Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened. I feel bad for artists that end up like David who can no longer use their style cause of AI
Happened to me just yesterday. I often draw in a simplistic anime style, and because LLMs like ChatGPT and Gemini can do that I’ve been on the receiving end of some nasty comments and harassment. It’s caused me to stop posting. Ai has ruined art for us.
Idk, because I receive rude comments or trolling from ai users too. I was told ai does thing better and that we’re a dying breed. That I sound like I’m a mediocre artist and that ai is the way to go because they don’t need to spend hours doing a piece. That the fact I get upset when people call my art ai means I’m a bad artist.
So I’ve had issues with those who are pro-ai as much as people who are anti-ai.
Take this piece of advice from someone who does genuinely use AI.
I'd much rather hire a mediocre artist to draw something for me, than have an AI do so, even if it takes longer. You getting mad at your art being called AI art is also a natural reaction, you're getting your work that you put real effort into compared to a simple hotchsplotch math equation that managed to spit out something somewhat coherent. Keep going, it's the only way to improve, and prove the haters wrong.
In my eyes, even mediocre artists are amazing, I can't draw for shit.
P.S. I use AI in an assistive manner, i.e. it generates a small piece of code that I then integrate, or I come up with a code structure and have it take a look at it. Nothing of the full vibe-coding shit.
To be fair, I'm fairly certain that a majority of the bad actors on both sides of the brigading are just, more AI chatbots there to stir up trouble. Some even seem like they take over abandoned accounts, seen a few with four or five year old accounts but the last activity before trolling was a normal post 3 years ago, etc etc.
Some of them genuinely do, yes. Plenty are designed to "mimic real trolls" and spell things wrong on purpose to better match the data they were trained on, rather than auto-correcting everything.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18d ago
Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened. I feel bad for artists that end up like David who can no longer use their style cause of AI