Lack of AI Presence on Tapas?

[Sovus]

I used to frequent here eons ago on an old account. I stopped writing and illustrating, went to college, started a new career. Life got less busy and I was able to come back to my hobby. One thing that I noticed changing on pretty much all my old art socials was that every site was flooded with AI art, especially DeviantArt (no longer used it anyway) and even Artstation, where I hosted my professional portfolio and used to get some freelancing gigs from.

Even on just a cursory glance of the front page, I noticed there's a distinct lack of any AI art. Did I get a lucky front page roll, or has Tapas and have webcomics in general, managed to avoid the great flood?

This topic is a genuine question, not intended to incite heated debate about the topic of AI itself. I've heard all the ethical points for and against a million times, I'm sure we all already have. For the purpose of my question, this is considered off topic.

[kyupol]

Tapas and most users here are against AI art. So much that even when I post ai art of my OCs (I blatantly say its AI) in this forum I get told off.

AI is of the devil in this site. So that's why...

[vapidink]

The first page is for premium comics and those usually have covers commissioned by Tapas or made by the creator. The community page has the indie stuff, so you're likely to find a handful of AI covers there, but not as many as in other sites. Tapas does their best to keep AI out of the site and users can report content they suspect was made with AI. Having a rule against the use of AI generated content does a lot to keep it off the site.

[Sovus]

Avoiding the whys, but any space traditionally founded by people driven by self improvement were never welcoming to people claiming to have made something they didn't. Tracers and blatant thieves (people taking an image off google and posting it under their name) were always outed and chased off. AI is just a modern evolution of those two as far as artists are concerned. It would be better to find communities welcoming of it than to demand acceptance in places that never entertained it to begin with.

[Sovus]

That explains it. I was a bit stunned thinking the site seemed entirely pristine. Even the few sites that decided against allowing AI had no reasonable means to detect it on submission, so many still flew under the radar.

[NGChloe]

AI is considered illegal. Some people will use if for PFPs, but for books, ones with AI are immediately called out and reported. Tapas has a very low tolerance of AI

[Krysteena]

I had tapas almost shut me down cause people reported my art as AI I don't normally record everything I do but to protect myself now, Also I changed my art style more as well so it looks less AI/Realism which is what I am good at. I have to! It is so silly You can tell the difference but whatever. I hate AI also but what is the difference in using models in some cases or premade brushes and such. The difference is 1 is 8 hours the other is 22 hours
Top is old style bottom is newer (still adapting I want to make manga one day.)

[Kelheor]

Also I changed my art style more as well so it looks less AI/Realism which is what I am good at. I have to!

No, no, you really don't "have to"
Will you continue catering random people from internet and change your style every time? Will you do it again when they'll try reporting your new style?
I'm sorry, but this is just disheartening seeing fellow artists jumping through hoops over AI madness.

[mushroom]

well that makes me sad to see. We shouldn't really have to adjust to look like we didn't use AI.

It's like that whole ordeal of if you see "--" in a text, it's automatically assumed to be AI generated. No-- people have used that before they probably even knew what it's called, and I'm going to continue using it.

[Breeze.Hill]

Comic in general have definitely not avoided the ai plague.

I know webtoons has a lot of comics that are ai or don't follow their censorship guidelines. They can even get mass reported and they'll still be up.
But webtoons has a lot of issues only getting worse with each passing year.

I think with tapas it's either a difference in audience, or they have a better algorithm/ moderators, that actually take action and ensure ai stays off the website.

[miuthecat]

Hmm, currently AI are too dumb to make comics, mostly because AI art lacks consistency from one drawing to the other, but that might change in the future, expect to see a tapasai in the next two years, sketchy/lame art is the future, so, I'm getting good at that type of art, it'll re-conquer the world after former art big names like artgerm have been made extinct by AI.
ART FUTURE BELONGS TO THE NOOBS, YAY \o/

Speaking of webtoons,they suck, they deleted my comic because of a word, yet they have tons of scammy comics hosted on them such as sex advertisements and such, screw them... I never liked the webtoon format anyway... too damnn loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

[Sovus]

I found myself overcorrecting my uses of dashes lately because of that, too.

[Krysteena]

I know It is more time consuming as well so I don't mind doing both like when you have the close up pieces that is a bit extra as a treat to the reader once I get the manga going. it take 8 hours just for the piece with 3 people.

[Krysteena]

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[LunarScyphozoa]

Yeah man, because we’re all artists. You show up to the baking conference with your slice stealing machine people won’t like it even if you’re honest about where your cake came from. Know your audience, and maybe look into how ai generation works.

[Stargazer31]

Because this is an art website not a talentless plagiarism Spewer device website

[thepenmonster]

[miuthecat]

Btw, II see many people beeing fooled with AI art in these forums, I recommend this site to check if an image is AI or not, it's way more acurate than the browser extensions.

[abigaillmartin]

Starry. You just ATE girl!
thunderous applause

[Krysteena]

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