Copying AI Art Because It Can't Be Copyrighted(!?) (And My Thoughts on AI Art)

It's time for something I've wanted to discuss on my channel for a while now. Being an artist, I have extreme beef against AI art, so today I'm unleashing the salt and copying some AI images that I found! (Although tbh this is more of a combination of copying and fixing AI art than it is just straight up copying, because even though AI art can't be copyrighted just straight up copying it would be weird even for me... 😅)
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☕ Timestamps ☕
00:00 Intro
03:09 Redraw No. 1
09:37 Redraw No. 2
15:28 Redraw No. 3
21:17 Finished Drawings/Outro
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[@xavierway2525]

Leonardo da Vinci came to me in a dream and told me the AI computer drawings of the hands need to be destroyed and that if we don't Sozin's Comet over yonder will destroy the art world as we know it. Source: trust me bro.

[@acupofchamomile]

we must heed the words of leonardo da vinci before the art world is destroyed

[@fancygamer5896]

As someone who watches Avatar and once watched Wander Over Yonder I gotta say I now fully see the consequences of AI computer drawing.

[@NotKeikyzz]

I trust you man

[@Kaie_TheUltimateSimp10]

Ai art is only a dream/hallucination. (You have extra/less fingers in dreams.)

[@emeraldsky2823]

He would be a fan of avatar, we shall heed his words

[@azure7304]

one of my many problems with ai art is when people make character sheets with it. the point of a character sheet is so that you know what the design looks like. that doesn't work if they look different in every pic😐

[@acupofchamomile]

honestly same - the AI character sheets typically have so many inconsistencies between them and at that point it's pretty obvious that it's AI

[@DoveJS]

It still amazes me people can sell those AI model sheets on DeviantArt and some of them actually get bought. The accounts indicate they're AI too cuz you're supposed to but still. I've seen a few that were cute but even my sad butt can draw them (makes me wonder where the OGs they stole from are.) This does make me kinda wanna redraw a few lol (I saved some of those pics more so for inspo purposes, didn't pay a penny, but some have a watermark which is hilarious and also the mistakes with the hands and feet are often amusing.) Edit: some people use the AI to generate a new character which they actually draw and sell but those aren't what I'm referring to, I mean the ones with three different angles/poses that are clearly the AI working hard to figure it out somehow.

[@foxfoxfox6799]

@@DoveJSYeah this I don't get. There's no copyright or whatever so what's stopping someone from just taking the AI art character sheets and just using it?? Sure there's a watermark but you can use AI to remove that LUL. People who buy those are idiots.

[@DoveJS]

@@foxfoxfox6799My only guess is it's people who want something to show an artist who asks for a character sheet when they ask for a commission. But at that point they could also probably find someone to commission for a character sheet. It'll just cost more than the AI art does. but yeah like you said they could probably also use the AI tools themselves.

[@Aelda69]

Some AI generators can remember character prompts. I have one for my OC, Artoria Pendragon in a bikini (or lingerie, or just an apron), and it can consistently make this character now.

[@mtgamer6432]

My opinion of Ai art is honestly that this is genuinely how it’s supposed to be used. Toss some keywords in and get a general idea for what a character or a scene looks like. It’s suppose to be a tool that helps, not does all the work for you. In fact I think it could help a lot for artist that have Aphantasia (when your brain doesn't form or use mental images as part of your thinking or imagination)

[@patrickcarter2829]

Agreed. It was supposed to be a tool to support artists, not replace them. Sadly, most corporations aren't known for having integrity.

[@user-vt5qg7hj1m]

Personally I've found it more counterproductive than anything. It sets me in an idea, and usually a pretty generic one at that...ans then I start finding it hard to deviate from just copying what the ai did but in my own style I prefer not using it at all

[@ShawtyGrim]

Honestly valid opinion. The way I use it is typing in some keywords, then seeing what pose it generates that I like and instead of using the generated character itself I insert an oc. I struggle a lot with poses and sometimes I can't find the desired ones/ones I like on Pinterest so yh ​@@user-vt5qg7hj1m

[@lilyofluck371]

​@@patrickcarter2829"Sadly, corporations aren't known for being smart," there you go, fixed it. The thing is, this isn't even an "integrity" thing. This is corporations fundamentally misunderstanding why art requires the expertise of an actual artist instead of a robot thats just regurgitating the color of pixels back into a slightly coherent but ultimately flawed array.

