AI “Art” SUCKS. So I’m STEALING it. | My Honest Thoughts and How to Fight Back against AI Art Theft

[@yddyhrxhtfxgfhxtfh3986]

I just hate how they just steal art online and funneling into their ai

[@SweetieDreamz]

I love the silhouette sketch technique! I’ve been trying it out a little recently I’d definitely love a tutorial on it!

[@DoveJS]

I'd also love a tutorial on that. :)

[@StayArtsy]

Same!

[@babykaylastar7464]

Me too!

[@ggmrgameanddraw]

i really hope more people adopt the practice of calling it ai images instead of ai art. i wrote an essay for my applied ethics final at my college about the ethics of ai images and i made an entire foreword explaining why it's not only wrong, but unethical and disingenuous to refer to it as art. your art is super adorable and i'm definitely subscribing

[@pseudonamed]

There are certainly no AI "artists" because prompting is basically just commissioning.. they're commissioning the work, not creating it. And the AI is only able to assemble the work through recreating real human artworks, it is not creating either.

[@ggmrgameanddraw]

@ to compare ai image generation to artists creating custom commissions is disingenuous because it implies an ai can understand and put enough care into a piece for another person the same way an artist can.

[@pseudonamed]

@@ggmrgameanddraw As I said, the AI is not creating either. The only real artists involved are those whose work was used to train the AI.

[@Animalloveplayz]

How do you only have 284 subs?! I’m subscribing on all of my accounts right now !!

[@LutraLovegood]

Mad lass subscribed on 750 accounts

[@Animalloveplayz]

@@LutraLovegood lol

[@ElectricAnimalSyntax]

all three thousand of them???

[@CherryCharm2001]

I always take these AI character designs and redraw them myself their only good for ideas and I find it so laughable people on DA are putting watermarks on AI "art" like they made it

[@naraku971]

The AI bros really hate when you redraw the character designs, and I think it's hilarious, though it seems like I've ruffled the feathers of an ANTI AI person because she literally called a redrawn image an AI image (which was weird as I only redraw in my own style, and my style looks nothing like the run of the mill AI style), and before I could even respond, she'd already blocked me. Like huh???

[@theshinypeliper8813]

This is what it should be used for imo! Use it as a basis for ideas for actual art!

[@djmtv9616]

@@CherryCharm2001 𝚂𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚒 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚒 "𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜" 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚒 "𝚊𝚛𝚝" 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚘

[@MissingMalachi]

4:17 As a person who enjoys drawing characters and OC’s I think AI art is such a great concept in theory! But the ways is being used and passed off as being original really sucks. It could be such a great way to come up with concepts or ideas but instead it’s being used maliciously 😞

[@naraku971]

I agree, and the courts have been consistent with the fact that AI images belong to no one. Yet despite this, there's AI bros that copystrike people on Pinterest.

[@yoshisarethebomb]

Yeah I feel it’d be helpful for people with aphantasia

[@absolutelykyanite]

i also love to do silhouette sketching:D also, how do you only have 222 subs!? this vid amazing describes what is wrong with ai. glad to see sm1 out here pointing allis out. (+1 sub)

[@AdarableKitten]

I'm glad to learn the silhouette tip! I struggle with poses so this may be a upgrade for my work!! thank you! and I agree they did not create the image generators right. they should have put out a application/donate forum and not let anyone plug in copyright art into them.

[@misttowers9612]

4:00 I totally agree with you there and also I’ve been thinking about what if they had hired people who give consent for the art to be used? Because then it would give jobs to artist who might need it instead of stealing it without the consent and not being compensated for their work

[@Shioniko]

My fav's is definitely the butterfly girl , she gives me vibes of a bubbly person who is also very graceful

[@XSillygooseX]

12:14 I’m kinda upset you didn’t give her that giant backpack cuz it looked so cute on her- but I also like the kitty 😭

[@june8th_]

I lowkey thought you were a famous youtuber/artist UNTIL I saw this one comment saying you only had 200 SUBS?? I subcribed almost immediately.

