no but fr scammers adore this tech and have been flooding etsy with fake gen photo's that are nothing like what they make so if you see generative pics over there you can assume its a scam
Cheap, scammy, and a horrible eye for detail. Started checking wall art from sellers I was considering buying furniture from, if they fail to notice 3 winged and 3 legged birds, what else are they just throwing in their shop?!
Absolutely agree. I also think it's important to instill a distaste for AI art in future generations since they'll be exposed to so much of it.
It wasn't a hard concept for my kids to grasp: people with computers are stealing original artwork instead of putting in the effort to do it themselves.
Yup, in the Heavy Metal world it's bad mojo if you use AI on your album cover, in the same way that getting a lovers name tattooed on you pretty much curses the relationship.
Recently a restaurant opened in my city and they were using AI pictures for decoration... Before I saw that I considered eating there but instead walked away and ate in another place
Sophisticated enough is a joke when you realize only way for it to make stuff like a human is to think on its own and feel on its own, and then what would that mean to keep a concious being locked in a digital prison with thought but no outlet outside of it's art
Honestly this is the upside of AI being so easy that the bot scam places use it to flood search engines: it just triggers suspicion in normal folk who have no horse in the race.
this is so true. i had to take a ChatGPT course and one of the lessons was on how a guy wanted to market his product. He generated all the images, text, and "science" and the entire time, all I could think was "this product doesn't exist, why would someone bother"
Actually, it's really easy to tell fake products now because of AI. Used to be good Photoshop skills but the lighting was off as the tell. Or an obvious copy/paste image into environment. Now it's, "these geode cups are so coo--wait a minute. AI? Definitely fake cups" XD
Bruh, just use literally thousands of princess images. It won't be that hard to get one. Seriously, using ai gen for anything just because you don't have art for it is not an excuse. It's pathetic, just say that you just wanted, don't give lame excuses for things you didn't need to do.
Yes but it's very hard to find photo's of princess Belle in the style that I wanted (Which was anime) They're all AI generated except this one. I plan on commissioning an artist next month though.
can't you just find one on Pinterest?
Ai art is gross, its better to use a real artist's art than feed into ai gen.
You're either for or against ai gen images.
Preferably I'd pay an artist but I don't really have the funds for that. As for finding a photo off Pinterest I couldn't find a photo of Belle in the style I wanted... But I get your point.
And pay for artists isn't getting any higher if people keep feeding into ai to generate "art", stealing many artworks and jobs in the process. It'd be so much better for you to find a different pfp that was human made. Theres lots out there
Now I can make the free game I’ve always wanted to make!
Fuck you poor person for not paying a bunch of money to someone else!
Kinda this image under another context as a potential interpretation.
Assuming it also applies to Indie folks making free games.
AI should free us from mundane tasks so we can focus on what truly matters, channeling our creativity into fields that inspire us. AI-generated art crosses a line. What’s the point of being creative if some robot is going to ‘do it for me’ :/
Don't get me wrong - I'm much on the level with you when it comes to AI.
But I personally think it's only safe when the images they try to generate are so obviously-flawed you can tell what the problems are and can laugh at how those nipples got there. XD
Besides, it’s a bit difficult for AI to replicate things like storytelling specific drawings or animations…so when they try the results are so unhinged
Not at all surprised; At this point I wouldn't be fazed if we get new music videos starring AI Michael Jackson. And his 'Black or White' video confuses the system into turning him green! Guess that makes me a hueist now? This planet is so cute at times! XD
i recently found a blog article related to a problem i had, which had an AI generated pic at the top, so I assumed the whole article was AI. but after a quick glance i saw that the text was human written and solved my problem
100% this! A.I self generated art in particular will be considered worthless, anyone who is actually talented will never be short of work there is alway value in good man made works
Hell yeah! I think the same thing about Disney since they started using AI. Oh, wait! I thought the same about Disney when they did not pay their artist enough. So, yeah. F the D.
I see it as kinda the same way spam emails are often riddled with errors. If you’re smart to recognize the scam, you’re not the target audience to fall for it anyway
i hate what ai image generation has become. i absolutely adore the tech behind it, but its becoming such a scummily used thing that i really dont like anymore
no fr I never really liked the polished "corporates" look of AI art anyways. It simply doesn't look good to me so I don't really like companies that use AI art it looks cheap and tacky.
