shit.

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