[@StayArtsy]

Fr lol

[@novathesilliest]

this is amazing!! i can't believe you only have a few hundred subscribers. I totally agree with your opinions and think you explained everything really well!! This also helped me try to improve my art a bit, i saw how you would shade stuff and i think i might try to use that technique! I absolutely love your style and i just think its adorable. Please keep posting, i can already tell youre gonna be recognized!! :3

[@SweetieDreamz]

Oh for sure Adobe is definitely a no go If I was considering it before I really am not now I personally am switching from procreate to CSP (for the comic making features 👀)

[@naraku971]

I mean, they Adobe charges I think 60 a month just to use their services. I pay 28 a year for my CSpaint subscription, what's the better deal in that scenario?

[@istatat7083]

I really love your nuance and honestly refreshing view of AI. Most artists nowadays just aggressively hate on ai and though I cant blame them, you're calmer approach really is a breath of fresh air. I'm an artist myself and tbh, I'm more saddened than angered at how this all played out. I adore the idea of humans and ai working together and tbh, I think that's where the future should go. But the current state of the ai field with the massive egos of ai bros to me only hinders the progress of ai and our society as a whole. AI isnt meant to replace artists or people but to help them yet this unfortunately isnt the case. I am hoping and praying that things will get better :((

[@skyjelly9790]

What nuance? What refreshing view? This is just the same low-IQ garbage I've heard parroted by every other arttuber who thinks their shit doesn't stink.

[@StayArtsy]

Same!

[@Monkiemango]

Yay another video🎉!! I love that this is addressing Ai art in such a wholesome way. Plus, the art you made is so fun and cute!! Excited for the next video whenever it's coming out, it'll be worth the wait! (also I purchased the Artist 24 pro after watching your first video, I'm excited to to use it for my own art! 😂🎉)

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

yay!! I'm so excited for you

[@NairaAhsan]

I think u should abandon adobi or pirate it cuz u gotta steal it back or use other paid/free art software

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

highly agree! currently in the process of figuring all that out x.x

[@NairaAhsan]

@@AthalieDrawsThings noice :D

[@CosmicRot]

oh yeah blocking/sillhouetting is GREAT as someone who has aphantasia.. I didn't really ever think it was something I could do if I did lineart and didn't paint/render things in the way that blocking makes sense, but it's been amazing and super helpful. I wish i could find a decent way to do it with traditional art haha

[@viridiankat8527]

3:24 THE POKEMON KZbinR????? LOCKSTIN AND KNOGGIN????

[@tuulikk2]

I'm going to try a few times to build drawings in a similar way with grey, because that way you did it it really cool. I listened more than I watched as I was drawing on my main screen. No complaint over your voice, it was a good magnet keeping me here. I wish there actually was different ways to interact with the like button, it would be way more cool than having other options to the like button. Subscribing now and I look forward to watching your other videos.

[@professormanhattan7254]

I would definitely try the shading technique explained. If I drew digitally that is lol. Love your take on AI and how you are fighting the good fight. Cheers mate

[@AgentMoray]

Subbed. Really cool method of doing the silhouette shape painting - I'll try that :)

[@iquvii1285]

I just discovered your channel today and am your 1000 subscribers lol. Just wanted to say that your content is very entertaining and very good with it’s quality too. I enjoy it very much. Hope to see more great videos (like this) in the future :))

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

omg YAY!! Thank you so much and yes more videos are planned and ready to record!

[@alotanimations]

I think the "emotions" in the first image are busts the AI interpreted as just some faces, and not examples as different faces, because AI usually can't interpret expressions very well.

[@walaafahad4941]

13:00 IT LOOKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOODDD

[@dhroober]

Omg this is the first video I'm watching of yours and it's AMAZING! I subbed ❤❤

[@olaitanluvsojewale]

Photoshop is compromised?? Ong are you telling me they can steal my art straight from the documents on my computer???

