My Discord didn't knew about this, and neither did i a couple weeks ago. So in case you don't know:
E621 accept GenAI.
I already plan on not posting on it next year, and may even DNP myself. If you are an artist, probably do the same.
E621 accept GenAI.
I already plan on not posting on it next year, and may even DNP myself. If you are an artist, probably do the same.
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It does require a lot of data to even remotely work.
OpenAI admitted they can't function without data scrapping, which is theft as it is taking work from other people without pay or even consent.
If someone use GenAI, any amount, they are either in the dark or scum.
2. GenAI literally need data scrapping to even exist.
3. "It's not ALL shit in this cake, so eat it".
And no, it doesn't have it's "own artstyle", it's a soup of all the data it got fed since the beginning, and it will always have begun as theft.
Probably some others too.
"Exceptions are currently for backgrounds (treated like using a photo as a background, quality rules apply); for artwork that references, but does not directly use, AI generated content; for full paintovers; and for audio in WebM posts."
I think it's more problematic that glazed/misted images have to be tagged which allows third parties to easily steal art
And FurAffinity just implemented a way to blacklist tags, so i guess they are trying to improve it.
Some of those might be false tags, but definitely not all of them.
There's probably more AI in this website.
If they don't care about artists, neither should we.
If that's too much for you it's perfectly fine to leave but asking others to boycott it feels excessive.
If people are allowed to shit on the floor, it doesn't matter how much of it there is.
E6 is. And if they don't respect artists, there is no reason to respect it, or use it.
Not a complex concept.
The furry fandom is a creative community and AI is an antithetical, existential threat to it.
But apparently not, the tags are there, and it might have been at least for a few months? A year?
e621 is abhorrent for a lot of reasons.
But pro-GenAI and Transphobic would not surprise me.
Hiding the shattered pieces doesn't make the vase whole again.
Also e621 doesn't accept everything. It does accept too much though, but that's another debate.
That being said I'd still prefer if ALL ai gen stuff was banned, full stop. I don't like giving any inches to these grifters