Istg if one more person accuses me of using AI because they “ran the art through an AI detector”, or “it looks like the AI I requested”, or “that’s too good for someone to make”, I’m going to lose my shit and delete everything.
How about you take into consideration that some of us have been doing this stuff for literal years? How about you think about the fact that AI models were literally trained on actual artists’ work?
Just because you can’t fathom how someone might put something together doesn’t mean that it was made by AI.
I’m honestly disappointed by the reaction from so many of you. I pour my heart and soul into my work, and it breaks my heart to see the accusations because it takes what I love doing and renders it meaningless.
Because of this, I’m going to be taking a break. I’ve got some bang and reverse bang commitments that I’m going to follow through with, but that’s going to be it for a while.
I love creating, and I love my fandoms, but this is going too far. I spent hours creating something I’m super proud of for a zine that I was invited to be part of.
My art involved photoshopping a reference image, creating pride jerseys from scratch, learning how to manipulate images to “fit” over the reference models, photoshopping the actors faces over the reference images, and then going through the process of layering textures and backgrounds and making it look like watercolours, adding the overlines and playing with the colours and tones.
I shouldn’t need to explain my process to everyone. I shouldn’t need to defend myself against baseless accusations. I definitely don’t have to produce a fucking “screen record” of my process to defend myself.
So, fuck you if you’ve jumped on the bandwagon. Fuck you if you think someone who has been in fandom since the late 90s would resort to using AI. And fuck you for not having the guts to say it to my face. You don’t deserve nice things.
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