[@patrickcarter2829]

@@lilyofluck371 fair enough, I just added "most" to not generalize, as there are some corporations that understand but they're few and far between. The only reason I used "integrity" is because even a dumb person can (usually) understand when something is immoral or inflicts self-harm. Then again, a good number of companies have been self-sabotaging themselves as of late for some reason; namely entertainment.

[@Forcommentingpurposes]

I think my biggest gripe with ai art is that tech bros and beginner level artists simply do not want to put in the work. Plain and simple; artists that ai scrape for style are just scraping. They don’t take into account the labor of love that learning art really is. Sure, some people have a knack or talent for art, but that can only get them so far before someone who studies and practices catches up or surpasses them. Ai art enthusiasts just want to skip all of the ugliness of beginning and get right to anime girls with pretty faces and complicated outfits. Which is a kick in teeth to people who spend their lives honing their craft into a work that a robot poorly imitates for the amusement of a human without care for the machines well being. Thanks for coming to my ted talk, I’ll be here all week

[@acupofchamomile]

exactly. some people don't understand the time, intention and effort that human artists put into their work and only care for what's on the surface. usually they either can't see the deeper meaning or they don't want to, and the same goes for putting in the effort to improve their work.

[@nobuffer101]

I will say though that you don't really see oil paintings of anime characters too often, so while it's okay in my opinion to tamper with just for occasional fun, by no means should it *EVER* serve as the primary support to one's creativity and ability. If you are in a creative rut and can't seem to find a solid reference to an idea you have and use AI to get a rough image to help you out, that's fine, sometimes it's okay to rely on things like this when you need too, but that should only be *IF* you need to. At best, AI art, in a serious setting, in my opinion, should only ever serve as a rough draft *FOR* a potential reference *TO* an idea and it's up to the creator to actually turn that idea into their own design, it's relevance to what a creator makes should be as low on the totem pole as possible. But I will admit that sometimes you can see an AI design and get an idea from it, sometimes when I'm browsing for character ideas for a story I take a decent look at a character, whether AI or not, and try to imagine how, based on their design, someone like "them" would affect and connect with other characters, and a decent amount of the time I actually find one that I think changes my own perspective on my own characters. For a quick example, I was writing a character backstory about an orphan (main character) and the orphanage's caretaker in a small countryside village for a campaign. It felt nice but it also felt like it was missing something to really connect the dots to the overall story. I didn't want to write the place like just the "main character's home", I wanted to be able to give it something that allows it to operate by itself. But the setting was too peaceful for many outside factors to affect this little village, and it was too small for any inside factors to provide anything truly significant to the story outside of being the "main character's home"; so I had to change something about the characters who lived there without tampering with the setting. I was wracking my head around and decided to just browse the internet to cool my head. But then I saw a pretty decent AI art of a servant girl, and out of curiosity I just decided to throw her in the mix to experiment a little, lo and behold some ideas started popping up, and the result ended up being a complete revamp of the origins of the caretaker herself and giving her more realistic and engaging motivations that affect her relationship with the orphan character and how it would impact them later into the story. This little countryside village now had its own significant influence (on at least the audience) without any help from the main character. But that's what I mean, it's okay to use AI art as a reference for an idea but that's what it should remain as at most. Ultimately it's up to your own effort and creativity to give what you create a life and a story. Painful as it may be to admit, the saying _"inspiration can come from anywhere"_ can include AI art in the modern setting. It can be a starting point to something great, but you have to draw a line so that as a creator you can walk on your own, as such it should *never* be a creator's foundation.