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

don't worry as of right now its only affecting users who utilize the adobe cloud storage, so I would get all the files you can out of adobe cloud and you'll be fine.

[@olaitanluvsojewale]

@@AthalieDrawsThings Goodness. Well at least that's something. Thank you so much for telling me, you're so kind 🥲🫶

[@Hidden_G3ms]

So I’m getting back into drawing. Is there anyway that you could do the tutorial on the silhouette sketch technique? I never heard of it but I would love to learn it💛😪

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

my most recent video goes over it more. I always have timestamps in my vids so you could skip right to it. :D

[@Hidden_G3ms]

@@AthalieDrawsThings ok, thank you 👍🏾💛

[@Shaddds]

Idk if someone told you this already BUT- there are so many AI "art" images out there that a couple of months ago the AIs started to feed of of them as well. Just so ya know :]

[@Imme-i4u]

why are you so underrated?! This is so good 😭✨💓

[@binxbrew]

its always so much fun finding other content creators that are parents as well!! immediate subscribe and follow everywhere

[@ClaraNevermind]

I love taking ai designs and making them my own and sometimes when im bored i keep some of the mess ups of it

[@dangitdoodles]

13:45 they all have different vibes, yet use a variation of one colour pallet (more obvious in the ai image). All 3 had a main colour scheme of a pink with a blue! (Not criticism, just an observation)

[@Kimmy-rt2xb]

Please do a tut of the shape thing you mentioned

[@patyk1650]

5:24 I wish I could not use Adobe too but I need it because of graphic design class at school

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

ugh me too, I still have my adobe sub from my college days. No shame if its a required tool, but when you're done with college I would recommend pirating it. I'm still trying to figure that out myself but its definitely possible!

[@naraku971]

The schools really should switch over to something like CSpaint, it's so much more versatile imo

[@Bobalexi123]

3:19 wait no wayyy congrats (yeah ik it’s a bit late)

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

LOL thank you

[@SweetieDreamz]

I know I’m commenting a lot lol Last one! (maybe) I LOVE THE ART YOU MADE IN THIS VIDEO I also agree with your opinions on AI images This video is inspiring me to put effort into Cara

[@MoonlitLavenders]

I love the technique you use for poses because I basically sucks at it..... A tutorial on that would really be useful to small artists like me😅 ❤ Also I am a new subscriber ❤ Your art works and videos are really inspiring!!

[@tixitfox5503]

Ai is honestly good for concept, but yes. It would have been so much better if the artist was paid or even just asked for a "donation" for art. Can you imagine the things it could do with files and layers?? Ai "art" can be done right. I just think people hoped on it too soon. Also people looking for money grabs, rather than the love of learning a new skill. So its greedy, but it can be done right to HELP artists. Rather than taking them out of a job or loosing love for the skill because "a line of code can do better"

[@Silva_moon]

I do think artist should get credit that they deserve,but I don’t consider taking AI ‘’art’’ and redrawing it as is technologically stealing someone’s art that got stolen and wouldn’t do any good to the artist as then more people would think its okay to steal AI ‘’art’’(just remember that you can take inspo but you can’t redraw someone’s art even if it’s AI, it’s still art theft when you think about it)

[@sunnie._.sideup]

your art is so good!!! i smell an underrated artist, immediate sub

[@CroissantsSlay]

there's no way you only have 600 subs, this video is so good! 💜

[@wissie-d]

She has 160k, this is a alt of hers, check her profile it’s on there

[@CroissantsSlay]

@@wissie-d Ooooh.... fair enough

[@kensei_kensei]

casually watching this i excpected atleast like 50k subs, suuuuuper underated! :0

[@jocelynecupcake]

Ai is fun to use for reference or to mess around with, but not for these purposes of stealing art and posting is as your own. I wish the programs weren't in favor of AI art

[@xxsilly0_oxx]

ohmygosh!!!! I thought you were a huge KZbinr but you’re REALLY underrated. So…as a gift here’s a sub and like!

