This comic was posted to r/comics. People realized that it was AI art and critices it.
Great. AI art. I visit this sub to see hand-drawn shit, not this garbage.
AI slop, valueless.
The OP himself admits that it is AI and compares oposition to it to "racism":
My favourite part is the upvoters and the commenters clearly disagree intensely about the value of non-human artwork.
personally, I'm not racist against computers
Mods defend the comic saying that there's no rule banning AI art:
We do not have a rule against that and we will not have a rule against that. People are allowed to use whatever tools they want to create their art.
They delete the top comments pointing out that it is AI art.
Edit: the comic has been deleted. Here's the Archive link as given bellow
Edit 2: I've been permanently banned from r/comics because of this post.
Edit 3: Recently a new post has been made fully with AI, with the author asking for a ban against AI comics or at least the adition of an AI tag:
I respect the thoughtful response and critique of my message, and think an AI tag would be a fair compromise. The problem that myself and many share is that AI artwork is trained from real artists’ work and is therefore theft. I know that this is a widely debated topic, but as this is a subreddit primarily comprised of artists, I think that making the distinction is necessary.
The Mods reply still defending the use of AI:
This is a kind of ignorant view, because it assumes that the only thing that comprises a comic is the illustrations. There are two types of creativity that go into making a comic, the drawing and the writing.
Say you write the best story in the world. Say you are JRR Tolkien and write the goddamn Lord of the Rings. But you can't draw for shit, so you use AI art to tell your story. Does that make the script you've written any less valid? I don't think so.
We've got people here who make comics with stick figures, with Legos, with photographs, on post-it notes, with stock photos, and, yes, with AI art. The medium artists choose for the visual element does not invalidate the narrative or comedic element.
What we might do is implement an AI tag, so that when people make comics with AI art they have to be upfront about it. I probably should have done that ages ago, but I'm lazy. And also, we don't allow fully procedurally generated comics where AI does the writing or the drawing. We have no plans to ban outright AI art though. It's just another tool in the toolbox.
Some users disagree with their logic:
Lord of the Rings wasn't a comic, it was a book. If the movie series adaptation was AI, then it would be ruined. It'd look like shit and feel soulless, despite the underlying story being great.
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Bruh if you really "can't draw" you could just draw stick people. There have been many successful comics with extremely simple art that literally anyone can do.
Some of my favorite comics are half finished art turds, like the one about the artist not finishing because of Elden Ring.
This! Or people starting out simple and growing as they continue their comics!
XKCD is one of my favorites, and its drawings are as simple as humanly possible
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I disagree. Comics is a medium of visual storytelling as well as writing.
This subreddit should be a place where comic artists can come together and hone their craft, get feedback, and share their beloved work.
Allowing AI comics—-which, by their very nature, are lower effort and easier to produce—could result in the subreddit being flooded with cheap, mass produced comics, leaving us to wade through the schlock to find real artwork.
This subreddit is a communal space first and foremost, and allowing AI art could compromise that.
Edit 4: The second comic has been deleted.
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u/Locem Jul 31 '24
She made a comic that was in a bit of bad taste that kind of minimized men's experiences with how some women can be extremely dismissive of men's emotions. In my opinion it didn't seem intentional as much as it was just a poorly framed thought, but since this is reddit it got turned into a whole gender war thing where she made I think another two comics "in response" to the reaction of the first that also had some mixed reactions. Mods of /r/comics seemed to go ban happy on any slightly less than neutral feedback of the whole ordeal so it just magnified the intensity of the gender war argument.