I am genuinely trying to get better at art. I’m not there yet (likely never will be), the lying machine is still better than me.
The context:
This is my sketch.
And this is what the ai output.
I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it. I know there are people who will tell me that I’m terrible for using ai at all. I’m also sorry if this is the wrong community to ask this question (ask reddit would delete my post instantly if I tried to post there).
Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that’s my skillset. So if I were to use the ai upscaled version for my book, well, I’m asking for opinions.
An artist’s work is copied without asking or compensating them and then sold as a product.
It’s like piracy, except instead of individuals pirating a corporation’s content (which they can’t actually buy anymore) for their private use, it’s corporations pirating an individual’s content to sell it for profit and drive the individual artist out of the market.
So I’d disagree. The images themselves aren’t stolen, but the money that can be made off of them is.
What about self hosted AI image generators or companies who pay royalties to artists for units sold?
I think you have created complicated rules for “piracy I enjoy/condone is good. Copying that I don’t like is bad.”
I don’t see there being a lot of room for to ever defend piracy and also hate AI influenced art
This is all of life. Yes, good things are good, and bad things are bad.
It is not curious or interesting that I dislike murder but support Ukraine fighting back Russia.