I recently decided not to purchase a product because they used AI to generate the product image. I know the company and have ordered from them in the past, but made a bad decision not to take product photos so people can actually see the product. (I was ordering a martial arts uniform)
I saw a "fall festival experience" poster go up on a street corner where an empty lot used to be. It was AI-generated slop, so I just assumed it would be an experience similar to the willy wonka disaster. Never did see anyone even mention it in-town
So one of the new veterinary products that our reps have come to talk about has this little in clinic ad/info sheet that is ALL AI generated images in the background and it skeeves me out
There’s one of those “if you or a loved one have been effected by asbestos” commercials on the channel in the break room at work that is clearly AI.
And it’s not even the good new AI.
It’s the old slow moving obviously AI, AI.
Genuienlyyyy. If someone uses ai art it's immediately apparent the lack of respect you have for art in general, prompting the follow-up of, what else do you not respect? And why should I respect you?
Ai Art nowadays look tacky and cheap (probably from it sometimes being fed it's own data)..
You can look at a advertisement with ai art on it and you immediately feel that something is off
Maybe the biggest problem with AI art from a marketing standpoint, not to downplay Aaaall the other problems with it, is that the point of marketing is to make your product STAND OUT
AI Art functionally all feels the same - it doesn't differentiate your product - if it even accurately depicts it
I remember saying more people should be able to buy Queen’s Blade season one and two legally. The guy I was talking to said they should replace the dub cast with AI. I wanted so badly to tell that guy to f*** off.
This is true: BUT, the average consumer DNGAF. Corporations just want “good enough, and visually safe” - art is anathema to business.
(How do I know? I’m a graphic designer who works for a large corporation, and trying desperately to retrain out of the field, since it’s gonna be dead soon. )
I can spot AI art of drawings of any stylized stuff but not realism.
I actually feel morally better to just 'modify' my pieces to screw their trained bots with some kind of AI poisoning like Nightshade and Glaze. even as little as 100 pieces gives a neat result. That's my best definition of trying.
The images are too small to tell. Also, don’t give data to Google. Do not click on the images. Do not work for free for any reason, but especially not to train AI
if the captha has multiple images, no more than 3. if fading, no more than 4. if mosaic, no more than 4 tiles. if it looks like it can be a false positive, probably mark it.
This is an interesting problem. When AI is so good, you can't spot the difference.
Luckily, I have no moral quandary in letting AI reveal AI.
Although I guess it will be more important for artists to show their process, to keep proof of their authenticity.
But I guess, if people look at the creative process for authenticity, they could just train an AI to fake that too. Huh. The problem/rabbit hole goes deeper.
Nah, It Will never understand actualy composition or what it's doing, when we can't tell the difference It means you can easily track down Who It stole from, seeing a well made character means you'll find an identical One made by an actual artist
it's certainly likely, practically every website and their cousin are using their users to train their AI model. really shady stuff tbh
at least this way you can train yourself
thats REALLY ironic that google, the same people who promoted AI in a super-bowl commercial (which I disagree with entirely), are also telling people to spot the AI-generated image.
Feel like they're just stealing data to use for something but Idk.
💯 agreed
take these companies' words with a grain of salt and assume everything when your data is being used
that being said, this game was created by actual artists in residence at Google; Caroline Buttet and Emmanuel Durgoni
I remember bringing this up for that one sewing book being sold on the tiktok shop and people were crying at me they can't afford art meanwhile they just had an ad gifting a child a sewing machine.
Something I had a discussion about with a person on the internet at some point, but I'd (hate) like to believe the only reason AI is stirring in companies is to assure that artists and musicians and all that sort are blocked off from potentially providing wealthy lives.
Like artists who've become drastically successful and changed wealth classes from all of their work. Another thing to tie behind a rope and gate off any way to get there.
Me and my person were literally talking about this yesterday. Product can be good and not scammy but we wouldn't buy from the company because it just gives them do not trust vibes.
It already is. Just sometimes people can't tell it's AI at first glance which is what companies are trying to get into. AI is getting more fine tuned each day unfortunately
I really hope this AI business is just a trend that fades away soon. The folks in the art community struggle enough as is without these chimera monstrosities of stolen imagery making things worse.
it's funny, with AI being rightfully hated, the old days of pre-generated assets seem quant, because you know at least a real human was paid to make those pre-generated assets.