[@xxsilly0_oxx]

Oh and I LOVE your art! It’s very cute!!

[@PotatoJuice28]

I love your work and I also love using the shadow method but i'd like to know if it can still be a useful skill when doing traditional art?

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

Suprisingly yes? So if you do traditional (its been years since ive done this) but you could put down a light wash of watercolor to paint in the shadow before sketching. that would also give you a bit of an overlay layer like in digital art because itll help unify the colors you put down after. I say watercolor because you can erase easier over watercolor than other paints. (I used to be a watercolor girlie before I went full traditional) I could be completely wrong, but Its definitely worth experimenting :D

[@JuliusAshmodai]

I have become mutuals with some art prompters on Deviantart, they are really nice and open about it. They don't want credit for their designs and just want to be paid for the subscription and little time. Part of their TOS is that you HAVE to say that the design was made by ai and preferably by the ai they are using. Overall they don't mind people using the design for inspiration. What I don't like and what they don't like either is completely 1:1 using the design. The one's that do always have the reason that it's stolen from artist, so why steal it as well? Stealing from a thief is still theft

[@zeasial]

IM SO HAPPY I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL OMLLL

[@namelessandafraid1109]

You're quickly becoming a new fave youtuber! Been trying to absorb more long form content that I can easily have playing in the background of gaming or art! I'm excited to witness your journey 🫡

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

omg that's awesome! I'm genuinely glad its watchable as a background video. those are my favorite kinds of videos to watch.

[@crystala5033]

Yes, please provide a tutorial, when you can, on drawing figures by blocking out the silhouette first.

[@Hypoanimations24]

This is an amazing video and inspires me to keep going

[@Sparrowlicious-01]

The first character is just the trans flag. Which is very nice. But i'm glad you recreated this mashup into some real art

[@NairaAhsan]

Ai generated images looks "pretty" but your art is yummy and tastes like fresh mango icecream cone on a summer day after school and ai images tastes like a rotting mango witch has cockroches in it

[@ririlerinna]

Me watching this knowing damn well 50% of my drawing have no soul

[@PhantomTheManx]

This ain’t art This is BEAUTY

[@mirandahills6107]

Ai thinks everyone loves anime.

[@hyrulegend9786]

Enjoyed todays video , hope you feel better soon 🙏🏻😊💞hope you & the family have a great weekend!

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

Thank you! I hope you have an awesome weekend as well :D

[@hyrulegend9786]

@@AthalieDrawsThings You're very welcome & thank you 😊

[@Zequax]

i kinda feel this is the right way to use AI art generators

[@ogkpopper]

I fckin love your energy! Subscribed immediately!

[@sylv5873]

5:00 krita time !!

[@Kallmemral]

I'll take that tip! Ty I do actually use ai for ideas :)

[@LunaAzulX]

This art is amazing, you should have more subs

[@fuuya]

there's one thing i can guarantee you is that ai bros are NOT financially unstable

[@skyjelly9790]

Basically pick on someone your own size, not use a sham of a moral crusade as an excuse to punch down at people.

[@Moonyardcove]

I just found your channel your art is so adorable

[@oriongear2499]

Is it wrong for me to utilize an AI Art Generator to generate images for me to redraw?

[@Lilmushroom474]

Your voice is so calming

[@LumineScara-tp9sw]

I think my fav is the last one

[@hidatk5079]

Here b4 she goes famous gang!! 👇

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

lets GOOO 🎉🤩🎉

[@AngelMess]

We love if you get the tutorial please 🙏

[@IloveJesus125]

Your style is so cute !!!!!

