I just wanted to say you don't need to feel bad about using AI. I've been drawing for quite some time and have recently started experimenting with local image generation with the help of ComfyUI. It's been a lot of fun! Every form of expression is valid, so don't let the hate comments get to you.

I think the backlash will fade over time, just like it has with every new tech.

Using AI doesn't limit you from trying different forms of art. It gave me the motivation to start practicing digital art too! Though that doesn't mean you have to follow the same path. Whether you choose to use AI, pencil, drawing tablet, or a mix of them, or something completely different, it's all valid!

I'm including some drawings I made to show you that you have the support of an artist like me (if I can call myself that lol), and that not everyone is so narrow minded to feel the need to bash on others for expressing themselves differently.

Note: Some of them are older, and I forgot where the references came from, sorry!

I hope the AI ​​haters will redraw this. Someone needs to help these art get better, lol

Post about father-son bonding. The father makes a funny meme, himself into Iron Man. The son accepts but it's obvious that he doesn't approve of the technology use. Comment section is wild. The user under it is being sarcastic based on his name that was really troll-like.

this is another essay that I liked on the matter. It represents my entire exhaustion of having to label every essay for a big, massive megacorp and being, anti-worker or anti-labor.

There are going to be misuses of this tech, but ultimately, I know this isn't going to be abandoned and gone away anytime soon.

Tech, in an aristotleon sense, is art. And with that in mind, we must be both compliant and aligned with such tasks in a found-herent sense epistemologically, if I dare use some philosophy right there. Reading Susan Haack's the passionete moderate.

I don't think pangram will ever go away. There was something by the argument called the argument that managed to do another trying to it... I don't object to it; it is what we're really going to have to learn to get along with in the coming years. And that way, it's gonna keep going.

It's going to keep going, isn't it?

This is the first episode of the animated Series GAME OF POWER. Take a look. I am sure you will love it.

So these images were prompts that just didn't match what I wanted, but I couldn't delete them because I liked them so much. The first four just reminded me of some graffiti art that would fit in Cyberpunk, and the last four, well funny thing is they were made from a photo of me when I was high. The look nothing like me at all but goddamn I love em.

I've never strive for perfection in anything I make because I'm just not a perfect being and those mistakes kinda define you I think.

I actually don’t so much need an image generator that does “explicit” images so much as one that doesn’t have the annoying safeguards. Anything mildly suggestive is forbidden for a lot of them. Any that are capable of making fan art based on the originals but can handle things that are suggestive without alarm bells? Recommendations? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pack it up guys apparently Character Ai was the main driving force of the ai bubble, I suggest saying goodbye to Claude and ChatGPT and Grok and Canva and Gemini. Cause apparently C.ai was the only one keeping it all together. /s
They really can’t be this dumb can they?

Anyway, while riding the malfoid trend on twitter i realized a lot of people are liking my posts bc they didnt realize its generated with AI. There is this post, and a few others that look a lot like digital drawings. a lot of people who like my posts are against ai in their profiles.

OMG

Guys, if you’ve had a bad day (for REAL REASONS—I know you DO have them, not like the nonsense you can totally ignore, in the case of the person who made the comic) and want to laugh for a bit, come check out this nonsense

I saw it on Twitter, the social media platform with the highest number of spoiled, privileged brats who call themselves “artists”

Damn! Even the replies are funny! And THANK GOODNESS there are some people with common sense.

I WISH my life were SO EASY that a few computer-drawn cartoons could ruin my entire month LOL

I recommend checking out the whole comic so you can get a better idea of the poor, eternal suffering of this innocent soul

This has been going viral and im pretty sure its AI but how can i replicate this style?

I think everyone here knows antis are hypocrites who are (usually) only against AI for selfish reasons that they can mask behind legitimate concerns. I think one of the biggest forms of hypocrisy antis engage in is their changing of the "P-word" and definitions when it comes to...

***Piracy V.S. Plagiarism***

Most antis are in the age group where they think piracy is morally good or morally neutral. My personal opinion on piracy is irrelevant, but I think it's generally a bad thing that is usually pretty harmless and not worth fighting. A lot of antis, however, defend game/software piracy with their lives. Since piracy is morally good or neutral (according to internet obsessed teens) antis need another word to describe AI training, so they use plagiarism. The reason luddites had to swap the p word is so they arent such obvious hypocrites, but its pretty obvious that their defense of piracy and hatred of AI is hypocritical if you listen to their talking points.

"Piracy isn't bad; the way to not have pirates is to price your product more appropriately and be more consumer friendly. It's the company thats greedy". Do I really need to explain why this is hypocrisy? Commissions are way more expensive than most can afford, so they use AI. Most people buying commissions on sites like Twitter are younger, so making your prices so high that the average college kid or high schoolers without a job cant afford them is moronic.

"Piracy isnt theft by definition because its a club good. No physical product was lost, which means me stealing it didnt cause the company to take a loss". I never liked this argument for piracy to begin with. Again, the same can easily be said about digital art, even more so if it was a commission and the artist was already paid for its creation.

"Me pirating it didnt cause the company to lose money because I never would have paid for the product to begin with". This is one of the funniest ones that digital artists use because a lot of the people who use AI never would have paid for a commission and those who still pay for commissions hate AI. I paid for a commission once and it was because it was a friend that I wanted to support due to them being nervous about AI in their industry, so now you might also make more money through commissions.

"Sure, piracy can be kind of bad, but only if its from indie devs. Pirating from large studios is such a small, or nonexistent, amount of loss for them that it doesnt matter". Do you think AI trains off of your Sonic fanart or the games and official art? Why do you think early AI art models looked so much like a weird Pixar promotional piece?

I want to believe they were trolling...but it doesn't look like it...my head hurts...