Commissar-Anarchofox

As you might have noticed, I didn't leave this site even after they stole my work as well to feed their AI-programs. It doesn't mean I don't care about it. Even though I have been persisting on posting stuff online like a cockroach I am, many of my very talented colleagues are disappearing from the net because of this. It sucks. AI "art" is, if anything else, a breach of trust. It used to be a pretty safe and low effort thing to upload your art into the net, and most of us did that a lot. Art exist to be seen, after all. But this whole mentality which is becoming more and more pervasive, doesn't see art as an art. It's just "content" to scroll through and forget. Asking if AI can be a real tool for artists is not the question we should be asking right now, it should be about the ethical side of the things: The countless amount of talent and insight, years of blood and sweat that go to improving ones skills is being stolen and then grounded through AI programs and mashed to