Hey artist what's is yall's opinion on A.I art?

[wolflu66]

Regarding AI-generated images, I view them differently from the perspectives of illustration and novels.

Illustration:
For illustrators, I can accept people using it for reference or to inspire some design concepts. However, they shouldn't directly use any part of AI-generated images in their illustrations.

For manga artists, I can accept using AI to handle some unimportant and tedious backgrounds, like crowds or distant city buildings. But main characters and important backgrounds still need to be drawn by human hands. Personally though, I wouldn't do this - I wouldn't let AI-generated images appear directly in my work.

Novels:
For amateur creative works, I can accept using AI-generated images as thumbnails or banner headers.
For commercial authors' novels, I don't accept their use of AI images.

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But regardless, I hate the behavior of those who profit from mass-producing AI-generated images. This has filled several art-sharing platforms I frequently visit with loads of poorly made digital garbage.

And some art-sharing platforms have done nothing about this - I can't filter out AI-generated works on them, which often results in entire pages where I can't see any human-created artwork.

[wolflu66]

What's more depressing are some malicious uses of AI.

For instance, I once saw someone take an artist's unfinished work during their live drawing stream, feed it to AI to generate an illustration and upload it first, then accuse that artist of stealing their work.

There are also some malicious internet users who deliberately use an artist's style to generate copyright-infringing content, causing that artist to be misunderstood and punished.

Not to mention the rampant cheating in art competitions now with people using AI-generated images.

I really don't understand why these people think AI images count as their work. From a realistic perspective, they're more like clients commissioning work rather than creators, yet they love to pose as creators.

[NickRowler]

It's ugly, uncreative, and a bit too overused.

It's mostly just recycled from other people's work, and sometimes not always done well. Like the anime AI look like photos with filters over them.

It doesn't help that companies are jumping on the bandwagon, it just makes AI Art feel like another lazy corporate style. I also feel like a lot of the original novelty of AI was sort of worn off. It feels passé. Like maybe starting out, people were curious about it, but now that it's everywhere, it's slop...it's brainrot.

[wolflu66]

Regrettably, AI-generated images lacking artistic value are already good enough for most people. In reality, most people don't have very high standards for images.

Where I live, this situation is getting worse. Besides some corporate official social media accounts starting to use AI images, many well-known brands are also using AI images on their packaging. This has taken away countless job opportunities from artists.

For me personally, the number of illustration commissions I’ve received has significantly decreased since 2023. Nowadays, opportunities for illustration commissions are very rare.

Additionally, some non-creators say things like: 'AI won't replace you, people who know how to use AI will.'
To me, this is like saying 'Guns don't kill people, people with guns do' - just unhelpful cold comfort.

[kyupol]

Art competitions should be draw right there at the physical venue.

And essay writing should be hand written. Done in the classroom within a specific alotted time frame.

Back to the old school days...

[Aleksei]

All Generative AI is bad AI, because all generative AI has been trained in copyrighted material. Only when the authors are rightfully compensated, once anyone can opt in if desired instead of a mediocre opt out, once there is transparency, maybe then generative AI could be considered as a 'help', bus as the nature of the technology is to find a middle point on their trained data, then al results will be just allucinations of reality. It won't give you real egiptian clothing, because it doesn't know it, it won't give you real medieval buildings as reference because doesn't know it. Its a cheap replacement for real investigative work and it should be avoided. Maybe as quick reference can have an utility, but nothing that should be considered esential for the final work.

[EncryptedWriting]

Oh honey you done struck a hornets hive.

Ai ain't art. Sorry, not in a shot within this gods green earth. What's made me pissed is references, Pinterest, Google, actual reference sites, its all AI.

Its trying to enter the art world like a virus and it's winning.

[Kowai]

Whenever I scroll through Pinterest or just about any website with art, I always see these slop AI "art" and it's getting really irritating now. I feel bad for the artists who actually put effort on making their art just to get overshadowed by AI, and it gets even worse when people are actually profiting from it!

[Lensing]

AI wouldn´t exist without theft,

Using AI makes you part of the problem.

[Rigalance]

Yeah I feel that seeing the millions of Patreon accounts profiting from A.I it's lowkey aggravating.

[Mohini9000]

AI generated imagery (not calling it "art") is garbage slop that no serious artist should even consider using.

Not only is it soulless, it literally steals other people's artwork that they've put the time and effort into.

[BoomerZ]

AI is here to stay and will only get better. There will be whole comics made from it. They will soon be able to copy styles. I dislike it, but it's fighting against the waterfall and companies will use it. Not too long ago, lots of artist (including me) hated the traced 3D model look, but it seems to be the norm now.

[TnrOfficial]

Absolutely not, it's completely ruined my experience, especially looking for references on art sites where everything is just flooded with AI junk.

[kitschensyngk]

At its worst, it's garishly ugly.

At its best, it's...STILL garishly ugly.

It rips off human artists, it's an excuse to not hire human artists, and its environmental footprint could prevent the birth of future human artists.

[Tubacabra]

@Rigalance It seems you've kicked an anthill only to find that it was a swarm of bullet ants... 🤣🤣🤣

[Lensing]

At its best, it's...STILL garishly ugly.

I think that this is wishful thinking and I wsih that this
would really be true

[Zhengo]

Like it or not AI art isn't going away now that it's out there. The best thing we can do is push for regulations on the datasets and making it so any AI generated product cannot be copyrighted. Companies might love cheaping out on hiring labor and replacing artists with robots, but they also love having an iron grip on their IP. If we make it so anything the companies make through AI is legal to be re-uploaded for free on the Internet, cutting into their profits, it might be a mild deterrent.

All these AI "artists" popping up claiming they "made" the art the AI spits out and so have full ownership is silly anyway. What they're doing is pushing some buttons so a software can interpret that using stolen datasets, then pasting it on the internet with maybe some rudimentary Photoshop. If that's enough to claim full ownership of a picture and legitimizes any money making venture, I might as well take that same picture and invert the colors and say it is now mine and I can make money from it too. Basically, this whole operation of AI feels like a scammer's business

[clarissapattern]

What are your worries? I watched Terminator way too young, so believe all negative things about AI

[justanothernerdling]

I actually got heartbroken regarding AI art for a dnd campaign. I was so excited about a new campaign, I offered to draw everyone's characters for tokens and such. I started gathering everyones references and the DM flat out said 'don't worry i got them all done with AI so you don't waste your time.'

That was my first red flag for that campaign. I'm no longer a part of it.

[NGChloe]

Its generally pretty garbage. Like its just ugly, it uses a lot of power, which hurts the environment, and its filled the internet with trash. I've been on sites where its just all AI art, and its always ugly as heck