I think the first page works all on its own. Whole thing is great tho!

Creadit https://www.instagram.com/happyordiecartoons

Tangentially related: Oh boi I just love AI bros coming out of nowhere defending GenAI when nobody asked for their opinion. Wish more communities / instances would take a hard anti-AI stance and just get rid of them. It's not like anyone will make them see where they're wrong.

Missing panel where management is burnt out fixing slop and doing this on top of normal work.

I've started adding or tags to people's usernames when they can't pull their head out of their ass.

Gives me a heads up on what to dodge without falling victim to an overzealous admin wildly swinging the ban-hammer.

printing press vs calligrapher

AI should have been used to do work for us to give us more time for art. Not the other way around...

The flip side is that AI being able to create art democratizes art so that anyone with an idea can execute it. I don't need to have a steady hand to make a drawing of the idea I have and I don't need to be a software expert- I can describe what I want and what message I'm trying to convey and when the AI produces what I had imagined, I can share it with the world.

Or you could pick up a pencil and put it to paper, actually expressing what's in your soul through your own efforts. I know which one I'd prefer to look at.

Also, saying AI "Democratizes art" ignores several million years of people making art with whatever was on hand, whether that be 3D modeling software, or charcoal on a cave wall. Art has always been Democratic and Free; AI, notably, isn't.

You misspelled plagiarism. Ai learned from stealing.

And as for art:

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Actually , you know what? I’m not going to touch this. I’d rather watch you fail than help you learn via criticism. So You go head and call whatever you think you’re doing ‘art’ all you want.

No other real artist touch this one either. Save the criticism and lessons for real artists. Let this one fail on their own.

Then the question is: whom does that favor more: people with good ideas or people with bad ideas? Of those two groups, which one was more likely to work hard and develop a talent?

The flip side is that AI being able to create art democratizes art so that anyone with an idea can execute it.

Is having a for-profit company intermediating and generating all art really "democratizing" it?

AFAIK "democratizing" something doesn't simply mean "makes it easier". That ease is also only temporary. Once you're thoroughly deskilled and dependent upon it, that's when the subsidies will end.

And you tag people's usernames, while not being an admin yourself, how?
Lol we should have these tags in real life to help avoid narcissists!

Humans learn by copying other artists too.

AI isn't a person. It's just a bunch of numbers that get multiplied with an input.

To make those numbers a real person steals everyone's art and find out which set of numbers best copies that art.

It's pure theft, if you only feed it a few comics it will recreate them as perfectly as a photocopier. The magic is that if you feed it enough art it's copies become less authentic to the original (although sometimes still almost identical) so people feel like it's an "artist making new art" instead of a broken copy machine. Then you slap a name like "AI Model" on the copyright infringement machine and you can sell a subscription for 30$/month so any moron can copyright infringe. Best part is they take the liability!

What a great money making deal, and you can kill the environment all at the same time!

I'm gonna get downvotes again, but: no I couldn't. Art class was mandatory for 9 years of school for me and I can still only draw shit with straight lines. Using a ruler. I can't do anything with a "free hand" as the teacher called it. If I had a project that required art on even a 3rd grade level I could choose between AI and hiring a person I can't afford.

That said, I hate what it does to professional artists. And luckily I don't have time to go through with the video game I wanted to create so I don't have to choose between AI and a real human with actual creativity right now.

Motherfucker I don't give a fuck whether you're a professional artist or a literal child drawing the most dogshit scribbles imaginable, I STILL prefer that over the most refined AI Slop that could possibly be generated. Its not ABOUT the technical skill on display, it's about the sheer fact that YOU, a REAL, PHYSICAL PERSON, picked up the tools and decided to TRY. That alone is what's worthy of commendation, not the fact that AI can shit out generically hot anime waifus in .0032 seconds.

Option in Boost, the app I use. There's an option "Tag User" when you click on a name, and whatever you type appears next to their name in all their comments.

hiring a person I can't afford.

That's the crux of the issue for me. Most models will be trained using everything they can find on the internet and steal the ability to draw from these images. Then nobody will pay artists and AI vendors will make money instead of real humans.
Capitalists win and we lose