#a.i. art theft

[joshualunacreations]

Being an artist is hard.

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#artist struggles #artist life #exploitation #theft #capitalism #a.i. art theft #entertainment industry #starved artists #filam artist #asian american #my art #comic #artists on tumblr #joshua luna #josh luna

[mariluphoto]

Here is a website (by artist Jon Lam) listing articles, videos, and any info in regards to A.I.

Go check it out to catch up and stay informed! www.createdontscrape.com

#a.i. generated #a.i. #ai #art theft #ai art theft #say no to ai #create dont scrape #art #artist #comics #illustration #photography #visual artists #digital art #3d art #voice acting #videography #data #data laundering

[chaosyippee]

We really need to take a stand against AI. It is not okay. To steal others work just to make your own has never been okay. Artists, musicians, writers etc everyone is going to be affected and hurt by it. There are more negatives than there are positives. I have seen so many use AI in selfish ways; feeding something that is so harmful. It is very disappointing to see. I am unsure of how we can come together on this, but please fight against AI. Do not use apps trying to implement AI. Leave reviews talking about how deplorable AI is. Please speak out and let it be known how harmful AI is. We are stronger together. If anyone has alternative apps/ websites to recommend that do not use AI, it would be greatly appreciated.

#AI #A.I. #ai is theft #ai is a plague #artificial intelligence #ai is bad #ai is not art #ai is disgusting #ai is scary #ai is deplorable #NO AI #reject ai #ai is horrible #a.i. is disgusting #important #anti ai

[captainpirateface]

Me looking more fuckin' nuts than normal.

#captainpirateface #bipolardepression #chemicalimbalance #wtf #a.i. generated #a.i.powered #a.i. art #a.i. #ai artist #ai artwork #ai art gallery #ai artificial intelligence #ai art theft #ai art discussion #ai art me #ai me #artificial intelligence #i'm ugly #captain pirateface #CaptainPirateFaceLovesYou #sighthsandsoundsofinstagram #we have such sights to show you #sights and sounds

[shiftingcosmosart]

I wanted to talk about for a long while, my thoughts on AI “Art” and the impact it has on artists so I made a video about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74n57rGvok&ab_channel=CynderNightingale

#a.i. art #anti ai art #ai art is art theft #ai art discussion #youtube #youtube commentary #discussion #cynderdraws #cyndertalks #art discussion #small creator #black creatives #black creators #ai art isn't real art #human artist #stand up for artists #timelapse painting #timelapse drawing #speedpaint #speeddraw

[comic-art-showcase]

hello fellow comic art fans.

i am the goblin who runs this here blog. otherwise known as @jondoe297

i am extremely bummed that when i do come out and adress the followers of this blog directly it will be with this news. well. here goes:

Comic Art Showcase will indefinitely stop sharing our favorite artists' works until further notice due to the deal tumblr's owner is making with A.I. companies to sell data,enabling the theft of the works of the platform's users to scrape to train their A.I.

and here is a good article about what's going on

while for the over 5 years(!!) now that i have run this page and shared the love of comic art i am so passionate about,through ups and downs,i have kept this page strictly for doing so. not presenting any topics or ideas or even showing my own personality or linking my personal blog(even though i have been flirting with the idea recently. well i guess now is as good a time as any) i feel that if nothing else i have to use this specific platform i have,as it is,to address this topic as it is intrinsic and intertwined with this page's theme or activity. and i will not have it be an open buffet for these greedy corporations to scrape for data to feed the A.I. with which they seek to replace the very artists that i love and admire! even though it may be too late as we don't really know how long they've been doing this. well the inevitable came. and if this page is not deleted it will at least not be posted on for the time being. while we figure out what to do next.

in the meantime we can and have to all do what we can to fight for artists' and creatives' rights. if nothing else by not being a part of the theft and exploitation of them an their work. please do not use any generative A.I. programs for images or text. they work by scraping from databases of artists' and creatives' works without any permission,credit or compensation.

for now we can at least 'opt out' of having our content be shared with the A.I. companies in the settings.

keep in mind this seems to be only available on the web version and not on the app for now!

go to your blog settings from the corner here

ID/image description: a screenshot of the tumblr blog with a red arrow pointed at the options button. end description.

then go to 'blog settings'

ID/image description: a screenshot of tumblr blog settings with a red arrow pointing at the 'blog settings' option. end description.

then go to visibility. and turn ON the 'prevent third-party sharing' option. make sure to turn it ON not off.

ID/image description: screenshot of tumblr's visibility settings with the 'prevent third-party sharing' option turned on. end description.

and you have to do this for each blog and sideblog individually so make sure to do that!

and artists make sure to use Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork and images!!!!

here's a link to Nightshade

here's a link to Glaze

the best combination is to use Nightshade first then Glaze on your images.

