Then don’t pay for it. But if you are going to pay for it, isn’t it better to pay a real person that worked to create something over a corporation that automated the process?
If you want? You’re also free to pay for hand-kneaded bread at a traditional bakery from hand-harvested flour (damn harvesting machines taking the jobs of peasants!) You’re free to only listen to music in concerts rather than rely on cheap and automated reproductions (damn vinyls taking the jobs of bards!)
I think it’s weird to shame people for going with the cheaper, more efficient, industrial version.
Some jobs don’t call for art, they call for illustrations, and AI tools are perfectly adequate for that.
Of course it’s terrible that artists are losing out on illustration jobs, but I don’t see how it is meaningfully different from any other kind of automation taking jobs and why we should shame its users. Artists being undervalued in market economies isn’t a new problem, and shaming users is at best a temporary and leaky band-aid on the situation.
And what of the copyright free FOSS solutions? AI is just a tool in the digital artist toolbox, blame the corporations, not the digital artists. The same argument was made about photoshop 25 years ago, did that stop people paying for traditional art?
People paying for AI art is a boogyman that is being overplayed to hide the fact that the vast majority of AI art is made by the person who wants it for themselves. This is a new artform that there are new artists whom enjoy using it
I mean, I knew quite a few that would rip art from Pinterest for their dnd characters and games sooooo. I was the friend who by FAR commissioned artists the most for his characters, It’s probably close to 1k now I’ve spent on commissions overall. These people just hear “BUT ITS THEFT” and turn their brain off past that
Then don’t pay for it. But if you are going to pay for it, isn’t it better to pay a real person that worked to create something over a corporation that automated the process?
If you want? You’re also free to pay for hand-kneaded bread at a traditional bakery from hand-harvested flour (damn harvesting machines taking the jobs of peasants!) You’re free to only listen to music in concerts rather than rely on cheap and automated reproductions (damn vinyls taking the jobs of bards!)
I think it’s weird to shame people for going with the cheaper, more efficient, industrial version.
Some jobs don’t call for art, they call for illustrations, and AI tools are perfectly adequate for that.
Of course it’s terrible that artists are losing out on illustration jobs, but I don’t see how it is meaningfully different from any other kind of automation taking jobs and why we should shame its users. Artists being undervalued in market economies isn’t a new problem, and shaming users is at best a temporary and leaky band-aid on the situation.
And what of the copyright free FOSS solutions? AI is just a tool in the digital artist toolbox, blame the corporations, not the digital artists. The same argument was made about photoshop 25 years ago, did that stop people paying for traditional art?
People paying for AI art is a boogyman that is being overplayed to hide the fact that the vast majority of AI art is made by the person who wants it for themselves. This is a new artform that there are new artists whom enjoy using it
Asking a robot to make something for you (by tracing shit other people made) is not “being an artist” and never will be.
Lmao ok there grandpa. Enjoy being left behind while you create a version of reality that doesnt exist in order to explain why
It sounds more like you’re trying to convince people (and maybe yourself) of that than a statement of fact you’re sure about.
Nah that’s what y’all are doing
Writing stuff into a box and calling it “art”.
I just wonder how many of these people bitching about AI copyright are part of the pirating community.
I mean, I knew quite a few that would rip art from Pinterest for their dnd characters and games sooooo. I was the friend who by FAR commissioned artists the most for his characters, It’s probably close to 1k now I’ve spent on commissions overall. These people just hear “BUT ITS THEFT” and turn their brain off past that
Do you? Are you willing to pay 100 bucks for a hand crafted pendant or 25 for a similar item on amazon?