In three months I have increased my AI interest. There are many AI tools. I generated this Caribbean sunset in Jamaica with one AI tool. I have been in Jamaica three times.
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Thats awesome. Good to see you learning the tools 
Excellent, I have also created songs such as āDriving across Americaā, the AI tool generated lyrics and music, very good, when I lived in my car in America (2000.2002) I drove four times across America, America has many beautiful places.
An AI generated image āDriving across Americaā
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I wasnāt going to say anything. But I canāt be silent, since this issue effected me directly. Maybe some of you didnāt know this, or realize what itās like being an actual artist so I will educate: Many AI programs were trained on a database containing about 5 billion images. These copyrighted images were scraped from the internet, without permission, from artists and photographers (some of these people have disabilities of different kinds).
Corporations used a legal loop hole, collecting these images under the guise of research. Artists and photographers didnāt get any compensation (Yes, no pay of any kind. Most of the money goes to a small group of people, will us workers treated like crap). On top of this, these companies were vile enough to use the names of todayās working artists as a type of style selection, undercutting their prices.
AI is poison to the art community. I closed my art account (with almost 3,000 followers) because I became paranoid my work and name would be used without permission/compensation. Iāve been depressed over it since the end of last year. Sure it was my choice to close it, no one forced me toā¦but, itās bad enough Iām too ill to make money off my work or handle the business side. I donāt need one of these corporations using the work I posted over one decade to get money I will never see.
I try not to feel hate. So I offer this just to raise awareness.
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Well said @anon70814080 , I do think that many AI tools have good value, for example I can quickly learn what f,ex. the President of Finland has said on different social media platforms within one week, many AI art tools are becoming so good that it may scare people, but @anon70814080 well written.
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That makes sense. AI probably isnt even real anyways. Just a bunch of random input/outputs collected online, displayed on screens and whatever else they do with stuff. i prefer real work, like Im alll for random inspiration. But its one thing if it makes you inspired and another if its becoming a tool or wasting your own ideas.
Yeah unfortanately to build the ai tools companies trained on all art. Also all code from github including private repositories.
But cant turn back time so may as well utilize it for your benefit for now
This is just something powerful company owners love to say so they can rake in all the money, while the lower workers get screwed over, either being paid less to fix what AI made, or being replaced entirely. People laugh at artists now, but AI may very well screw them over too. The only good thing thatās happening is that I donāt think AI art can be copyrighted right now since a person didnāt make.
There is no benefit to me with programs like Midjourney. They stole from people I looked up to. I will never use them. I canāt go back to graphic design. If someone wants me to make AI stuff with the Adobe software, I would refuse. I donāt even want to use Adobe software. They stabbed artists in the back.
If I suddenly got well and could work again, making illustrations is a closed door now, unless I become elite at it. Itās now becoming a niche market. Iām too tired to be trained in anything else. Iād have to go all the way back to high school to get credits for the career Iām interested in, and then another four years of college training. The SZ and diabetes would make that near impossible.
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Yeah thats capitalism. Its unfortunate but thats,the world we live in.
So its in most peoples best interest to learn about the space and how it could assist you. Its a great business tool.
I think that atleast people that make art could watermark it and say āmade with aiā or something to differentiate from people who still like to craft it themselves.
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Sadly, a lot of people will never do this because they love the false sense of valour they get from signing their name to AI generated image and pretending they made it.
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At least my Siberian village painting can not be generated by AI, I painted this and other paintings in 2005.
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@anon70814080 I think @LevelJ1 is talking about glazing. It is a program that corrupts data scraped from stolen art so the AI canāt get any meaningful image from it and ends up outputting āmade with AIā
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I remember reading about Glaze a year ago. It didnāt look very nice. My computer had to have certain specifications too. There was something I didnāt want to install (thatās another story that I donāt want to go intoā¦my computer was already having issues at the time). I didnāt want to be a guinea pig either for the software. I could look into it againā¦
Also, even if I applied Glaze to my art right now, itās too late. I closed the art account that had almost 3,000 followers (the company stabbed artists in the back by creating their own AI programā¦so many people left). Iād have to start over somewhere else. There is a human art only siteā¦but I couldnāt get past 40 followers for weeks, so I got depressed and closed that account too.
Maybe dont worry about turning your passion into a validator or for profits. Just enjoy the fun aspect of it.
Iāve switched to working on my novels. I find itās good brain food to come up with the best way to write each line, and the hobby is still new enough to hold my interest. With art, I think I always did it for appreciationā¦which is fine to an extentā¦weāre social creatures and need social things, but when it became the only thing that matteredā¦then thatās doing it for the wrong reason. Now, I canāt go from getting 400 to 600 likes for each art to next to nothingā¦I have no motivation to make more art (even if I found the process interestingā¦it isnāt enough).
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Yeah understandable. Ive generally tried to avoid putting importance on likes or approval but yah we are human and it all gets us at some point lol.
On my youtube account i usually keep likes uncountable and comments deactivated. I just like to share without judgement or perceived.
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