I have pinterest blocked using a Firefox extension called uBlacklist. Not ideal, but pinterest so polluted any search I made I eventually decided I was better without it.
I just LOVE it when I search for something and a person just filled up the first five pages of searches with ALL the variations of their last two prompts.
Yeah ive just found myself using it less and less now, more than half the results are just slop. Upside is that its forced me to look for inspo straight from fashion designers, photographers etc instead of relying on pinterest
I use sometimes a program called "DesigneDoll" you can pose with a roll(what a shocker I know), but it is really good it has a free version which is good but you save poses and you can Play with folk anatomy(makes legs bigger, arms longer, etc) also you could find some Simple version on internet
i appreciate the recommendation! i’ve been using https://cosmos.so a bit, which has “AI” for search stuff, but also no AI generated images tmk. its a lot more deliberate and artist focused than pinterest.
If you at all have an open mind about this situation, which I'm assuming you don't, the first few minutes alone of this handily debunks most of the claims people against AI constantly make while the rest talks about how it can help boost creativity.
I FUCKING HATE IT. I see art of a character I like, yet it’s a little off, so of course I reverse image search it to see who made it, and it’s FUCKING AI. That’s only on rare occasions, most the time I see ai slop everywhere, and I HATE IT
And whatever isn't AI on there is the same 10 references over and over it feels like 😭 my man(whos also an artist) literally asked how I find all my reference images on Pinterest bc of all that and I'm just like "I have adblock and I dig. I dig super fucking far down."
i made a pinterest board with fantasy characters where i tried to collect art from actual people and is not ai slop. I am not perfect so i might have missed a few ai slop pictures. it has 1k pins so i hope there is sth for everyone: https://de.pinterest.com/NixInora/fantasy-character-design/
I was slightly impressed by AI at first and occasionally see something still that I'm like "whoa that's actually a cool concept, maybe a real artist could remake that one day or something" but 95% of AI stuff is the same generic crap. Plastic shiny skinned anime girls all the way through.
I went looking for clothing references these days on Pinterest and received basically AI and soft porn
I was looking for clothes, not people without them
Why would you even use that platform to begin with? Is it not just Google Images with a feed and the top goal of not letting you find the original source of said images?
It used to be a great place to find DIYs and inspiration but it’s become an ouroboros of plagiarism and slop. Mostly now it just exists to tease you with the knowledge that the tutorial you want did exist at one point.
I used to use Pinterest religiously for writing and tabletop gaming inspiration and mood-setting and it’s practically fucking unusable now because of the AI trash gumming it up. There’s so much ugly soulless horseshit on there now I rarely even try anymore
Me with google. Like I feel weird just getting mad, but I keep reporting AI images for diluting images. Like I just want to look up dated inforkmation but it ended up with a lot of AI spam.
Ublacklist helps but I just can't use Pinterest or deviantart at all.
Amen. Even before AI slop, Pinterest massively poisoned search results. If there at least had been links back to sources, I could have tolerated it, but no. A link to a Pinterest page was a complete dead end. And search results would be jammed with them.
I love saving art to my phone. As of this past weekend there were 12,000 photos on my phone most of them from pinterest. I loved searching through and finding wonderful art. Then AI took over and killed my love of doing that.
The worst part is it is a nightmare to exclude from search results, due to having every URL extension under the sun. Pinterest .com, .co.uk, .fr, .de, .es... and having to exclude them all...
As much as artists depend on Pinterest for refs, there are many artistic refs to be found easily even just here. I'm not even an artist and follow an account who shares various poses.
Pintrest as been my Source for insperation but it's slowly becoming less inspiring for me. I noticed that, It's invested in AI slop and the Moderation is not done with a Human being most of the time! Plus what is annoying is that being flagged for "Adult Content" is not Adult Content it's annoying
It really has gotten terrible. I mean granted, my perusal of it was pretty recent but I used to go there just to look at random stuff all the time and they are making AI images of the most asinine things...
...Like why, oh WHY, is there AI art of woodworking?! Axes even!
Pinterest was always slop. It used to be people reposting other peoples' art with no credit. Even worse is anything on pinterest dominates google search results and it made it near impossible to find the real source of any image on that awful site
I've used Pinterest for the longest time during my art journey and now I can't find good references without being shown AI art within the first 2 minutes of searching.
Its getting so...SO fucking hard to avoid AI trash...tbh, depending on where you are? It feels like we're hunting for human made art in a sea of absolute trash.
And could it please not pollute search engine results so that all searches for neat art and photos have their sources obscured behind a layer of Pinterest (Reddit is also terrible for this).
Anyone who calls the slop ai makes art is disingenuous and has probably never put real effort into trying. I’ve hardly put effort into art but I can still say, it takes serious dedication to make something that looks awesome. Artists FTW!
The only good thing about Pinterest was that it archived some art, that otherwise would've been lost. ...And now it's gonna get lost in the sea of AI slop instead🫠
And deviantart...
Just pixiv have a option for block IA arts, don't block everithing but almost i can see a full page of art whit 1 or 2 ia pics and not full pages of IA pic whit 1 or 2 arts...
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Sorry my autocorrect, corrected it so it sounds like you can but you can't save your progress
here's a few that I usually find myself on
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows
https://artvee.com/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caraproject.app
AI isn't going anywhere. And that's awesome.
Pinterest- Oh you mean AI garbage of the two biggest hobbies you have!? Sure here's your feed of 98% AI!
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Def gud
you don't know where that site's been.
or if they've even used protection.
I was looking for clothes, not people without them
Account was deleted the same day as the meta verse
Ublacklist helps but I just can't use Pinterest or deviantart at all.
pinterest: "gotchu farm" *thousands of uncredited copies*
It was fucking impossible for me to navigate
I actually did a thread on it recently:
https://bsky.app/profile/nickardomccrae.bsky.social/post/3lfskojbcu22f
...Like why, oh WHY, is there AI art of woodworking?! Axes even!
That’s giga annoying and i only hope they will do, at least,“something” with that
Also, who she?:0
It pisses me off so much.
... Now his chapter is spreading fear and terror along the highway.
You have no idea how many times I tried doing reverse image search of a drawing, and fricking Pinterest getting in the way like an uninvited guest.
I literally ended up blocking the website even before AI due to this.
Just pixiv have a option for block IA arts, don't block everithing but almost i can see a full page of art whit 1 or 2 ia pics and not full pages of IA pic whit 1 or 2 arts...