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As someone who has been an artist before,
and had my hard work stolen by billionaires without compensation and my copyright violated against my consent,
I cannot tell you how much rage and disgust I feel inside every single time I see a genAI image. I'm guessing many other artists feel the same. Please keep it out of my sight at least.
I did a short thread this morning about the fact that blocking scraper bots entirely will also block the two biggest search engines.
It particularly hits home at the moment because I'm seriously stressing about pricing my work and whether, even if I get the pricing right, I will be able to make any of it pay for itself. Meanwhile literal trillionaires feel like they can take my work and do what they want with it.
If I am ever made emperor, they will be sentenced to life of hard labor picking up trash on the roadside or cleaning up toxic waste.
In the meantime, I block people who post machine generated crap.
I'm not an artist, but definitely feel angry when I see AI generated art. I am a musician and feel the same as you when anyone talks about AI generated music (have thankfully avoided listening to any thus far).
There's no talent or skill or years of practice. And it's shit to boot. Souless and empty even if technically 'good'.
Keep doing art anyway, this bubble will burst eventually 🤗
@Em0nM4stodon I'm not really an artist, and I feel a kind of visceral, deep-in-the-hindbrain revulsion when I see and recognize diffusion model images. *Especially* when it's printed on something in "the real world" (eg. a terrible book cover).
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