HAN-BAN-BAM

Well, it seems I have reached a new badge of honor by having my art fed into the ai slop machine bc somebody was butthurt about my anti ai post. There is a word for people like this: pathetic.

So! Congrats you are now going to be put on blast for all to see and block now. Cry and whine all you want. You just fucked around and now you’re about to find out.

These slop creators can’t understand how much it hurts to see your art stolen and modified as if it meant nothing. They can’t because they’ve never -and never will- put the effort it takes to create something made by themselves, thanks to their own skills and knowledge. Feeding AI with someone’s art, obviously without permission, is not only disrespectful to their art, but to them as a person.

We don't just do art, we are artists. This rips off a part of the artist themselves.

We shouldn't tolerate this kind of behavior. Yes, unfortunately, those tools exist, but we are the ones choosing to use them or not, and how to do so. This should matter, and actions should have consequences.

This is despicable and pathetic. The user came to the attention of us Horizon fanartists over tagging an image (because I won't call that "art") as "since they can't draw, ai art will have to do". Art is a honed skill, a labour of love and creativity, that you pour your heart into and find joy in having made your imagination reality. It's not a matter of "I can't, full stop", you just haven't given it enough time and patience to even grow as a skill. It took us years to get to where we are, at each of our individual art journeys.

And if it still doesn't come easy to you? Support artists! Commission them! Build a community, and respect the creative arts. Prompting genAI images? Makes you a thief, plain and simple. You're stealing from the very people that create the art you get to view for free. GenAI is a cancerous, insidious thing and has no place in fandom and anywhere else.

Another thing, same user within the time this transpired:

"It's extremely annoying to see myself blocked from seeing content I enjoy and would like to engage with."

There is no "rude" or "polite" nature to muting and blocking. Muting and blocking are social media moderation tools, to be used at the discretion of every user and boy would we benefit from people making more generous usage.

A block is a boundary, made and set.

Artists are not a commodity. We do not owe you our art. And being so offended by artists gating off a known genAI prompter, that you turn around and spit in their face by feeding their handmade art into the slop machine to flip them off?

Inspired in part by both @skitpost's drawing here and @han-ban-bam's drawing here, as well as my own frustration that Henry can't talk to Hans about his nightmares.

As Death Is To Dreaming | Pre-relationship, Yearning, Nightmares | G | 1.5k

Hans isn't a light sleeper, but some things are more important than rest. ____________