Glaze creates a protective layer on the image to prevent A.I. from copying it. while Nightshade poisons the A.I. sotfware.

stay safe friends an i will see you around��

#comic art #no to ai art #no to ai generated art #no to ai generated images #no to ai #anti ai #artist rights #art news #artists on tumblr #create don't scrape

[beefcake-penguin]

So... this post is going to be quite different from my usual "blorbo-posting" and fandom related shenanigans, but I really want to put this out there, make my position clear, and maybe alert others who haven't heard this unfortunate news yet.

I am an avid horror film fan. I am always seeking out any and every new release. So I was eagerly anticipating getting to see Late Night with the Devil when it came out today.

Unfortunately, now that the film's creators themselves have confirmed that A.I. art was used within the film, I absolutely will not be supporting this movie.

It's hugely disappointing to me that a movie - and an independent movie at that! - would resort to using generative A.I. in this manner and I'm appalled at the creators of the film for doing this.

And I've already seen the bandwagon counter-arguments on reddit, so let me be clear: I don't care how "minor" the presence of the art is in the film. I care that this was done at all. These are the types of "baby-steps" that have led to A.I. being such a prolific cancer already. For it to infiltrate actual, studio-funded and released films, now?! That's too far. And for the argument of "Oh, its presence in the film is so small! It's really not that big of a deal!" I would respond that commissioning/hiring an artist to create something so "small" wouldn't have been a big deal in the grand scheme of the film's production budget, and would have been a HUGE deal for that lucky artist to get their work to be shown in a feature film. And it also wouldn't have supported the blatant art theft that is generative A.I., so that's a pretty big deal too.

Another response I'm seeing is: "How sad these people [aka: people like me who refuse to support the film in theaters because of this shit] are going to refuse to see this great film over something so minor!" To which I would say: I'm upset too, to be quite honest. I'm upset that greed and laziness in such a "minor" part of this film is going to keep me from seeing a movie that - for all intents and purposes - looks like a lot of passion was put into from the cast and crew and really looks like a horror film that would be right up my alley. But it is more important for me to stand on this principle: I absolutely refuse to support any project that contains ANY use of A.I., no matter how "insignificant" it might be. Because of course it will start small. A title card here, a poster in the background of a scene there. But is it "insignificant" or "small" to the artists whose work this A.I. is scrapping to generate its images? No, and you can be certain that it will also not be a "small" matter to other studios that see this and think that they can incorporate this abhorent technology into their films as well. A "minor" use of A.I. is a slippery fucking slope and it is NOT one that I will support or encourage.

#late night with the devil #anti ai #ai art is theft #i'm so profoundly fucking pissed at this. how fucking dare they? #and in that linked article they seem almost smug about it. absolutely atrocious #this was just kind of a word-vomit stream of consciousness post. sorry for any errors #i just really needed to scream angrily somewhere about this shit

[understandableparadox]

THE GREAT HOMESTUCK OC TUMBLR TUMBLR POLL!

128 Lovely little ocs, mary sues, gary stues and they-ry whos will be shoved into the proverbial grinder, vying for your wandering eye to see who the internet loves the most!!! soon, a google form will be made, there you can submit up to Two ocs, these ocs will need to be hand drawn and come up a short blurb detailing a few things about them!

the rules?

if you set out any hate towards another character or creator, you will be auto disqualified.

a.i art for a character if found will make your character considered in-eligible.

art theft will also carry the same penalty. meaning if you dont have the art, just go to farrgofiction, not that hard.

the character can be nsfw in origin but not in presentation, meaning they need to be clothed for the purpose of this contest.

Characters will be set in brackets of one v one at random.

this means that I am not setting any form of theme

im not trying to set big creators against small ones.

the Only Prize will be copy rights and the ability to show off your funny little guy!

So get hyped! the google form will be released soon and the comptition will be soon after!

Please share if you can!

#homestuck #polls #tumblr polls #ocs #contests

[maxwellatoms]

as a person on the inside of the animation industry, are there signs that we might be heading to another dark age of animation like the 1980s (e.g. animation is regulated to just glorified toy commercials or dark fantasy movies)?

"Kid Vid" regulations mean you can't advertise for stuff kids might buy from within a show anymore. Generally, you can't even have (say) Yogi Bear wearing a shirt with his best friend BooBoo's face on it as a gag, because "what if someone made that shirt one day?" Then it would be a retroactive ad, I guess? I'm not schooled in reverse-time law like studio lawyers, so I can't really say. Still, it's almost impossible to get even a fictional product into a kid's show these days, so I think the 1980s will probably stay in their timeline. At least in that way.

I do think a bit of a "Dark Age" is upon us, though. Maybe just a small one. Just a wee little snip of a Dark Age is all.

