Ai Art Is Not Art - Tumblr Posts
I’m getting really fucking upset about all of the ai art all over the place it’s getting to the point where I can’t even do research for references of historically accurate wardrobes and shit without spending hours filtering it out. Like FUCK CAN I JUST GET SOME CAVE ART OF SOME OLD ASS CLOTHES UGH or like a picture of LITERALLY ANY EGYPTIAN WOMAN OR NORDIC I just want my old stuff back
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.
What is spoken cannot be unspoken
HEY UPDATE! APPERENTLY ITS AI?? GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!!!!! WE CANT HAVE SHIT!!!! WHAT THE HELL YOUTUBE??? I WAS RIGHT KINDA, HE DIDNT PRODUCE IT I THINK, IF HE DID THEN THAT SUCKS
hey Will Wood fans what’s going on?
The auto generated YouTube channel for will wood and the tape worms just uploaded some instrumentals. One has 3 songs called myself and the other has one song called black rose I think.
So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.
AI art bros are big mad about it.
So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.
And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently.
Check this out:
“+Human”. No names, no nothing.
I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. Hilariously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.
The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.
EDIT: a lot of people are unsure what the anime’s called - it’s The Dog and the Boy.
Not sure if this will help but there are sites you can use to 'poison' your art so AI can't steal it. I'll add links once I find the sites again.
Links to programs to protect your art
1. Nightshade
2 Use Glitch Filters
AI can't process glitch effects properly, resulting in corrupted results. Glitch filters can be found on free apps like Picsart and even art programs like Ibis Paint X.
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
PSA 🗣️ another scammer using genAI without disclosing it
pixlgirl has been posting generated AI (targeting fandoms) without disclosing it, passing it off as their genuine art and has apparently scammed at least one person into ‘commissioning’ them. this is a public PSA so yall can block them, and not interact. please do not harass them!
it’s incredibly shitty to be disingenuous while posting AI but even shittier to scam people with it 🤢 stay diligent yall
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I hate AI "art"
i hate AI. its not even worth calling "AI art" because it's a souless mashup from stolen artwork made by people to lazy to attempt to begin drawing or expressing themselves creatively. It will never mimic the human emotion behind a 5 minute doodle on paint.
Blue hair, Blue tie, Hiding in your wifi!
hello everyone,, im deeply sorry for not posting art for a while, school has been busy lately and i dont have alot of time to make art while im juggling school, homework and ballet/dance all together '^_^ i'll post some more art soon, feel free to put some requests in my question box! <3
In lieu of recent events
Don't be fooled y'all... It's AI.
I don't mind people using AI as a tool, but just posting it and claiming it's your art isn't an okay thing...
Elvira × 80's Anime 🖤 📷 @dollycypherart
They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.
Ai art needs to go down fr.
hi guys. not to call anyone out, but this person is posting AI art. remember that AI art is bad and steals from REAL artists with no credit. I can’t contact this person to tell them to take it down but if anyone is able to be my guest. Just remember to not be rude and not be a shitty person
anyways, support Real Human artists
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Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.
Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.
Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?
So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)
Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.
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I am rather firmly set in my belief that nostalgebraist-autoresponder is the only good ai.
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