Personal beef. I think it is so sad that I can no longer trust any artwork to be real.

[Ferrets are Cool]

AI has almost completely farked that up now. I am not anti-AI, but I am against misleading your audience. If you are going to create new work off the backs of others, at least tell me.

[highplainsdem]

1. I am hoping that the companies profiting from AI using intellectual property and

art they had no right to use will be sued out of existence, and that courts will continue to rule that AI "art" can't be copyrighted.

I have seen stories about delusional AI-using artists thinking they should be able to copyright the prompts they give AI (never mind that the identical prompt can produce quite different results from AI every time it's given, just as ChatGPT prompts do with text).

Even saw a story where the "artist" didn't want to name the AI tool she used and called it her "secret sauce." Which is insane.

The people whose art was stolen to be pillaged and rearranged for AI art aren't being compensated.

And every aspiring human artist out there has to be wondering if there's any point in working to master painting, drawing, etc. if they might never get any recognition or financial reward for it, and it will just be ripped off by AI anyway.

Meanwhile, a lot of people who are no more creative than your average toddler, and who have little or no ability to create real art themselves and zero interest in bothering to learn since it's WORK, are thrilled to consider themselves artists because they were able to get AI to cobble together images for them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. This x 1000