I do not know if anyone has contributed to the dysgenic decay-decline-induced by this "AI art" kerfuffle in the way I will do now and I do not wanted to bother the folks in the AI thread, so my apologies if I am late.
First lets make a few distinctions. 3 types :
1st. The called "artist" who are colossal faggots with brains rotted by fucked-up conceptions of the world, retarded ideologies, mental sickness, etc. I have seen this first-hand pretty often for those past 10 years. You probably know those types, they deserved to be humbled in some ways. They are not the most skilled of all and are on par with the 2nd types I would say(when they do not produce garbage).
2nd. The casual, not realy that skilled or talented, contributing to a mountain of insipid and unremarkable trash or with a few good things from time to time. They are just regulars and not complet faggots like the 1st type.
3rd. The small portion which is very much talented at what they do(communication of emotions-feelings-visions through their work). De facto the most deserving of the bunch despite being sometimes as unsufferable as the 1st type.
Now as a poorfag, having acces to so much quality art from the 3rd type was a magnificent boon, allowing me spending hundreds of hours over 11 years looking for the best portraits for my characters in cRPGs or for my tokens, sometimes just talking with the creators or simply relaxing for an evening only watching their work after a shitty day and looking for the best of them to tip/pay. If you want your cultur or social ecosystem/niche to thrived your have to give something(money, resources, feedback, gifts, etc) from times to times. Those tools might help to substitute the SOURCE of the DATASET used to train itself by undermining the commissioner's needs for the source itself, damaging even more a certain social ecosystem where the source could thrive before, which in turn might not help the DATASET to be fed properly("as best as it could" I guess).
What's the point for some of those types if a few brainy "techbros" can just ripped off the result of the 3rd type brain matter and skills and just replicate so "easily" without any consent ? Now that some of them have a big incentive to not show their work/creation too much or at all on the internet and that "Ai artists"(commissioners) are proliferating, I will have more difficulties to know whom to reward fairly for their work. Who do I reward ? The company who created the machine which generated a picture ? The more or less talentless man using the machine to take commissions and lining his pockets ? Or have I to guess from which work the machine borrowed to find the right source ? Now, I am not so sure anymore.
Even worse, some folks are going to abuse those tools, never realy developping any skills on their own. Thus missing themself an opportunity to properly share their emotions-feelings-visions as best as they can by performatives means. A shared missed opportunity for them and us. With the proliferation of AI art now a mountain of monstruous garbage was added to a previous mountain of garbage. To find true gems online is going to be harder, not easier.
Without this mass-sharing I would never have know those creators and their work, I might never have developped a certain sense of details and styles. They made my life more beautfiful and less miserable. Now there is less or even no more sharing from them, more paywalls, less portofolios and even near complete disappearance from the net for some of them. All this in just a few months. This is the skrinking of a piece of the old-internet for the the growth of a more predatory one or/and a regulated one.
I am not even mad, no point beeing mad at another crowd of colossal dysgenic talentless faggots. I am just exceptionally sadden to see another online environnment being even more trashed, like many before it those last few years. Though on a more positif side I never gloomed so hard, as it pushed me to reevaluate the value of those exellent content creator and of those who could potentially be nurtured to be better.
Oh and by the way, not all community are affected badly, the coomer weebs are having the time of their life.
(Just in 1 year)
