i am always thinking about that one asura in taimi's lab who, upon not recognizing the commander, snarks something like "oh, i'm sorry, i didn't bring my heroes of tyria flash cards with me today 🙄"
was he just joking or do those exist. heroes of tyria TRADING cards, even???? are children across the realm kicking and biting each other over a holographic trahearne
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Listen guys I know I will never be much good* (or even enjoy, tbh) calligraphy, but my mother-in-law keeps giving me old “the basics of calligraphy!!” sets that she finds at goodwill that obviously someone got as a gift in the 90s and never even opened and I enjoy collecting the inks and tiny ceramic bowls and inkstones so, so much ☺️
*this isn’t poor self esteem btw this is clear eyed & serene knowledge of where my skills lay and the answer to that is in art forms that do not require steady hands and good spatial awareness. I like digital art and fiber crafts lmao.
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from the fake “art deco era” dress picture going around to “Emile Corsi” I’m wondering what people’s takes would be on using already generated AI images as inspiration for real, human made art. After all, if at least a first glance at some of them leads people to think it’s real (AI is getting better in some ways, the hands aren’t always such a tell,) and the image itself is real in that it’s there in front of you making you think and feel things, is there a degree of separation from the art scraping/theft that would make people more comfortable with using it as inspiration, as long as it’s not encouraging people to generate more? I’m not talking direct copies, not even necessarily direct copies but having things like anatomy errors fixed, I’m not even talking about me specifically, (though I have used one as a pose inspiration before for something not posted, only because the pose suited what I wanted so well for a particular character and again I can’t simply pose my siblings like dolls,) but just in general.
To be clear I’m talking about possibly not even linking to the AI image or whoever generated it, at most mentioning that it was inspired by AI images but I guess not in such a way as to give credit where credit is dubious, or to drum up interest in using AI more. …Or would that be two wrongs not making a right? I guess since no artist is obligated to show everything that directly inspired a particular work this could all be just my brain cycling in a loop for no reason, going back and forth about something no one has any real issue with. I know where I stand on having someone’s work scraped and fed into a generator without their consent, but where is the line between not using that and benefiting from someone else using it? I take inspiration from many artists, but I cannot literally copy their art. The best I can do is try a master copy, mimicking as best I can and learning from it, but I’m not a robot. My own style will creep in, for better or for worse and if I want something new drawn in their style I can save up for commissions when available.
I guess my question is, if you knew someone had fed your art to a generator and posted the image it came up with, how would you feel if you knew someone else was inspired by that image to create something new?
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i feel like the only person who feels this way but if someone wants to delete their fic instead of anonymizing/orphaning/whatever than that is the author's choice. obviously you're allowed to feel upset but in the end the author made the choice that was best for them. if they wanted to orphan it they would have. sometimes the choice that upsets the reader is the choice that is what works best for the author.
if you're a fic author and you're thinking about deleting your fics. know that orphaning and anonymizing are options for you. and know that you have no obligation to do those because you don't want to upset your readers. you know yourself best. do what you have to.
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