As far as I can glean, there are going to be precious few animated shows coming out over the next couple of years because not much was picked up during the pandemic. There are only a few things being developed here and there, and I'd wager that those properties "win" simply by existing in a competition-free environment. It takes a long time to produce animation, so almost anything greenlit right now is looking at a full year for turnaround. If you talk to people in the industry right now about jobs, they use words like "wastelend" and "ramen noodles".

Then you've got A.I., of course. The other night I was having dinner with a friend and I found myself in the A.I. conversation I always imagined myself having one day-- the one where we're talking with some immediacy about what the rest of our futures look like as artists, because we know they're not going to look the same ever again. It was pretty cool in a William Gibson sort of way, but I honestly didn't expect to be having that conversation for another decade. Turns out A.I. is becoming a problem right now.

I've already talked about the "art theft" angle, and that's not the problem I'm speaking about here. The problem I'm talking about is the "what do I do when what I do becomes trivial?" problem. If anyone can make a TV show or movie in a week or a day using AI assistance, who determines what gets seen? Networks, I'd imagine, would become redundant. You don't need to fork over $15 a month for Netflix if you can make Netflix-quality content yourself. And if you can't make anything decent even with A.I. assistance, surely someone on the internet can. There would be an incredible glut of content to choose from, so again... who decides what gets seen? An algorithm, probably. Who owns the algorithm?

Peak Dark Age will be the time period when the networks realize that they're going to die, and sink all of their resources into forcing their own survival on the rest of us. I imagine massive layoffs (you don't need multiple writers or artists or support staff when you've got the right tools.) Studios will want to own the tools (of course) and/or suppress the use of those tools by anyone who might want to cut into their profits. Expect to see "A.I. is just too dangerous for the public to utilize, so it needs to be left in the capable hands of corporations". Expect to see customizable Batmans, the ability to put your mom in any Star Wars, and the serialized fever-dreams of billionaires.

I think that's the next 5-10 years. And while that's happening, the tools will keep getting better and better until literally anyone can sit down, ask for an Oscar-worthy part-rom-com/part action movie starring a twenty-five year old Steve McQueen and and eighty year old Daniel Radcliffe rescuing Air Bud from the Death Star, and then watch the resulting film with some degree of satisfaction. There'll come a point when content of any visual, auditory, and written complexity can be generated on-the-fly, and the traditional limits of budgets and schedules will just be gone.

It's easy to spin off into fantasy and try to guess exactly what's coming. I could probably spin on that all day. But what I know is that the future of the animation industry won't look anything like what I've become accustomed to. And maybe that's okay because what I've become accustomed to looks nothing like the industry I started in. Things change, and you roll with the punches. Thanks to the self-fulfilling dystopian prophecy we find ourselves in, just about everyone on the planet is finding themselves rolling with the punches coming from the Powerful Greedy. That's less a "me problem" and more a planet-wide problem we should probably all sit down and hash out, like, yesterday.

My immediate problem as an artist (and yours if you're an artist too) is figuring out how to get your ideas seen in a world where the amount of entertainment content is exploding exponentially. Especially if you're the sort of artist who needs to eat and live somewhere.

So yeah, I think there's going to be just a little peppering of Dark Age coming up. But in every time of change, there are opportunities. Hey, I'm down for an animated Dark Fantasy movie. Let's do this!

#animation dark age #a.i. art #animation #the future #maxwell atoms

[vorpal-fnord]

I feel like there’s a big thing people people calling for the end of art theft in A.I. art generation are missing.

Suppose you get your wish. Suppose a class action lawsuit gets your desired result, and it is determined that the use of an artist’s work in training data without their permission constitutes a violation of copyright. Suppose that in spite of the lobbying of big tech companies like Google and Microsoft, the result sticks long term. Suppose that most countries pass laws or have similar lawsuits along these lines.

This is still only going to be a small victory. It is not going to kill A.I. art generation dead.

Sure, the current batch of software will have to pivot or rethink how they’re doing things. A lot of them might be pushed underground, or only be able to operate in the countries with the laxest laws.

But Pandora’s box has been opened.

Artists getting credit and getting paid for their art is not going to stop the future where companies want to use this promising new technology to not have to pay more artists. It’s just going to stop that technology from being in the hands of the little guy, like it is now. The only individuals who could afford all the royalties are going to be big tech companies.

Some behemoth like Google is going to commission a bunch of artists, and buy up a bunch of licenses, and dip into their extensive archive of public domain images, and they’re going to make a new Dall-E or Stable Diffusion or Midjourney, and it will all be legal and above board.

If you’re an artist, and your only discomfort with A.I. art is the lack of permission given, then maybe this will be a utopian outcome for you. Yay! Google might make a one time payment to a bunch of starving artists.

