Ai Art Is Not Art - Blog Posts

Normalize stealing from AI "Artists"

Few of the artist affected by AI art thievery.

Posts by Jon Lam Art.

When your work decides to sell ai art...

I work at a craft store. Wtf.

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. 

Unpopular opinion

AI art isn't Art.

You can use it on your own art to expand on what you made and see if you can or should change or add anything.

That's how it should be used. It should be used by Artists.

Not AI "artist"

Typing a description into a machine and having it pop out images isn't art.

Typing description into a machine and having it pop out a story isn't art.

Art is human expression, Art is a human thing.

AI art is just a program generated image or letters of mashed up pieces of human art.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

If you disagree or are offended by my stance on this matter the unfollow and block button are right there.

Just for the record

Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

I am rather firmly set in my belief that nostalgebraist-autoresponder is the only good ai.

Reblog to kill it faster

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.

Id say give the ai generative 'art' software depression so it stops producing anything but all my best work was in a depressed fever dream and im afraid itll transcend to personhood if it grows emotions

Are these official? They look like Ai, look at the first image of Simeon, look at his head, and look at Barbatos' hands in second image,,

not even gonna mention the feet lol but Diavolo's in the second image specifically are wack

THE SIDE CHARACTERS ARE GETTING BODY PILLOWS!!!

I’ve posted the link for it for anyone who wants to get one ~3~