[@Strawberrystary1]

oml your soooo good at drawing, your soo underrated!!!!💖 i subed ofc how can i not?!💕💕

[@LumineScara-tp9sw]

Nah bro we cooked with AI, they can create nud e images with your head on them and even ruined a 18y/o reputation because of it 💀

[@LumineScara-tp9sw]

I love this, i also did that, ai is so good to create oc or to give inspiratio

[@theshinypeliper8813]

THIS IS HOW AI SHOULD BE USED

[@DragonNova__765]

the untold war of SamDoesArts and Kooleen might still be going... o well why am i even talkin about this anyways? o yeah to spread message they might [like] each other

[@alexistaylor1257]

I wouldn’t recommend promoting Sam does art He steals photos of girls on their Instagram accounts and doesn't credit them. Kinda ironic with this video being about theft

[@Zero_Zin]

Feel better soonn😋

[@TrinityJules-l9l]

Im subscribing to you i love your video and your voice and i like the way you describe things

[@AstroDoesArt]

My favorite is the 3rd one :3 Can't wait till you go live again!! :D 🫶

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

hopefully when I can afford a pc upgrade we'll be back to livestreaming :D

[@Agethaples-BD]

Syilvion Pokémon colors!

[@Vivid_pixcel]

An interesting side effect of what your saying about ai having no soul in their images is like sometimes artists go out of their way for and even overemphasize the soullessness as a style and like ai is totally raining on their parade.

[@mazuru7319]

My question can sound a little stupid but why AI is that much hated ?

[@AthalieDrawsThings]

depending on the AI you're talking about. AI images and videos are definitely hated by the art community. Only due to the fact they pretty much just took everything publicly posted on social media without an easy option to opt out, even worse now with programs like Adobe actually going into your Adobe creative cloud account to use your private work for AI. Although the art generated by AI doesn't usually look like any of our art, it was still theft to a lot of artists. If it wasn't for that I think AI images as a tool is wonderful! They just crossed a boundary with us by taking our art. Hope that helps and thank you for asking! :)

[@MingLi-bh6qs]

Honestly, I wouldn't copy ai art because you are just copying thousands of different artist's art. I think it's the same as or even worse than copying others art and not giving credit. Pls don't hate me for saying this, I'm just voicing out my opinion. I think you are a good person with good intentions but I don't really recommend this🤔🤔🤔

[@MingLi-bh6qs]

Also I don't really thing we can gate keep from ai because it's mostly people who are stealing our drawings. As we get better at drawing, ai gets better too, that's why ai is so bad at drawing hands and there really I is not a way to stop this sadly. Ai is in almost everything we do and the one to blame is humans. Don't fear the monster hiding under you bed, fear the humans -inspirational quote from me

[@MingLi-bh6qs]

*stealing our drawings and giving it to ai and training them too

[@ranha_Isha]

I just wanna comment this: As a fellow artist, That's (sometimes) how art works? A design is derived from MULTIPLE different concepts OTHER artists may have already thought about, but it doesn't make your work any less original. Like horns, for example. You see many artists draw horns - albeit sometimes differently, a non-artist might think it looks similar Because they have the same concept. Having a shared concept / multiple concepts taken into one art/design form is still original. It's not a 1:1 copy. It's what we artists calls referencing. Ex. I like how a certain artist does things, and I "merge" it with other artist's work that I find myself inspired by. Does that make my idea "original" ? No, But is **my artwork** original and not a 1:1 copy? Yes. That's just what this KZbinr is trying to showcase through AI. I'm not justifying the usage of AI, but an artist's workflow also consists of referencing multiple artists. especially if you're a beginner. The only instance It's considered copying is 1:1. Copying EACH every single line, shade, colour. That is plagiarism, that is copying. Traving, even. I'm not calling you out on your own opinion, though ! I'm just saying this as it came from experience of referencing multiple artists' work that I find on pinterest (and if you know pinterest.. well, those people don't credit artists much anymore.)

