DeviantArt’s new ai software 👀

@Calculus_Homework Amanda Kessler
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 03:07:21 +0000

@Calculus_Homework wrote:

Yeeaaah, I'm not on dA and haven't been since 10 years ago, but that would be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I don't blame people leaving for this, because having that on a site that's supposed to be an artist community is pretty insulting. Especially after all the hullaballoo it's been causing everywhere on the internet for the past few months now. I don't know what the dA staff was thinking.

As much as AI generated images could be used as an initial tool for creatives (and I'm sure that might've been the simple intent for it at the start), it is of course not being used as such. Non-artists are using it and calling themselves artists because they can type in words to a computer that pulls in imagery from various artists' works. The fact of the matter is that art and artists have always been exploited in various ways. Amalgamations of artists' works fused together into some weird bastardization of actual art... Like, that's a bool art piece as a statement, but that's not its purpose at all.
You could argue that AI generated imagery is like a collage--it objectively is not, though. And people are now claiming their AI generated images as their own work and selling it for huge dollars. No surprise that art-illiterate people are taking huge advantage of it. And with a site like dA adding it on as a feature for people to use and take from the community? What is the purpose of this sort of thing in that community? It is just totally bizarre imo and doesn't make much sense.

It's been a topic amongst the entertainment arts industry for a bit and, frankly, I'm tired of hearing about AI generated "art." I even had a person reach out to me for a job saying that they were gonna make a game with only AI generated designs because they literally didn't want to pay an artist to conceptualize designs for them (I kid you not, they said that out loud), and I refused to work with them. Tactless.

Sorry I sound so salty and ranted for a bit. I just can't standddd this stuff. It has, so far, done more harm than good. I still cannot fathom why dA is making this a thing on their site.