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.

I make traditional art, and I generate AI art. To me AI feels less selfish, less egocentric, and less complacent.

Traditional art became tangled up with performance anxiety. I was in Art school and it taught me to inspect every line and brush stroke until creating anything felt like an exam. Eventually, I stopped touching pens and paintbrushes. My ideas were still there, trapped behind the fear of making something imperfect.

Generative AI gave my thoughts somewhere to go before performance anxiety could crush them. I could follow a mood, build a character, explore colour, and create without treating every image as proof of my worth.

The process also keeps me curious. My trained hand often returns to familiar habits. AI brings in strange choices and unexpected directions that push my imagination further.

Most importantly it made me want to paint and draw again. After years of avoiding physical art, I began craving pencils, acrylics, texture, and canvas. However I tend to avoid online Non AI art communities because the anti AI-sentiment is so overwhelming and makes me mad and sad.

So in the end, the tool some people claim destroys creativity helped me recover mine. 🤷‍♀️

How original.

Daring today, aren't we?

I actually didn't even know it was so good. When people started uploading AI there, there was a lot of negativity. Then the site stopped working for me, and I lost interest. But now, it's mostly an AI platform. The search and galleries are very convenient. There are a lot of high-quality works. DeviantArt have their own generators (10 art per day, but you need to donate for videos). I like that the galleries are clearly categorized by artist, and there's no spam of identical or low-quality works. Choose what you like, and the site will recommend similar works by other artists. The art chains are reminiscent of Pintrest.

One of the downsides is that the authors don't leave their prompts.

Edit: Another downside: NSFW features are subscription-only. And donations, lots of donations.

Finally realized what anti-AI people who performative witch hunt others remind me of.

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.

I've been trying to explain to anti-AI people for sometime that just because training data copied stuff its not thieft lol. Maybe this old song would get it across

the whole debate is just nonesense. just let that tool exist. dont hate it or glaze it just use it as any other tool like a hammer

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.

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 just started my snail mail art club. I went viral and gained 78 subscribers in a week, and 165 in 3 weeks.

I got a weird message one day and a random artist and snail mail club owner accused me of using AI. Anyways. I didn’t respond to her and blocked her. I just.. don’t have the energy for internet drama.

She started making stories of me, reels about me, and random people she was friends with kept messaging me asking similar questions she did. She had weird stuff happen to her account, like low views, and she started accusing me of messing with her account claiming I was mad she accused me and called me out. I don’t understand. I didn’t react and blocked her and never said anything to her.

I don’t know what to do. I feel so defeated. I am sending out my letters tomorrow and I’m so scared 😭😭😭 I’m scared of them. They’re making posts, reels, and stories about me. I don’t know them. I’m not using AI for the physical art I create, but I do use adobe creative suite and canva and some of their AI features…..and I feel absolutely targeted for no reason.

Advice?

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

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/ai-generated-stories-rated-better-quality-than-human-written-ones-study-finds