Hey,look Ma I Made It

June:

And year to date:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64547557/chapters/165772018

Absolutely. The reason I say AI is plagiarism is because it is taking information, in this case visual information: drawing style, color choice, ect., and shoving it all together in an amalgamation of something "new". The defining factor is that a i art creates something that is not actually new. When a human being starts creating art they start with a blank canvas. AI is not starting with a blank canvas It is starting with an art that it grabbed off line and taking pieces of another art and smushing them together. And since we know that things that were fed to the AI were not said with permission of the original artist that would make it plagiarism. In my opinion.

I don't think that there's a problem with using anything for a reference. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing a redraw because that is a reference. In artist communities a redraw is practice. It is declared and therefore not plagiarism. It is especially not plagiarism if the original art is shown and cited alongside my own. That said, it would absolutely be plagiarism for me to do a redraw, not declare that my artwork is a redraw, and try to pass it off as if it was my own original idea.

Having said that I don't think there's a problem with using anything as a reference, I still would not generate something for a reference. I would rather find stock images and manipulate them or use a reference builder and build one from scratch then have AI generate one for me. A part of being an artist and creating art is the time, energy, and dedication put into bettering your craft. AI does not do that. It skips the step of honing its practice and pulls from art created by people who have spent thousands of hours, years or maybe even decades working toward their specific artistic end goal. And then without siting any of those artists turns out a product it calls new.

I think that there's no issue using AI art as a reference if you found it. But I would never, and I would highly discourage anybody else from generating a reference using AI. There is currently no ethical way to use generative AI. Maybe one day if we can make data centers that are not destroying communities and eliminating drinkable water, And if we can have an AI that was trained off of volunteered/purchased work, maybe. And that's a big maybe.

And you're totally right I'm not making money off of my fan art. I don't sell it. I don't sell any of it. It grinds my gears when somebody says that it's morally incorrect to redraw the AI art but they have nothing to say about the redrawing of screen caps or other images I have found. I've done numerous redraws/ych, And nobody had any problems until I redrew the AI art. And to be clear only one person had a problem and it struck me as odd because she is a librarian who openly speaks out against the use of AI.

I wouldn't personally GENERATE any AI art just to redraw it - for a lot of reasons - but I don't think that's what you were doing? (I guess I shouldn't assume lol)

in any case I just wanted to share that with you. keep doing what you're doing.