#ai art is stolen art

[haydenchristensen-official]

realest thing i have seen in a while

[floral-poisons]

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.

[vampirepunks]

*sigh* Reminding all of you once again...

AI art is stolen art.

If you're pro-AI art, you're harming human artists. Full stop.

At this point, I don't care if it's "real art" or not because that's not even what the real issue is, it's that it's already hard enough to succeed as an artist without having our work stolen, thrown into a digital blender, and spat back out in our faces, so we can be replaced because the value of our creativity and skill has been reduced to "content" and dollar signs. Do we mean nothing to you? Is your convenience worth telling us we don't matter?

These programs and everyone who uses them no matter how many times we've told you this can get fucked. I'm done being nice about it.

Sincerely, your salty neighborhood artist.

[statelesspinup]

I did not just find an Etsy store using AI fucking photos to sell amigurumi patterns

What bullshit is this??!??

Please ignore my tabs I need those but THERE IS NO WAY this isn't AI. Here. Let's take the worst one I found and dissect it.

Like,,, okay. Just try following the line of yarn in front of the poke ball. It splits off and attaches in ways that yarn doesn't. There are completely detached circles of yarn!! What even is that metal thing?? I've been knitting and crocheting for a decade and I don't know what that is. Why is the yarn wrapped around a jar?!

Is there anything I can do about this? I just feel bad for whoever is gonna buy that sonic the hedgehog pattern (which was NEARLY ME) and gets totally ripped off. Bc if you have to use AI to sell your pattern, something tells me that the real pictures of the pattern's results aren't going to look right.

[ohnoitstbskyen]

"AI art" isn't made by AI, it's built with theft, and it has serious creative limits

AI art is the subject en vogue right now, at least in the circles that I run. And it's a complex thing - the technology itself is really just an evolution of the same machine learning that shows you banner ads on websites or decides which YouTube videos to recommend, but because it's called "AI" - "artificial intelligence" people get suckered into all kinds of very bad arguments about the nature of creativity and what really counts as plagiarism.

The tl;dr is this: human minds do not run on binary code, and these machine learning models are not AI, they are machine learning models. They are built with untold gigabytes of training data, consisting of photos and artwork that was used without permission, and however you want to slice that, that is theft. Being machine learning, they inherit the biases and limitations of the data they're trained on, and that puts hard limits on how creative it is possible to be using these tools and introduces a massive trend towards homogenization and the lowest common denominator.

There's a much longer historical precedent for what these tools represent, though: AI art is a form of automation, and you can find a much longer discussion of what that means and what the consequences are...

Right here:

[abi-is-personal]

Okay, usually I don’t participate in this stuff but I feel compelled to since

Freaking AI ART IS TRENDING?!

So, AI Art is a good tool to use for inspiration, it’s meant to get your mind flowing with ideas and some fun styles you wouldn’t have thought of on your own.

I’m not going to get into the discussion of “real” or “fake” art in terms of AI art because that conversation is way more complex than Tumblr realizes.

It is unfortunately sourcing all the images used to create the art without permission from the original artists, it’s not an ethical way to make original art. If the art that is used to create these AI generated images were sourced with proper permission from the original creators with credit given, then the conversation would be much different, but that’s not the case.

AI Art is a form of art theft. Please do not support AI Art on it’s own, you can use it as inspiration or a way to get some fresh ideas, but just using AI Art generators to create your own work isn’t going to be your own work.

It’s going to be stolen from another hard working artist.

[iholli]

Seen a couple takes on this and I'm going to say my peace.

Do not use AI to "create" ANYTHING.

No concepts, no prompts, nothing. Every time you use it, plugging in words and ideas, you're teaching it. You're making it evolve further. And you're encouraging the people pocketing money from it to continue to steal from real artists. Because yes, your "harmless inspiration" is still STOLEN ART.

There's hundreds of prompt generator websites out there that provide random phrases or sentences. Hell, there's tons of blogs right here that provide random drawing prompts all the time.

You need to put down a concept? Stick figures.

Do not use AI. Full fucking stop.

(also if you're using AI in any way you're going to be instantly blocked by 99% of the site. So just don't.)

