guess I'll draw.

“Oh the people are gonna love this” I say making the most niche piece of media art work that is really only for me,3 people ,and a plastic bag that blows in every so often

Okay imagine a robot cyborg girl who's sleek and modern. Her casing is shiny and pink. She can run at 30 miles an hour and lift two tons. She smells like cherry blossoms and lubricant.

Okay now imagine another cyborg girl who's all chunky and retro. She's got grey and beige components but her head is that clear 90's plastic. She's always hot from how hard her CPU is running and smells like cigarette smoke and burning electrical components.

Now imagine them as girlfriends

@sassy-in-glasses dont leave this in the notes

anyway. oop my hand slipped

[id: two images. The first is a screenshot of tags that read “isn’t this just lesbian WALL-E”

The second is fully rendered digital artwork. All of the pieces I describe from here on out have mostly plain backgrounds and are of human shaped robots that match the description above. For ease of clarity, I will refer to the clunky beige robot as “she/her” and the pink robot with “they/them.”

This particular piece has a sleek, light pink fembot with hot pink contouring lines. They are smiling and walking gracefully with a robot sitting on their shoulder. This bot has a soft fond expression. She is clunky and dirty with beige and gray paneling. She also has red exposed wiring that functions as a unibrow and shoulder-length hair.]

There’s more art in parallel reblog chains, so here they are in one place!!

[id: nicely rendered digital art by @bagel-bunch of a fat gray robot in a sitting position being held up in the air by a skinny fem robot. The gray robot has a full head covering with little bangs peeking out over a pale white blushing face. The vents in her shoulders are puffing air. The pink robot is holding them up with two arms straight in the air. They are feminine and pink with a sleek skinny body, a dark brown face, and dark pink hair with a headphone jack ponytail cord that goes down to their waist.]

[id: fully rendered digital art by @therenaissancedungeonmaster of a white and pink feminine bot with a black screen for a face. The expression is ///^v^/// (happy) and they are leaning dotingly of the shoulder of their partner, a much larger beige robot. She is blushing and beginning to overheat as she uses a screwdriver on her large clunky gun arm. Some of her components are clear and there are many generic colorful stickers stuck onto her body.]

[id: a traditional colored sketch by @sehruncreative of a clunky beige classic-looking robot leaning on a mostly featureless person-shaped purple robot. The beige robot has springs for limbs and a blush on their face. The other robot has heart eyes, and both robots are standing facing forward with an arm around each other.]

[id: art by @pundragongallery of a feminine pink robot with geometric contour lines, a red sweetheart top, and short see thru skirt. They are sitting on the lap of a butch white human with a robot arm and leg. The human has a short black undercut, but instead of bald head where the undercut usually goes, it’s cybernetic implant. She’s wearing a brown shirt and shorts, black vest with pins, and single black work boot on the human foot. Her robot parts are uncovered and have blue, dark gray, and beige geometric designs. The human has a hand on the robot’s waist and leg, and both characters are smiling at each other.]

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

My ocs are the best. 

[doesn’t post content about them ever]