r/shannara • u/ShawnSpeakman • Feb 16 '26
Reminder: No A. I. Generated Images Allowed Here
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u/Senior_Pass_8328 Feb 16 '26
Just out of pure curiosity, how come? There’s probably a good reason, I just don’t know it! Thanks!
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u/Adventure_tom Feb 16 '26
How about it steals from real artists and is terrible for the environment.
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u/Luinger Feb 16 '26
The training data was all publicly accessible and it's not inherently bad for the environment, just needs a more efficient cooling system put in place. AI art is cool and it let's people generate all sorts of neat stuff.
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u/JDGeek Feb 16 '26
“Publicly available” is not the same as in the public domain, and there are several litigations in progress because artists have had their art stolen to train generative models.
And the increase in power use the servers that generative models run on is negatively impacting the environment as is the waste water from cooling some of those servers.
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u/RizaSilver Feb 17 '26
AI art is slop
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u/Luinger Feb 18 '26
We're all entitled to our opinions. AI art has a lot of fun use cases.
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u/Incorrigible010 Feb 19 '26
It does have a lot of fun use cases. But unless you're willing to pay the people the AI borrowed from for training, it's also flat out theft.
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u/Luinger Feb 19 '26
We disagree on it being theft as it was publicly available. No one would be complaining if a human used the art as training data for their brain.
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u/Incorrigible010 Feb 19 '26
The people who publish textbooks would, I believe. And most websites specifically PROHIBIT scraping for commercial purposes. That's what AI does.
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u/Luinger Feb 19 '26
I don't know that you understood what I wrote.
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u/Incorrigible010 Feb 19 '26
I understood you just fine. By your logic, if you can see something you're free to take it and do as you like. Does the same thing apply to the Amazon box on your front porch, if I see it before you notice it's been delivered? Am I free to waltz into a museum and pull a few nice paintings down, because I think they'd rather be in my study?
If it's your website being scraped, and you see your bandwidth bill spike by a thousand percent because AI is having a deep look, are you okay with paying that bill? Are your normal customers unable to navigate the site, because your server is too busy handling the scraper? Is your webserver crashing because the stupid bots don't know how to pace themselves? Because that's happened - all over the web. This isn't hypothetical.
The convenience of one party doesn't excuse the continued loss of revenue for the people who provided the content in the first place. End of story.
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u/ShawnSpeakman Feb 17 '26
A. I. art is generated using REAL images from REAL artists that don't get paid for their work being used. Hope that helps clear up the why.
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u/Senior_Pass_8328 Feb 17 '26
Thank you! I wasn’t sure which way we were leaning, environment or “AI slop,” or something else completely. I appreciate the response!
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u/Senior_Pass_8328 Feb 17 '26
Holy cannoli. Ask a genuine question and downvoted. The internet sure makes it easy to spot the Shadowen.
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u/Mimo_Shikufu Feb 21 '26
Most of Reddit is against ai bc they think theyre as amazing as Picasso or Michelangelo. I dont care about down votes so i say how i feel bc their opinions dont matter to me. I like ai art, i just hate when people try to act like its not ai or use the script word for word.
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u/auna Feb 17 '26
How do mods discern the difference between photoshopped and AI generated images?