[queensharotto]

How true artists view AI prompters

[gottalottasocks]

Oh God I think in the Inuyasha fandom we need to start watching out for AI users and making sure we support the incredible artists and writers in our community. I thought this was cute at first and almost didn't notice, but look at Kagome's neck and whatever is going on with Inuyasha's haori. Also Inuyasha has two sets of ears... We are so lucky that we have so many artists who put in so much effort to share their work with us, compared to this which is, frankly, crap

[tomlinfonda]

"Why are artists so butthurt about AI art? Horse carriage drivers didn't complain when they invented the car, they were just grateful that the technology evolved and made it easier to get around."

Art is not a carriage, it's not a vehicle. Its purpose is not to be efficient, to do a practical job with as little effort as possible. Art is not something that can be automated, because its artistry lies in the humanity of its creator. Art is wonderful, from a baby's first drawing, inexperienced and unskilled, to the paintings adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

If you consider yourself an AI artist, I ask you: are you proud of yourself when the computer has completed another image that you will claim as yours? Do you look at it and feel the joy of having created something?

Does the generative process teach you how to see the world better? With every image created, do you evolve? Do you understand the planes of the face better now than 1000 images ago? Do you know what rim light is, and where to put it? Do you understand light sources? Tones? Could you take a piece of paper and shade a portrait by yourself?

"AI software is just like Photoshop or Blender, the next step in artistic technology".

It's not though, is it? A digital artist uses a pen to put colors on screen, chooses where to put each brush stroke, when to smudge or use the liquify tool. A 3D sculptor manipulates basic shapes into characters just like a traditional artist molds clay. An AI "artist" doesn't make any of the thousands of choices that lead to the creation of a real piece of art.

"But art is hard, and I'm not good enough."

Neither am I! Man, I'm not the worst artist in the world, but I'm not great, still not at the level I would like to be. Sometimes I draw something and I look at it and realize that it sucks ass! Sometimes I post a drawing online and realize that I drew a character out of proportion, that the light source is not consistent, that I've shaded outside the lines! And you know what's great? That I get to have an understanding of what I did wrong! I get to evolve! I redraw something from 5 years ago and realize that my composition is much better, my shading more believable. And I know that in 5 more years, I might redraw it again and pride myself in how much I've evolved.

I've been drawing since I was a baby, and I still have a long way to go. And that is also fine, because art is a lifelong pursuit, growing, changing, just as I am.

It's okay to not be good. Hell, it's okay if you don't even try to get better. By drawing, you WILL. It's inevitable that, by practicing, you'll learn.

You know what will not make you a better artist? Software that will generate your "art" for you. The result might look more complex than what your skill level allows you to create right now. But it doesn't look better. You could draw a crooked circle on xerox paper and it will look better than all the AI art in the world. Because you made it. Have some faith in yourself. Your vision has more artistic value than what that computer generated.

"If you're afraid that AI will steal your job, learn to draw better!"

I'm trying. Are you?

[greekmythcomix]

TUMBLR ARTISTS

Right now, go to Settings (the cog) > Visibility and ACTIVATE THE THIRD SELECTION:

Don’t let AI take your art! Or your writing. Or, basically, your soul.

[catharsistine]

[the-irreverend]

I recently discovered the existence of AI technology designed to remove watermarks from images.

And just when I thought that AI ran out of ways to make me fucking sick.

[tiredsmashbros]

https://www.tumblr.com/tiredsmashbros/747424630530359296/yooo-this-is-so-cool-i-love-their-outfits-so

this is AI.

i legit had no idea... gonna keep this short and spread the awareness bc this can be srs if other AI artists are trying to lie and "pass". bc they're not tagging their work as AI i legit thought it was digitally handmade. probably bc they know they'll get bullied if caught LMAO

i'm unblogging immediately after posting this but in case the link anonymous gave doesn't work anymore i'm going to link the individual's account. you can make your own judgements, but that cowboy peach honestly screams AI from its inconsistency 😭

💥 DO NOT HARASS OR INTERACT WITH THEM. just block and move on. i do not condone harassment of any kind.💥

thank you anonymous 💛

https://www.tumblr.com/pixlgirl

[sketchmew]

AI ART CAN STEAL!

AI like Stable Diffusion is a big threat to artists like me and you, (Trust me I have played around with the AI, even trained it on my artwork before)

But AI art should only be used as inspiration, not for full on art.

If I ever catch you using my art to train an AI on it I will:

Block you

Report you

Let everyone in the Commewnity be wary of you

Thank You,

Mod Haycoat

[nayeonline]

so yeah today an orbit hacked the 'this is artms' spotify playlist and changed the cover and title in protest of modhaus using ai art in artms's upcoming debut teasers

i love this fandom