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I keep seeing all these "Say No to AI" posts. So I have decided to weigh in. Art is inherently subjective, but most artists take what they see and make it their own. Drawing, painting, sculpting, or through some other medium replicating aspects of the world around them and interesting idea that they also see other artists create. I know I do it with my own art, all you have to do is look through my gallery to see that my "art" is quite a bit of fan-art. Characters or designs that others have originally made, that I have remade my own.

I view AI art similarly to the invention of the printing press. So many people angry in fear of losing their jobs of painting art, like hand written books were back in the day. They are denying the technological revolution. The printing press made it cheaper and easier for anyone to get a book, and AI Generated Images makes it cheaper and easier for anyone to get art that is close to what they want. It is no way like custom art, it is random chance that they still have to go through hours of reiterations to get what they might want. I have a small gallery on my account where I was simply trying to make a Marvel Venom Symbiote. What I got was some really cool looking monster heads, but none of it was what I was trying to create. There is still a huge place in this world for high quality commissioned and specific art. There is also still the high end market for hand made art that is more expensive. Just because something is cheap doesn't make it wrong for looking good too.

Also, the "stealing" argument seems so weak to me. For example, if you can get an artist to draw a xenomorph touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam are you robbing Michelangelo? or how about Stan Winston Studios which created and designed the xenomorph for the Alien series? I say no. And having a machine try to do the same, likely with lots of weird, abstract designs before it even gets close to anything that might look descent, isn't stealing either.

If you put your art into the world to see, no matter the medium, but especially if it captures the public eye. Then you should expect it to influence others. Inspire them. Even have some imitation/fan-art. That is what AI art really is, cheap fan-art that has a chance of having some descent quality. (A lot like real fan-art that way)

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I keep seeing all these "Say No to AI" posts. So I have decided to weigh in. Art is inherently subjective, but most artists take what they see and make it their own. Drawing, painting, sculpting, or through some other medium replicating aspects of the world around them and interesting idea that they also see other artists create. I know I do it with my own art, all you have to do is look through my gallery to see that my "art" is quite a bit of fan-art. Characters or designs that others have originally made, that I have remade my own.

I view AI art similarly to the invention of the printing press. So many people angry in fear of losing their jobs of painting art, like hand written books were back in the day. They are denying the technological revolution. The printing press made it cheaper and easier for anyone to get a book, and AI Generated Images makes it cheaper and easier for anyone to get art that is close to what they want. It is no way like custom art, it is random chance that they still have to go through hours of reiterations to get what they might want. I have a small gallery on my account where I was simply trying to make a Marvel Venom Symbiote. What I got was some really cool looking monster heads, but none of it was what I was trying to create. There is still a huge place in this world for high quality commissioned and specific art. There is also still the high end market for hand made art that is more expensive. Just because something is cheap doesn't make it wrong for looking good too.

Also, the "stealing" argument seems so weak to me. For example, if you can get an artist to draw a xenomorph touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam are you robbing Michelangelo? or how about Stan Winston Studios which created and designed the xenomorph for the Alien series? I say no. And having a machine try to do the same, likely with lots of weird, abstract designs before it even gets close to anything that might look descent, isn't stealing either.

If you put your art into the world to see, no matter the medium, but especially if it captures the public eye. Then you should expect it to influence others. Inspire them. Even have some imitation/fan-art. That is what AI art really is, cheap fan-art that has a chance of having some descent quality. (A lot like real fan-art that way)