[@Frick8375]

@@alanhasmemesewww nasty ah anime pfp I just KNOW bro doesn’t shower 💀

[@Forcommentingpurposes]

@@alanhasmemes Here’s my fave chocolate chip cookie recipe! ▢ 1 cup salted butter softened ▢ 1 cup granulated sugar ▢ 1 cup light brown sugar packed ▢ 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract ▢ 2 large eggs ▢ 3 cups all-purpose flour ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda ▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder ▢ 1 teaspoon sea salt ▢ 2 cups chocolate chips (14 oz) Instructions Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line three baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. In a medium bowl mix flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Cream together butter and sugars until combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla until light (about 1 minute). Mix in the dry ingredients until combined. Add chocolate chips and mix well. Roll 2-3 Tablespoons (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets. Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-10 minutes. Take them out when they are just barely starting to turn brown. Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack. These are so good and adding half semi sweet half milk chocolate chips is perfect. Easy to make and always a crowd pleaser, because lord knows you make a crowd very displeased

[@DeadVoxel]

This! Art is a whole process, not just the result. What AI bros care about is just the "pretty" result that isn't even pretty at all. Art is one's self-expression, it's something where, you observe something and then translate it onto a canvas, it's something you can pull out of your imagination and make it real, make it exist. It's something you have 100% control over, and you can pick and choose which textures you want, what details you want, what colors you want, the line thickness, the style, the meaning, the emotion, the feeling, the atmosphere, the story, the pose/poses, the landscape, etc. It's such a lengthy and truly beautiful process, as you watch your imagination manifest in real life (albeit through a still picture and/or an animation). THAT is the beauty of art. And while the people who view your art may not know any of that process, even an outside person can tell how much effort and thought you put into your work, how passionate you are about it, and even see how lively it is. With AI, none of that applies, none of that exists, it's just a still image of something that has no author, no passion, no life, nothing. You can only really appreciate art if you understand it, if you understand the whole point of its existence. The AI enthusiasts seem to lack any understanding of art, therefore either claiming that it's also a form of art (which it isn't), or disregarding art and artists altogether It's so incredibly hard to explain to them how AI is harmful to the art community, and how it cannot be art, but they just won't listen... It's as if every explanation goes right over their head, no matter how detailed or simple that explanation is

[@anymousecandraw]

"that chair you're probably sitting in right now required at least one designer to draft up the idea for the finished product. you're welcome." me siting on the floor:

[@ThatOneChaos]

Me sitting on the toilet:

[@acupofchamomile]

honestly same lol

[@Cardinal_claw]

Your house required a designer, probably an architect. Cities also require designing, the modern toilets too lol Basically everything functional had to be designed at some point, even if actual art tends more towards entertainment and visual things

[@gankgoat8334]

Me with a family that has decent carpentry skills.

[@Carboy45]

Me laying on a pull out

[@percydoeseverything]

I think it's amazing what we can do with AI but at the same time I don't think we should solely rely upon it.. What happens to the actual artists out there if everything is just AI? Nah, AI is fun to play around with, but I wouldn't want it to just be that.

[@acupofchamomile]

exactly - it always annoys me whenever i see someone degrading human artists and wanting AI to completely replace the arts without even realizing that art takes up so much of our daily lives 😓AI can be useful in certain scenarios but it shouldn't be overused to the point where it could completely overtake an entire industry

[@darkfoxxbunyip]

"What happens to the actual artists out there?" Rounded up and put on an island in the Pacific. No, of course nothing will happen to artists, they can still art all to their heart's content. The invention of the fishing net and the fish store didn't prevent people from still sitting at the side of the water with their pole, the invention of the internal combustion didn't mean the end of horse riding as a concept, the invention of the loom didn't end all knitting and handwork. You can still do the thing, despite the existence of machines that can also do the thing.

[@KATinBLACK]

People be thinking AI will replace artists, until I tell em memes are art and AI sucks at making memes 😂

[@jackblades90]

for now

[@DataDrain02]

For some reason, I just remembered that Veggie Tales episode.... "Computer, tell a joke." "Why did the chicken cross the road? (Electronic whirling noises) Weed eater."

[@fritt_wastaken]

What?.. The best memes I've seen last year were AI memes. And it's getting better

[@pillarmenn1936]

@@fritt_wastaken The only one I can remember of note is Gumbo Slice and the Disney ones. Beyond that, 'natural' memes are still dominant.

