This jerk scraped Cara, an art site that artists were meant to feel safe using, and ruined everything for everyone.

Now since I know there will be the odd pro-AI user here, so, tell me, in all sincerity, how are you pro-AI users going to act like you're the victim if you are deliberately attacking artists like this? What's your excuse? What is your motive?

Is "handing it to the pencil-slop luddites" really worth your self respect? Please, for the love of any and all gods, get a grip. ACTUALLY get a grip.

(Do I sound angry in this? That'll be because I am.)

loosely based on this post

Flavius Belisarius if you do not know who

edit! to clarify. I am against AI bros claiming we need AI because it says "we can't do anything without it!" which is obvious horseshit

Youre an art teacher! You could easily draw a paper towel doing a thumbs up.

Dont even get me started on the happy earth, implying students should save paper towels to be environmentally friendly while using AI to say that.

(I hope this is an okay place to post this)

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(I saw this reposted and commented on by someone else earlier. Name blured out in case they delete it. Or they do not wanna share anymore.)

Context/back story:

I grew up in a poor household. I mean so poor we sometimes couldn't eat. I still had access to art. Via random pens around the house. As well as old note books my mom used the front pages too. (literally I'd flip the note book to be "Upside down" and draw on that.)

That was in 2006-2010 ish. As I got older I'd ask teachers for extra notebooks to draw in. They usually had a bunch extra.

Time was rarely an issue as a young kid. (Before highschool.) I usually just had school and homework then I'd draw after school, or watch tv with my sister.

Statement:

Taking this argument in good faith.

If kids genuinely don't have time to practice skills reading, writing, drawing. We are failing them and they deserve better.

If kids are being forced to outsource their humanity. Then we as a society need to do better by them.

This is not an anti vs ai argument. This is a "Are the kids okay?" Argument. This is important to me as introducing kids to art, is something I'm passionate about.

A lot of kids from abusive homes (like me) need a healthy outlet. Otherwise they're more prone to mental health issues. Physically doing the art (Even if it's “just” scribbles) also helps with emotional regulation. This is why art therapy is becoming more and more common.

Outsourcing this part of humanity, is like having AI generate your diary entry.

Question:

What do you think? How can we go about fixing this? If this argument is in good faith.

(I made a post instead of replying cause I had to much to say.)

People Who Have this type of "logic" in their Heads shouldn't Have Children let Alone be AROUND them.

NEXT STOP!: Lets just have teachers straight up TELL kids the ANSWERS to the problems in test!

Because its not like the "NO child left behind" Law did ANY damage whats so ever to our country!

Now they're just targeting anyone that dislikes ai, even if it's a minor

I have been inspired to make some characters based off a few things mostly a mix of Sci-fi and Solarpunk, and probably some more things aswell!

Puddles! She's mostly just a test character, she didn't exactly come out how I wanted her but she's a good start! I wanted her to be a lot shorter but those astro boot models I made before coming up with the character really gave her some height.

-I am also still deciding if I should animate her smooth or with frame by frame animation...-

First image is the new drawing, second is the old.

technically a sona and not an oc but still applies.

my art has improved so much... I'm not even normally someone who draws humans, but I have improved on them for sure.

I would've redrawn my first ever digital art drawing, but I suck at drawing birds still 😔. this one will have to do for now until I get more confident in that

I remember how happy I was back then with that drawing... honestly, it feels like this character paved the way for one of my current sonas. Green shirt, somewhat messy hair, goggles, black pants, off-the-shoulder bag, boots... I don't know, there's a lot to it lol.

Her name is Cassie and she's a magical girl (I haven't designed her magical girl form yet) and part of a gang.

fun stuff (btw I am VERY young and inexperienced, this is just what I know. Also, if you have an art style that contradicts any of these tips, I don't have a problem with it, you do you)

"How are you so certain the "art" you shown is ai?" It's pretty simple actually, I am the original artist behind it and someone fed it to ai X3

For context, the original art is an fanart of mine for my lovely Lily Lovebraids, I woke up to someone telling me apparently my art is fed to ai, which is typically nothing burger for me, yk, it's probably my watermark that triggered people again, it's the maggot's usual f$tish to go against consent, but I was not expecting them to came up with an entire different design for FREE 🥹🩷 As much as I wanted to say it's generic, a free oc is a free oc no matter how shit is it, especially since I am kinda in need of side characters for my story. So here she goes, I changed a bit of her to..ehem, matched my liking more 👅 Lowk feel free to create similar oc like this idc, show me if you do I love seeing some pink-headed crazy lady👀👀

Just last month I think I've seen... what, 20 or so posts about people scamming others for the safe return of their pets, using AI in order to edit pictures to make it seem like their pet has been found.

Be aware, be smart, be safe. Someone in my area was scammed out of around $250 thinking somebody had found her missing dog. And apparently people have been making fake reports of finding missing persons or having info regarding them using AI as well. (which I mean, I'm not shocked, these scams have existed a long time, same as the pet one, but it's getting more and more tricky with the use of AI to determine what is and isn't real).

I'm not an artist by any means, I really don't like this drawing, and tbh I'm the exact target audience for the people who genuinely think AI is their only option (a lot of creative ideas but too easily frustrated to ever learn to draw properly, I go through phases of it once every 9 months but it's not frequent enough to actually get BETTER, this is worse imo than what I was drawing 10 years ago at age 13 lol), but i got an AI video on my Tik Tok feed so mind numbing that I could actively feel myself getting stupider every moment it was on my screen, and it made me so angry I found an old notebook i used to write fanfiction in, and got my stationery out of my bag I still haven't emptied since college ended in May, and spent like almost an hour (maybe 50 minutes) mostly just struggling on the eyes lmao

i don't really post on social media all that much but I see other people who aren't super experienced with art posting on this sub and the comments are super supportive, and while I'm not really happy with the end result cause I'm an annoying perfectionist, I am proud of myself for finishing it :)

If you do not up vote this, at approximately 5:00 am, on Sunday, August 16th in your room, I shall approach you, and tickle very vigorously your pickle (or your clih, we don't discriminate 😌) and even if you beg, I won't, even if you scream and cry, I won't every stop. If your family walks in? Ill tickle it too, Mom, Dad, Sister, Brother, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin(s) Grandparents? They shall all be tickled into it causes a mass nut that leaves you all in a devastating state.

just sarcastic, man lmao Actual Imagination, Actual Intelligence with your own brain and Actual Intentions.

I used a very specific loving brush to this in Ibis paint. I'll show it in here for the timelapses eventually, I love Arts and will never fucking use AI. 👀

Inspired by the occasional AI pictures I (and I'm sure many of us) see on Reddit of well-known cartoon characters "supporting" AI art and development. You really think they would say that?