No. So I’m friends with artists, real artists not ai artists, whose work has been scraped and used without their consent to build ai image generators. The ai generated crap you’re calling “art” is built on the stolen labor of artists who put in the time and effort to actually improve in their craft, people who have put their souls and life and experience into their work. The same people who have devalued artists’ work to the point that it’s vanishingly rare to meet people who live on their art alone, are now stealing it so that myopic chuds like you can make a picture of the Statue of Liberty with her navel in the wrong place. It’s not a tool for artists, it is a tool for billionaires to cut artists out of their own industry, and you’re helping them.
Ai art is theft, it’s killing the fucking planet, and you’re clapping your hands like a child at a magic show for it. Talk to any of the artists you repost and ask how they feel about ai “artists” comparing what they do to what an actual illustrator does, or how they feel about their work getting fed into a grinder without so much as a credit, let alone proper payment.
Fuck ai, and fuck anyone who uses it.
(Reposted bc I forgot tumblr buries the comment behind the jump, and I didn’t want it to look like I was just reblogging that junk at a glance)


