[@ReeeReee-hr8gf]

@@DataDrain02 someone get this guy a metal

[@professionalaccount8012]

I had a tech-douche fake a commission for me only before I sent the preview to send me some janky AI image creation [it's not art and I refuse to call it that. Art is Human Intent.] And they tried to act all mighty being like "If it isn't half as good as this, I might as well report you for false advertising. You might as well give me it for free at this point because you Lose." I told them that if they want to be shunned from other commission takers by posting their AI generation that they are beyond free to, but I refuse to sell to someone who uses AI to threaten artists out of their jobs through direct threats, let alone trying to get a 5$ sketch for free. It was so sad that they couldn't afford a 5$ sketch with discounted rendering that I just blocked them after to avoid their embarrassment.

[@acupofchamomile]

this is super late but i'm sorry that happened to you, that is legit insane wtf

[@cameronguzman-keller477]

Imagine being so broke that you can’t afford a $5 sketch commission and so you try to threaten/belittle artists to get a free commission💀💀💀 what a loser, I’m sorry you had to deal with that!

[@FeroxBestia]

They sound pathetic

[@DragesNolya]

Have a social media i can reach out to you on? Id love to see your style and maybe commission some telegram stickers!

[@professionalaccount8012]

@DragesNolya I appreciate the outreach: I'm currently taking a commission break for mental health's sake. (And at this point, to avoid people as mentioned), Please do consider getting commissions from your locals/friends!

[@ichbinben.]

I messed around with ai "art" before, and while some of the pictures it gave me inspired some new ideas, idea generation isn't really something I struggle with. In fact, I already have more ideas than I'll ever be able to actually do anything with. But after watching this video, I decided to try it again. I wanted the ai to generate a picture of a character I had come up with long ago, as a child in fact. A woman who was a Robin Hood-esque rebel with long red hair, green eyes, pale skin, dressed in green and brown medieval men's clothes and fighting with bow and arrow. The one thing the ai refused to do was to dress her in masculine clothes, no matter how I phrased it. It always gave her a dress. Plus it had no idea how a bow works, beyond it being a curved piece of wood with a string, so the string was either hanging down, only tied to one end of the bow, magically floating next to the bow, or just swinging through the air like a whip. And in one picture, she held the bow and arrow somewhat accurately, but the arrowhead pointed at her! Maybe it's just the free ai "art" generators being crap, but I'm not going to pay art thieves just to find out if the paid ai "art" is any better.

[@honoiki3778]

You must've used some shitty AI. You can do a lot more for free, especially if you have the hardware

[@kaelis1]

paid ai's dont have these problems lol, also ai art is only gonna get better

[@evanxss]

@@kaelis1 AI art is the equivalent of a shitty dollar store that'll only sell you cheap replicas of a product from a giant, neglectful database with no emotion put in whatsoever. Its demand, including paid AI services, is deficient and available to everyone. It'll get better on a surface level, sure, but I heavily doubt it'll reach anything more than an inspiration-booster

[@callyral]

​​@@kaelis1actually it can get worse if more people use it as it will start training on its own output. also, why would someone pay for image generating AI? it's a lot more reliable to commission an artist instead.

[@kaelis1]

@@callyral paying a few dollars one time, or even on a subscription for someones infinite ideas to be at the click of a button, is a lot more appetising to a lot of people rather then commissions, I dont think ai art is as ethical as it can be but truth is people find ai tools useful and will use them, so there's no point trying to discourage it

[@thatonedrainedplatter5421]

Ngl I take from ai art with no remorse- like with a person I’d feel guilty and not do it but if it’s not real then you’ll catch me staring. Not like character designs but just the way they place things and I learn from the way it does rendering. Perhaps the poses too because it’s just fun to play around. I also get inspiration sometimes as well.

[@acupofchamomile]

that's valid - tbh going forward i might study it for rendering as well (and it can be useful for inspiration too!)

[@enderguardian7443]

⁠@@acupofchamomileai art has stupidly good rendering, it’s awful at the basics but still

[@starlightfree]

I have serious trouble designing outfits for my characters and when i used AI i managed to get some ideas on what kind of outfit i wanted to make. Picking the best pieces of each drawing to make what i really wanted. I think AI can be a great tool for references or ideas generations, but no replacement for real artist.