But if your concern is with the possibility of this technology to displace working artists, then this is probably the worst of all possible worlds. Not only will your job still be going away, but now instead of the trade off being that A.I.-generated art is now in the hands of the people, thanks to open-source projects like Stable Diffusion, you will have a world where only giant tech companies can afford to do A.I. art generation.

You’re screwed either way, but I would argue you’re more screwed in a world where the technology becomes centralized and only in the hands of a small group of tech monopolies.

I think people who feel threatened by this new technology, and who are throwing any half-baked argument against it at a wall to see what sticks should try and think about whether they’ll actually like the world they end up in if they “get their way” in the battle over creator permission and credit, but lose the overall war for the future of working artists.

#art theft #ai art #for artists #psa

[queens-nightmare]

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[submission]

Lets just say Snatcher mistook the submission for one of Vanessa’s cookies lol-

Okay, well, uh, thought I’d do something a little less cursed than that drawing of Moony boy with legs. Sorry I had to have the watermark on this one lol I’m terrified of that art theft a.i. going around. Hope you like it ^^

Now cubeupload is having some errors rn, so I think the image is in this submission hopefully- errors appear to be going wonky today

#submission #OH MY GOD THANK YOUR FOR RESUBMITTING #I AM SO SO SORRY FOR THIS #HE LOOKS AS HECK #THANK YOU VERY MUCH #ALSO I DOWNLOADED IT NOW IMMEDIATEY AND REPLACED IT IN THE POST BY SO THAT HE WONT DISAPPEAR AGAIN #fanart #queen's nightmare AU #Moonjumper

[saintmachina]

Once again, I am begging artists to stop calling their work "content".

The groundwork for widespread A.I. theft was laid by the atomization of artists from each other, the denigration of creative labor reflected in pitiful pay, and the way understanding art as “content" breaks the artistic process and product down into the tiniest replicable particles.

If the artist is nothing more than a freelance automaton assembling units of entertainment from existing materials, then why not replace them with a glorified copy machine?

The crisis isn't embedded in the tech. It's embedded in the way society understands art.

#woke up spicy about this #thoughts

[abisalli]

The problem with A.I. art isn’t that it’s “not art” it’s that it’s art theft

If those A.I. art programs were using royalty free/ public domain images or even creative commons or stock photos , then this wouldn’t even be a discussion.

#alas they use random pictures they find on (eg) Art Station #anti ai art #had a convo with my sister ages ago about how the one thing computers will never be able to do is create art #and yeah #I could go on a really long tangent why art only has meaning if done by human hand and art definitions etc #but I’m tired #and actually #I was on an AI art exhibit this year and it was really cool! #but do you think those artists just fucking stole other artists art to feed their AI?? NO!! #they had a whole board on how they curated images and where they got them from

[a-humble-waffle]

others have said it more eloquently but now i add my voice to the choir: a.i. art is theft and it sucks. a.i. writing is theft and it sucks. a.i. voice acting (????? seriously what the hell.) is theft and it sucks! don't be a thief. don't suck. (well. you know what i meant.)

#my posts #anti ai art #anti ai writing #i'm so serious about this #ai art is theft #ai writing is theft

[alieinthemorning]

Passionate Speaker [Kaveh]

Content: Fluff

Pronouns: None

Reblogs: Let me know that you enjoy my work and want to see more, so don’t forget to like and reblog (and comment in the tags. I love seeing people’s rambles in the tags)!

This work’s concepts, plot and original characters are my own which means I do not allow any sort of creative theft nor do I allow my work to be entered into any sort of A.I. bots. Thank you for respecting my space and boundaries.

Drinking with Kaveh was an experience.

He could either be drinking his sorrows away or buzzing happily about something that actually went right in his day.

Tonight it was the latter. He had been telling you about an extremely cooperate client, who was very receptive to his creative liberties, and input. And now he had pulled at his sketchbook, and was showing you what he had planned.

Honestly, you were lost, but you nodded along, and gave little comments where you could (you could at least compliment his art).

But then, your gaze wandered from the pages and found his face.

His brown eyes were bright, and darting across the page as his eyes caught something else he wanted to show you. His grin stretched wide across his cheeks, which were flushed from the liquor. He talked fast, and his voice trembled in excitement and joy.

You just couldn't help, but get all smiley when he spoke like that.

You also really didn’t mind getting caught when he went red, even down to his neck and tips of his ears.

“W—why are you looking at me like that?” He bit his lip, eyes darting from you to his sketchbook.

Your smile just widen.

“Because I love listening to you, Kaveh.”

Ko-Fi | Commission | Masterlist

#alie ficlets #alie ficlets: version 2.0 #kaveh x reader #genshin x reader