Theres A Protest Going On Against AI Art Over On Artstation, So I Feel Like Now Is The Time For Me To

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

just want to bring up this shot from the new promo because i haven't seen anyone mention it (it plays very briefly at the start of the ending compilation)

maybe my memory is just horrible but i am PRETTY SURE we haven't seen this belos shot before... what that creepy ass doing 🤨

Now that the episode is officially out, I can say!!! I WAS FUCKING RIGHT!! I was SCREAMING during the grimwalker scene, like!!! All those little hints of foreshadowing!!! It was so fucking close to the comic I drew back in november!! So satisfying to see theories I had be revealed as canon

Watched the newest Owl House episode with my partner because I'm unable to control myself!!! It's also more or less the only way to make sure not to get spoiled.

BUT I won't post anything about it before it officially releases out of respect for the crew and everyone with more patience than me

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Thanks for the questions, Sameth! 8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in Oh man, let's see... I don't really have any project I've completely lost interest in that's original. I have just a few and they're still near and dear to my heart. I have no idea if I'll actually get to them at some point or not though. One of them is a slice of life/horror VN. Another is a comic that's based mostly on a dream I had years ago and I still think about it sometimes. My main problem is not as much interest/motivation but feeling like I have to train/practice on something else before I can allow myself to work on the thing I actually want to do, even though I know it usually means that I never work on it because I'm not good enough yet. (oops)

In terms of fanart though, I was working during the height of the Undertale fandom on a Chara-centric sort of AU story that consisted of animated gifs like this one-- Looking back at all of them (I did like 13 or so), there are some English mistakes on top of the cringe art uh oh. I was way too shy about sharing my art at the time though so I put it on another account and I think I removed everything years ago.

Here's one as a treat

I don't have any interest in it anymore but it's pretty cute looking back at it now still, I can see the hard work I put into it.

I had also made the text animation in the most time-consuming way possible because... well I never claimed I was smart.

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

If it's art-related, I think... lineart? I hate doing lineart but I've learned along the years how to improve at it and I'm usually pretty happy with my result. Good lineart is really impressive to me though and can by itself make a cool piece without anything else. Having to Ctrl+Z 10 times before getting a correct line makes me want to perish, though. Between that and the risk of losing some appeal between the sketch and the line... 😔😞 Easily my least favorite step in a piece. 25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

Hmm... I can't really remember any instance of my art being compared to something in particular...When it comes to artstyle I tend to be pretty fluid/experimental. In one of my recent comics though, some people thought I was referencing SAO abridged which I had never seen before so I actually went and watched it lol

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