[@XSillygooseX]

This is, in my opinion, what AI art should be used for. To help compile your ideas, and then you draw it yourself in your own styles. Artists have been copying others art for ages. Master studies- where artists copy piece for piece another artist’s drawing, tracing- ethically with permission and credit to get a better idea of how to draw a certain thing, and using references- both real and from other artists. Copying is, well, what are started out as and still is to this day. You copy the things you see, feel, hear, taste, and smell, and put them into works on your paper. Nothing is entirely original, and that’s part of the beauty of art.

[@TakitoRi_]

referencing ??? I thought we all agreed that wasn't bad ???

[@NatTheRat2]

My fav is the third one ❤ i love her overly puffy jacket and the colours!

[@kidney_kat]

how do you have under 900 subs ?? from the way i saw ur video i expected like 30-50k what super cute tho

[@strawberrymochi4181]

Keep up the great work

[@playfulwriter9796]

I was feeling really shitty before I watched this, but this made me feel at least a little better. Thank you.

[@gabyeguizabal7164]

I use AI for inspiration (when I use it😅)

[@SweetieDreamz]

Oh! 👀👀

[@samgordon9756]

You are the first artist I have seen who understands AI's utility and can see past the transgression. Like, I sympathize, I really do. But I also came to understand a similar issue a long time ago, and the simple fact is it's impossible to undo in real life. There's no Ctrl+Z for space time, and even if there was the billionaire class would already own whatever bits of it the government allowed. Generated images are here and they aren't going away. Something about genies and bottles. (I know you actually can get the genie back in the story, but AI has no ego to appeal to and it's listening to millions of voices and using up all the power capacity. I don't know if I should be happy crypto is now not the only thing generating excessive demand during the climate crisis or bothered, but that's a different story. If you want to survive AI, you have to understand it. That might mean understanding how it works, or understanding what it does well and where it fails. You have to understand the ecosystem. You have to understand that every bit of AI content was created by a person with intent. You have to ask how you can counter that intent. And you have to ask what AI can do for you. Modern medicine is built upon a metric fucton of moral abuses of the living and the dead. Are you going to give up health care? You look at content to learn and draw inspiration. Don't be picky about the source. Just make sure your AdBlock is on and working. AI art business is about collecting views and ad revenue, after all, just like the rest of AI content generation.

[@Uncreative_Username]

Love your art but ur going a little overboard on the highlights tho lol

[@ItzKoifish]

My only recommendation is to not trace it 1 to 1, instead use the Ai art to study and learn anatomy even though it might be off a little (especially with hands). If you trace it 1 to 1, then some of the aspects or assets will be messed up poorly and make it very obvious that you traced Ai if you were to post it without context. (Highly doubt anyone would post Ai artworks they traced, unless they’re extremely dumb.) And another thing, I would also suggest finding the original creator of that Ai piece(the one who got their artwork stolen), and at least put credit in the piece you are making somewhere as that technically does count as tracing the original artwork but with flaws if it is 1 to 1 tracing. (People might think Im soft for saying this but idc) As an artist myself, I personally agree that Ai art is wrong and it is stealing artworks and flawing them, HOWEVER we can use Ai art to study anatomy as well, Example the faces, normally the faces will be correct in anatomy, so however the artwork is stolen, does not mean we cannot learn to improve our selves with studying it. (Not saying to become the hand drawn Ai artist, but like to improve in style. If that makes sense.)

[@GoldenTV3]

"We're going to be stealing AI art and tracing it" Good. That's what we want. The democratization of art. We literally encourage you to "steal" AI art and use it for inspiration.

[@nicholebaxter9192]

Hi umm I have something is is that my name is actually Athalie

[@mairahmizuki8159]

UNDERRATED

[@EkiruZ]

What stops me from training a model on the art you showed in this video?

[@geargraphic2620]

LETS GOOOOO

[@DuckyDraws1]

Slay girl I love this

[@ohw5306]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Arak_art]

New sub, cool video