Sharing my ko-fi again! I have a new sketch commission available on there y’all can check out, which I’ll be trying to post a separate link to if it’s possible.
My prices are cheap, but does become expensive the more complex the add-ons are for my current skills.
this design was ai-generated and posted on deviantart with the purpose of sale, but ai-generated images aren't intellectual property, so now it's yours! free-to-use.
using tumblr mobile and seeing people talk about a desktop layout change is like hearing a timer suddenly start ticking down. I am safe for now but I hear the danger
You have no idea how many people lurk on your work. No idea how many times people go back to revisit your work. How big they smile when they simply think about your work. How fast their heart beats, how excited they get when they see that you posted something.
People are shy with their feedback. Sometimes it’s because they’re simply shy. Other times it’s because they assume you already know how great and talented you are. Could be both.
My point is, even if you barely have any likes or reblogs, don’t get discouraged. You have a lot of silent fans, but they are still your fans. Keep on creating. Because there is always someone out there who will love what you have made.
I thought i was on the wrong website
("Tell our userbase it was planned, Jenkins.")
Something's been bugging me, and I assume you've thought this through, I just want to put my own mind at ease: The whole reason for this blog is because ai art is theft (which it is), but in that case, wouldn't anyone who uses these designs be stealing from the same artists the ai are?
my take is, you can't unring a bell. we can't unsteal the art that was scraped to create these designs, and we can't get it removed because dA has already decided that it's fine to host ai content.
the whole point of an adoptable is that it's a design which is sold so that whoever purchases it has sole rights. i think if ai art has to exist (since it's not just something we can push back into the ocean), it should be something that is free for everyone, due to its inherently derivative nature. you shouldn't be able to make money off of it.
the goal is to be a little mischievous and make it annoying/difficult for these people to make money, because it's immoral as fuck to make money off of something that's not yours by rights (due to being built off stolen art). the best way to do that right now, in my opinion, is to take these designs that are being sold, and draw it, and lay claim to it. this makes it clear that the designs can't be sold, because whoever is buying it can't get sole rights (as it's not intellectual property), and also any prospective buyers should just take it instead of giving money to these people.
i don't think us doing this hurts the original artists any more than they've already been hurt. the offense has been made, the original art has been stolen (scraped by ai), it's being sold, and the platform it's hosted on sees no issue with that. i would hope that us trying to make something of these designs & make it annoying to sell them by making them a free resource would help the original artists more than it would hurt them further.
this is more or less just us doing what we can to try and make it annoying or difficult to make money off ai adoptables, and point out how shitty it is to buy these designs when you could just take them. i've already seen some "artists" on dA say that reposts are annoying to them, offering to remake designs for people who bought them, so i figure we should compound that annoyance by making it something that more people can do.
on a brighter note, i believe that there's something inherently transformative when a human sets out to create something. so, the real stars of this process are the ai rehabers-- they're making something entirely new out of all of this in a way that ai can't.
ultimately, i don't know if this blog is the best possible solution, but i do think it's the one we can do right now, to annoy people who are doing something shitty, while hopefully not annoying the injured parties too much more in the process.
this design was ai-generated and posted on deviantart with the purpose of sale, but ai-generated images aren't intellectual property, so now it's yours! free-to-use.
A little shocked I have to say this but please don't feed my work, my writing or my art, to any AI for generative purposes or otherwise. Generative AI is theft, and innocent intentions are not an excuse. I'm not going to explain why generative AI is bad, many artists and writers have already done that much more eloquently than I ever could. Do your own research. I work professionally in art and have been deeply personally impacted by AI, and seeing AI versions of my characters is deeply upsetting.
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Already knew I could Frankenstein my way into making a new posible model in Poseit, but it’s only now I figured out how to use them for posing.
Tfw your new furry OC is both a dog and a fox, but the design isn’t complete, so you just draw over a picture of screaming foxes to also remind yourself.
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔
Reblog if a mutual who's never spoken to you can randomly send you memes that made them think of you.
Alright, first design for this new character. No name yet, but I have a placeholder that may or may not stick. So for now, say hello to Richie. That name may or may not change in the future.
I still need to figure out the rest of his design, but I’m happy with this for now.
Once again thank you to @free-adoptables for the free adoptable.
Colors need to be adjusted, but otherwise I’m definitely getting somewhere with this redesign.
A note to all creatives:
Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.
No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.
We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.
Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.
And they especially are not scabs.
*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.