[@WwZa7]

This is the only way I can see those AI even being useful at all, nothing but an inspiration machine for rough concepts when you're completely out of ideas. They are horrible as references, and should never be used as such, but they can give you rough concept of composition and coloring.

[@mangosday]

Great job with the redesigns! My favorite's the first one. I've also been saving AI stuff on pinterest with plans to redraw them like how you have. It almost feels good to know real artists can take back from it since it can't be copyrighted. Side note: I've seen AI accounts have the "do not steal, do not repost" line in their bio that artists usually have. And the audacity shows a serious lack of self-awareness and critical thinking skills.

[@acupofchamomile]

thank you!! ⭐ and i agree, it's kinda fun taking back from AI art lol. (also the fact that AI accounts are trying to watermark their AI generations to pass them off as their own is literally so insane to me 😵‍💫)

[@victinitron2000]

COMPLETELY agree, although i felt my eyes roll back into my skull when i read the phrase "critical thinking skills" 💀 it's been thrown around so much online that it's kinda lost all its meaning

[@n8pls543]

@@victinitron2000It still means exactly what it says, you just have to ignore the sort of people who find and latch onto "win the argument phrases" and throw them in your face while demonstrating their general lack of literacy. I'm pretty sure with how everyone uses the internet, _every_ phrase gets thrown around so much online.

[@voidmain7902]

> I've seen AI accounts have the "do not steal, do not repost" line in their bio that artists usually have. And the audacity shows a serious lack of self-awareness and critical thinking skills. Hot take: Anti-AI persons who "steal" from AI images also lack self awareness because they indirectly "scrapes" and "steals" from all the artists they thought that were on their side, no matter how they want to claim how much more morally superior they are. Not that there's really anything wrong with "scraping" and AI alone though. This kind of thought that "stealing from AI is morally right" also directly proves it. Of course grifters of any form should be laughed at but from what I see quite a lot of people are just posting because they found a new toy, and sadly those ended up gets treated by the mobs the same way as the grifters (or be fed those "AI is theft" nonsense without any context whatsoever) and I don't like it.

[@hybridizedhere]

I remember on occasion using ai to generate an image of an idea i couldn’t visualize properly, which is where its use shines through the most for me. I have so many ideas and so many of them fall dead because i just cant put it on paper. Now me and my friends just generate outfit ideas with chat gpt whenever i cant come up with a proper idea for character designs, i find the descriptions better than the janky outfits that made no sense when trying to make something cohesive

[@quit3118]

I use ChatGTP as a tool to help come up with some concepts for my writing or fanfiction But I do come up with most stuff in my head and write myself

[@Lilyofthevalley908.]

People who use ai art aill never know the true feeling of accomplishment with that type of art. They will not feel truly proud and will never know how good it feels to create your own.

[@minyanr]

i mean honestly stealing from a thief just feels like karma :-) loved watching u shade clothing! may i ask what program u use for screen recording and editing your videos? felt rly inspired by ur speeddraws lol

[@acupofchamomile]

thank you!! i use OBS for screen recording and DaVinci Resolve for my editing ✨ i used to use iMovie but there's only so much you can do with it so I made the switch last year lol

[@RetroRoarKnight]

ai art generators arent thieves but ok

[@RiverNihilation]

That essay line hit hard since in my college most of my class mates would use ai to fetch info for their report which annoyed me to hell and back since they already have the time and INFINITE VOID levels of information to digest in a way that is easier depending on people and if there is a go to sight. But then there's people that would just ctrl C the search results from an ai generator which gives me the most crap eating grin when i make a satifying report just through my research. Also fire art really has me wanna learn the fundamentals but I'm on a trip

[@MythicPalette]

As an artist, I do this all the time. I've snagged so many AI made images from pinterest. It's great, easy practice to "fix" AI art and I don't have to worry about posting my version because, LOL, you can't copyright your AI art.