I believe one of my friends had a pretty good comment on that.
"Everyone can use AI, that just let's the product look replaceable by something cheaper. But if they pay an artist to make sure that it look good, it looks like it is worth my money"
i've given up on and avoid products i genuinely liked over this. cause yeah, if you can't put the effort into making an ad, how can i be sure you're gonna put effort into quality of the product
AI is the new infinite scroll website the length of a small book, trying to sales pitch you some sh*t supplement that will cure your skin wrinkles or make you study better with a giant "buy it now" png at the bottom and testimonials from fake people
I've already started. Went to the movies and one of the ads before the movie started was for a mechanic here in town, using AI-generated footage and an AI voiceover for the ad.
Left'em a review talking about how I wouldn't trust anyone who skimps out and uses AI for their ads to work on my car,
cause who knows what else the skimp out on and I wouldn't risk them taking shortcuts repairing the vehicle I require for getting places.
Next thing I know they're getting all sorts of other reviews echoing mine, and apparently they DO skimp out on repairs. Fuck AI and the folks who use it.
Have noticed AI used in a lot of crochet pattern imagery and for covers of what are probably rip-off style “craft instruction” books at lower prices, often with poor reviews.
This isn’t even “normalize this”. It IS this.
Not even in a “too cheap to buy artists’ works” sorta way but in a “they jump both feet first with no planning and just StabDiff’d some random BS ‘trying’ to make it ‘official’.” sorta thing.
This is literally my reaction when I see AI Art. If you can't even afford an artist why should I even bother with the product? It probably terrible made anyway.
At least within tech crowds this seems like a more and more common reaction. Witnessed it during a presentation recently. The presentor used clearly ai generated images on multiple slides and because of that the rest if the presentation fell to mostly deaf ears as everyone discussed the bad images.
problem is, its getting hard to tell.. I backed a board game called Dragon Eclipse.. didn't find out till months later that it was AI Generated images.. makes sense they now had special artist renders of some of the art as add-ons
I’ve noticed that the latest books from an author I enjoy seem to have a cover created by AI. That weird almost hallucinatory art. I haven’t felt inclined to buy them.
if it's not already normalised then it SHOULD be. pirated carx street and that game looked so impoverished just from the use of ai art and ai voices alone
If only people (boomers, and people of similar age) could tell on a glance.. not to speak of it becoming increasingly hard to differentiate between AI and not
Quick question about this. I’m looking to start generating some income with my creations for TTRPGs (stories, NPCs, quests, one-shots, etc.). Would using AI for free visualizations of places and character descriptions put me at any risk? Or would you prefer to receive high-quality text-only content?
If you need placeholders for any type of projects that you will eventually swap for dedicated visuals, personally I believe your best bet is to enable for the usage rigths tool on the google search bar, disable some keywords, and go from there
That is kinda good suggestion. People like images and doing text-only would be bad for PR (at least I think so). Con of it would that I don't have tailored images like AI could make.
Now I am thinking that maybe I should look for some artists which would make things for exposure 🤔
Just got better idea. I can use Inkarnate, which I use already for battle maps, to make landscapes visualization. More work, but then I can sign myself under all of the content 🥳
Reminder: Magic the Gathering was caught using AI and lied about it, then later apologized and blamed the artists.
Wizards of the Coast and D&D, same thing.
Starfield guns were AI designed
Loki s2 used an AI poster
Can't deny that right now artists can provide better quality for a higher price, but that won't change that AI is improving quickly and will eventually replace those artists by providing good quality for a lower price.
Not really prices of AI go up, but remember it is only here due to speculators and investors, and when they back out who will pay for it, beside art isn't just about what you see, it is a method of communication, expression, and ultimately something humans actually thought about, AI can't think
Yes! AI has uses for IT and systems operations that it’s really really good at, and even Data Security, Email Spam/Phishing filtering, etc. That’s where it belongs. Not making “art”.
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So what do you do then, if the mass majority can't tell that AI is AI?
It wasn't a hard concept for my kids to grasp: people with computers are stealing original artwork instead of putting in the effort to do it themselves.
@kanicandraw.bsky.social
@lyontothepast.bsky.social
Company not willing to have someone voice the ad? Must be shit and they dont want their reputation tainted-AI THAT SHIT
Ai art is gross, its better to use a real artist's art than feed into ai gen.
