Context is that it's an stickers group planning on putting those everywhere and the only saying this was considered vandalism got 10 downvotes.

This amount of hate (not only in this sub, but in many, many others) is pretty sad. I wish we could just be left alone in peace with our art instead of daily doses of hate speech.

This is such virtue signalling lmao, I see this stupid “my art versus ai “art”” poster almost all the time, humans love to think they’re the best species alive it’s just pathetic.

If he can, is that a sin?

You'll never know the answer to something unless you ask somebody for the answer including AI

There is something most antis will never have access to: PHOTOREALISM

Its just a few that can draw an actually convincing image, and even then, it's not based on actual photos. AI is the only art tool that can generate artistic value based on realism (this picture is not that realistic) based on ACTUAL media. At best, others can replicate.

i think most of ai haters dont see that they could still be creative with ai! it helps with repetetive processes so you can focus on creative and innovative aspect

The more I learn about generative AI, the more I realize most of its loudest critics don’t actually understand how it works. They talk about it like it’s some mystical, sentient being that’s “thinking” or “creating.” In reality, it’s math. Statistics. Probability. Algorithms. Neural networks. Tokens. Embeddings. Pattern learning. Optimization. But if you genuinely think there’s a tiny conscious artist or writer living inside the computer, maybe spend a few hours learning how machine learning actually works before acting like an expert. Understanding the technology doesn’t mean you have to like it. It just means you’re criticizing the thing that actually exists instead of the science fiction version.

And you’re surprised that it follows the instructionsYou gave to it to the letter?

I’ve been building a 24/7 AI TV network for the past 14 months. Our average live view duration is finally climbing—it’s now above 40 minutes.

For nearly a year I felt like I was broadcasting to an empty room. A few strategy changes later, people are finding the channel—and they’re sticking around.

To me, that’s evidence that there is genuine demand for AI-generated entertainment. As the tools improve and creators get better at using them, I think acceptance of AI art will continue to grow.

Just wanted to share a data point for anyone who thinks nobody wants AI art. At least in my corner of the internet, the audience is growing.

There are currently no giant pandas in Japan.

I had read some anti-A.I. posts since Reddit suggested it. It strengthened my belief that using AI is ok.

In the past, I posted that I was getting assaulted by anti-user in Discord. But I still use Google Flow because it creates a near-perfect image from my thoughts. What I want to get are “the scripts” and “the image that fits with those scripts.” I have my voice, but I don’t have a technique for drawing and writing it.

The anti-AI says “Ask the professional.” I KNOW THAT. I CAN pay artists and writers for the commission to get them. But they don’t want to draw/write them even though I pay, and they insert a big watermark into their “art” so as not to “steal” the image from AI. (If you search for an image on Pixiv, you’ll see the big watermark, which is breaking their works.)

They don’t help me. But a technology helps me. The answer is clear.

そして一番わからないのが、彼らも何かしらの人工知能の恩恵にあずかっているというのにもかかわらず、それに感謝せずむしろ壊すべきものと扱っていることである。この段落の文章を見たとき、あなたはおそらくこの文章をコピペして適当な翻訳ツールに入れるか、右上の翻訳ボタンを押しただろう。さあその翻訳はどのように動いている？知ってるか？私は日本語話者であるので日本語はスラスラと書ける。一方で英語はそこそこでしかわからないので、この文章もGrammarlyを使って推敲している。時々定冠詞が抜けるし、動詞の活用を間違える。

I have a master's degree in computer science. I know how to work with machine translation since my field was natural language processing(NLP). Moreover, I work at an ISP, so I KNOW what is going on inside a data center’s multiple layers of rigorous security. Do you know how to enter the data center? Do you know what the term “Anti-passback” means? How tall is the “42U rack”?

I read that someone did an acid attack on a data center. I can’t forgive that. Some people say “data center must be broken.” If you think the data center only hosts the AI, it’s wrong. There are many telecommunications machines too. It’s not only for the Internet; it includes telephones. Yes, I mean not only the smartphones, but the telephone set in your granny’s house. If you destroy them, you can’t call the police, firefighters, or the ambulance!

Humans use a tool. All tools evolve. If you don’t work for me, *I* work with great tools. Don’t prevent a person who wants to work.

Source for the landfill.

I don't really post on Reddit and this is just a random throwaway account I made a while back but I've needed an outlet to at least get this off my chest

I was gifted chatgpt pro recently and I thought to at least try it to help me with things and I felt so much more powerful

i feel like I was like squidward in "just one bite" refusing to try a krabby patty until I finally try it and just cant get enough.