[@RiriTokisaki]

When ai steals from artists i think its perfectly fine to steal from ai, some may disagree but no matter what its too late to STOP ai artists now. Some will agree and disagree but i think it should be fine too. AI art has no intention or meaning behind any of it, Just trained of thousands of artists work,so why not. Of course thats just imo

[@SlibPlayz]

I’m an artist who seeks to improve my art, and to see that AI could in fact replace artists that work really hard on their art work is annoying, and I read the comments in this comment section and I agree with just all comments I saw so far. I’m just going to keep this short, but I agree with you when you say that AI art is not good when used for the wrong reason (like when you stated AI art is stealing from real artists).

[@Telhias]

Step 1: Copy AI art. Step 2: Copyright your new piece. Step 3: Sue the original for infringement. Step 4: Profit!

[@voidmain7902]

??? By this logic anyone can claim any public domain works.

[@Telhias]

​@@voidmain7902 I don't know if you realize but it is done quite commonly. There are plenty of book resellers that sell you public domain works for profit. If you include adaptations (which copying AI work would fall under) then Disney is the king of claiming public works as their own. It happens to the point of Disney causing trouble to others wishing to adapt those works (like Snow White for example).

[@voidmain7902]

​@@Telhias Disney have the rights on **their specific version of Snow White**. They don't have rights on Snow White as a whole. Also selling public domain works for profit doesn't mean they hold copyright on the works itself. Is this hard to understand? You can't claim public domain works, nor somebody elses' AI-generated stuff (which are not copyrightable for good reasons), as your own and sue them for infringement, period. You have no idea how copyright law works.

[@helyphion]

I'll be honest, as an artist myself I think "replacing artists is bad" isn't _really_ a valid argument, on a surface level. Replacing all art with AI-made art _is_ a problem in my opinion, because AI art has no intention or meaning, and only looks visually pleasing on a surface level as well. Parts of that could be improved with further development, but if you've ever zoomed in on the details of any AI art you know how confusing and unstructured it is. So in my opinion AI art isn't bad because human artists spend so much time developing their skills and it's unfair to develop a machine that does the same thing (although I fully understand why many artists feel personally upset about that, even if it's not really an objectively useful argument), but instead because AI is genuinely just... bad at making meaningful and comprehensible art, and it'd be very sad to see that take over the majority of the human pursuit of art. And there is of course the whole moral issue with training AI with real artists' work without permission, which also makes me dislike its more widespread usage. Sorry about the absolute text wall, I have some thoughts about this topic, so TL;DR: In my opinion the worst part about AI art is that it's meaningless and obviously carelessly made, which anyone who looks at it for more than a few second can see. It's sad to see this get so popular, because those people who genuinely love AI art obviously barely even look at said "art".

[@infiniteraide1642]

Took the words out of my mouth. All I could say is that it should be used as nothing more but reference for real artists (like beginners) to use and practice drawing with. It could even be used as inspiration for different poses, character designs, that sort of thing but NEVER the final product

[@vampybyte7812]

I use Ai art for this specific purpose, to give me a different perspective as Ai tends to be over the top with accessories and clothing I myself wouldn't of thought of for the character I describe. But that's really it, i also use Chat gpt in a similar manor, brainstorm ideas (Usually this ends in me fighting with the bot over semantics) I do have an undiagnosed disorder that makes it hard to focus on ideas/ think of ideas on my own. I put a lot of work into the final pieces I make with the inspo and I still value actual artists and still try to learn with out it. But if I get stuck it's a nice tool to go back to, though I only use free versions for like a day then don't use the generators for like 2-3 months.

[@dumass804]