You're either for or against ai gen images.
you did the right thing ≽^•⩊•^≼
like, what is stopping you from just using images you find online that aren't ai?
like, those aren't the only two options?
I don't get it...
like, you act like those are the only two options.
Yet the Strangehollow 5e module by @artbyemilyhare.bsky.social didn't get the attention it deserved.
Fuck you poor person for not paying a bunch of money to someone else!
Kinda this image under another context as a potential interpretation.
Assuming it also applies to Indie folks making free games.
Small companies without an established revenue stream will be the only ones hurt by this.
It's not AI vs. artists.
It's artists who use AI tools as part of their workflow vs. artists who don't.
In commercial art, new industry standards will coalesce around the former.
Probably a hot take.
Mostly shared the meme because I thought it was fitting but you aren’t wrong
But I personally think it's only safe when the images they try to generate are so obviously-flawed you can tell what the problems are and can laugh at how those nipples got there. XD
Besides, it’s a bit difficult for AI to replicate things like storytelling specific drawings or animations…so when they try the results are so unhinged
Did you know they made an AI Batman comic?
Like if you clearly didn’t put any effort into the cover, why should I expect the music to be any different
i recently found a blog article related to a problem i had, which had an AI generated pic at the top, so I assumed the whole article was AI. but after a quick glance i saw that the text was human written and solved my problem
even a generic stock photo is way better
3D2Y!!!
For some reason cryptobros do that.
Heck some AIs are even for free so even less sense.
Why aren't we getting paid for typing these comments? It is the same effort 😭
And it’s not even the good new AI.
It’s the old slow moving obviously AI, AI.
You can look at a advertisement with ai art on it and you immediately feel that something is off
Rushed mood today
AI Art functionally all feels the same - it doesn't differentiate your product - if it even accurately depicts it
(How do I know? I’m a graphic designer who works for a large corporation, and trying desperately to retrain out of the field, since it’s gonna be dead soon. )
https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fartsandculture.google.com%2Fexperiment%2Fodd-one-out%2FwAHNn4JsVTFOiw%3Fhl%3Den&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl1%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
I think i beat it.
I think I to often take things for granted that I see only and that is not good
What's important is that you're trying!
I actually feel morally better to just 'modify' my pieces to screw their trained bots with some kind of AI poisoning like Nightshade and Glaze. even as little as 100 pieces gives a neat result. That's my best definition of trying.
I didn't even login to my google acc nor have phone connected to it (using GrapheneOS).
alternatively, there's extensions to skip the captha.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/
Luckily, I have no moral quandary in letting AI reveal AI.
Although I guess it will be more important for artists to show their process, to keep proof of their authenticity.
https://paintsundo.com/
I wonder how it would perform trying to deconstruct an AI picture? Either no difference or garbled.
AI will NEVER understand like artists do
at least this way you can train yourself
Feel like they're just stealing data to use for something but Idk.
take these companies' words with a grain of salt and assume everything when your data is being used
that being said, this game was created by actual artists in residence at Google; Caroline Buttet and Emmanuel Durgoni
Original artist here; https://x.com/MojoboJomo/status/1853552528035926110
"Everyone can use AI, that just let's the product look replaceable by something cheaper. But if they pay an artist to make sure that it look good, it looks like it is worth my money"
Sadly, most people are not extremely online.
@Mojobojomo on twitter
Left'em a review talking about how I wouldn't trust anyone who skimps out and uses AI for their ads to work on my car,
Next thing I know they're getting all sorts of other reviews echoing mine, and apparently they DO skimp out on repairs. Fuck AI and the folks who use it.
As much as I enjoy it for personal shenanigans, there's no place for AI in products, ads or any other commercial stuff.
you are standing on the Maginot line with crossbows waiting for the Panzers
Not even in a “too cheap to buy artists’ works” sorta way but in a “they jump both feet first with no planning and just StabDiff’d some random BS ‘trying’ to make it ‘official’.” sorta thing.
Now I am thinking that maybe I should look for some artists which would make things for exposure 🤔
One of them is for a (I think vegan) restaurant and it looks so shoddy
Wizards of the Coast and D&D, same thing.
Starfield guns were AI designed
Loki s2 used an AI poster
I walked out a burger place because they had a whole wall plastered in it
That’s always my reaction to seeing AI imagery