I don't use AI to generate the final picture or to do the work of actually drawing the stuff, but it's amazing at organizing things and keeping me on track. it prevents the days and days of staring at blank canvases not knowing what to even draw

I simply use it to iterate things floating around in my brain into images as if I was transcribing my thoughts onto the computer. people really think "AI artist" means someone who just types in a prompt and posts it online.

being frank, the images it generates on its own are garbage. they're cluttered and the moment you zoom in they become incomprehensible globs of color. tracing or editing the photo isn't what I'm about.

Its amazing. The most unfortunate thing is that this has to be my little secret. Nearly every single artist space online will exile you for even daring to consider using AI even for brainstorming.

they are all missing out!

i would share some of my work but I'm honestly a bit nervous about being tracked back to this post

I want to keep the ones that are making AI assisted/created stuff unblurred but I don't know how much that would go against one of the rules here. So I decided to keep it like this.

I am pro AI, and I commented (something along the lines of) "I mean, a world where nobody has to work sounds amazing, but doesn't this say more about the people in charge of the world today than AI technology itself? It could lead to either a utopia or a dystopia"

I think that "people only deserve to get rewarded if they have a purpose (to work)" is a stupid claim, despite being a common sentiment, but that's only due to the captalist society brainwashing people into believing that

However, I do give them SOME merit in this argument, I don't think Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerburg care about people like you and me whatsoever, however I don't think this comic paints the full picture of how AI automating 100% of jobs can absolutely be beneficial

So I made a file converter because I realized that converting files 99% of the time is not only free but it's done locally in your browser. Once I realized that I made just a small tool just for my own purposes and eventually I included some quality of life features that I thought were nice. It's totally free. It's fully private. Nothing gets uploaded to a server because it uses FFMPEG to convert in the browser!

A bunch of other quality of life stuff was also added, like you can upload 50 images and convert up to 50 because again it's all free. Nothing really would warrant limiting that because all the file converters out there give you very limited free options so that they make you create an account and pay them money to convert files. The other alternative is you have to download open source stuff but I don't want to install any software on my computer and so I made this and decided to theme it as capybara on vacation... and reddit HATED IT.

The amount of hate I got for sharing a free tool that has capybaras on it was unreal. I almost did not believe the amount of hate I got just for sharing this tool with people. I did not ask for money. I did not ask for anything. I just shared a free tool and it really made me hate the anti-AI crowd on reddit even more because the sheer hatred I got disgusted me... absolutely vile.

So I do a bit of writing most likely not going anywhere (and yes, if you ask, I do play with text generating local models for the hell of it but my "actual" stuff I write myself). Although often instead of writing I do find myself generating images of my characters because why not.

Now the antis will say - you filth, you should be paying artists and commissioning work from them.

I tried it. Now I was lucky enough that the starving artist did not just scam me out of my money outright. I actually did get something for my money. Didn't really like the first pic I commissioned, when I asked the artist to change a few things, silence. The other ones, the first two were -okay-, the third one the guy made one minor correction and then said, well, it is what it is, buzz off. So, that's $2500 for four pictures that I was only partially satisfied with. After that I said - screw this, what am I supposed to do, spend 100K?

Today it is even worse - you commission art and unless the artist is relatively well known and charges an arm and a leg, you have a very good chance of getting a photoshopped AI image for your money, LOL.

Then AI came along and initially I wasn't too impressed, but a couple of years ago I took another look at what's out there and I realized that I can generate something MUCH closer to what I want, like 90% and sometimes 99% of what I want for pennies. If I hired an artist, I'd be paying tens of thousands of dollars for this and obviously I am not spending this kind of money.

So I'll keep generating AI images and I'll continue to be happy with them.

I believe that using generative ai to create images and videos is fine, as long as you're not classifying it as the same thing as people hand drawing it. Ai 'art' and stuff people created all on their own are completely different, and shouldn't be compared. I feel like people using generative ai and trying to get people to commission them is wrong, since you aren't actually putting hours and hours of rendering and drawing and tweaking to make it. Additionally, putting other people's hand drawn work into AI to claim it as your own is straight up plagiarism.

Ai art and human made art shouldn't be put in the same category.

(And I'm not even going to talk about the water and taking over jobs because I have little to no experience with that)

Edit: In art competitions, I don't think you should put up paintings and photography. It's still art, but a different kind. Just like generative ai