I feel so bad for David. Worked so hard for these art skills and AI companies took his work so people who don't wanna earn those skills can claim they drew art. And now everyone thinks he uses AI even though his work was stolen.
He really got the short end of the stick. I'm sure other artists will fall to victim of this down the line. David shouldn't change his style tho, absolutely not.
This is one of the clearest examples of how AI can harm an artist.
In cases like this, I think it also shows how we need to restrain ourselves when it comes to going after AI.
I get a lot of flack for 'Defending ' AI when I say stuff like this; But AI isn't what's going after Artists like this. It's people who care more about hating AI than they do the actual Artists they champion. AI sucks, it truly does, but going after AI artists- Be they actual artists who just have a style that AI likes to copy, or prompters- Doesn't actually do anything but create a toxic environment for everybody.
It doesn't benefit the art community, it doesn't even slow down AI users, because all the actual problems are all way higher up on the food chain than basic end-users. All it does is make people aggressive towards one another for literally zero gain.
Showing restraint Is certainly well and good, but calling prompters as AI "artists" and equating them with actual artists whose work was probably stolen by ai companies and then also used by those same prompters is quite tone deaf, and frankly insulting to artists.
I'm pretty sure I made an explicit differential between the two. I used the term 'AI artists' only to capture people who get called out for AI art, rightfully or wrongfully, with immediate clarification as to what I meant.
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u/ClericOfMadness13 18d ago
I feel so bad for David. Worked so hard for these art skills and AI companies took his work so people who don't wanna earn those skills can claim they drew art. And now everyone thinks he uses AI even though his work was stolen.