One question that's interesting to ask in this discussion is how do people get the inspiration for new designs and art pieces in the first place? Isn't that also just taking in their surroundings, life experiences and looking at other people's art? All of which they didn't have to put any effort into? Ai may look at a higher volume of art, but it's still the same process, it's just more basic because it only draws from 1 source (the internet) whereas people draw inspiration from many places whether that's conscious or subconscious. Should artists not be allowed to draw anything if it takes inspiration from other art? Is it the process of making the art itself the important part? If so, are you really creating it yourself? When i draw a picture on paper, I'm moving a pencil (a tool) to create an impression on the paper and form an image. When i use ai to create an image, i also use a tool (keyboard) to input information into an algorithm creates an image, taking inspiration from other artworks. Why does the type of tool and the time taken to produce the image matter? We can say that it's the fact that it's drawing inspiration from other artists without their permission that's the issue, but again, doesn't every other artist already do this - whether it's conscious or not? Another question to ask is what is art? It seems like such a vague concept. Would coding be considered artistic expression in the same way writing is as long as one puts "effort" and "soul" into it? In that case isn't the algorithm itself a type of art? If art requires intended meaning, then how can we prove the creators were lacking in it? And what about people who commission art? Did they intend any meaning being the art? Is it now not considered art because they didn't create it to express anything, but rather because they're being paid to draw specific lines and fill them in with specific colours? Don't misunderstand, I'm not arguing for or against ai art being morally good or bad, I'm just asking questions that i think are interesting around the issue. I don't really have an opinion on the matter overall. But it would be interesting to hear replies to these questions from the perspectives of artists

[@ennope9005]

I think the main difference is that when a human wants to copy something they always end up making mistakes or adding their own touch or something, but an ai can just pull up the original image So if a human makes something they always end up adding something new But if an ai makes something it can't really do that

[@archangel3076]

copying ai art isn't some kinda "revenge". it is just what artist should do. ai gives you an idea and you use it. that's it. why everyone has radical opinions about this simple matter?

[@shanichamachan6036]

Fear monger tactic I'd say.. Ai is just another teacher for me..

[@Ethetjorsa]

Maybe because people are scamming others with Ai "art", and it is stealing from artists. Btw it's best we call it Ai generated images instead, since Ai "art" isn't actual art.

[@lukitasdrimo]

since these last few years, I think we collectively did a backflip onto the concrete on our way of thinking about AI art There's just no semblance of critical thinking in anything that people say about it nowadays

[@avocado-my6ob]

OMG THIS SHUD BE A TREND!!! I wanna see other artists do it too

[@ferdikadatu687]

I already do it to and really satisfied and laught of it. It just make my style become better thank you for ai programmer to make this tool.😂😂😂

[@necrosteel5013]

I always use AI pictures as bases for drawing stuff just to make posing, cloth folds among various things easier. It's just fun to use, especially when it's warped a lot like for drawing humanoid monsters like zombies.

[@Dingus_Khaan]

language model-generated images (I refuse to call it "AI art" because it is _not_ art, and it is _not_ made by an actual artificial intelligence) should be there to give human artists an easier means of getting reference for very specific things, not as a full-on replacement of artists. It's just like how robots can help with a worker's efficiency but not outright replace them. A wise and measured application can be beneficial, but going all-in on it will incur the age-old problem of "too much of a good thing", and techbros have a real nasty habit of going all-in on the next big thing. Language models, electric cars, virtual reality, 3d-printing, smart devices, etc.

[@davekachel]

People that use AI instead of buying or commission art used to take random pictures from google without paying or giving credit. Nobody stepped down from this, the non-industrial art industry is safe as heck.

[@cursedcat7878]

Finally using this excuse of techonlogy how it's was first intended To inspire ACTUALL artists (also your artstyle is lovely, please keep it up)

[@acupofchamomile]

thank you!! ✨ and yeah, AI art can be useful for inspiration but that's about it 😅 still, it's interesting to see what you can take away from it and include in your own style!

[@Follower_Of_The_Onions]

"hOw dArE yOu! copy my art I will sue you" - said the AI "Artist" who got his/her/heicopter data set sample from another artist.

[@HyperDevv]

-said no ai bro ever

[@emubeepboop]

ahhh I remember seeing some of those on pinterest too. the problem is that once I saved a few ai pieces all my recommended pins turned into ai and now I can't even find a background reference that isn't actually ai when I look up close. also I thought the last person was a lady/non-binary from the ai images it's interesting how even with the same inspiration artists can come out with different designs and conclusion

[@McPoof]

i copied ai art this morning and it was so helpful seeing how it renders texture on skin

[@hydri271]

One of my character has literally the exact same hairstyle as the last one, just a different color, horns too lol. Cool art and nice video! Just found your channel ^^

[@acupofchamomile]

omg that's amazing 😂 i'll most likely change up his design in the future though if i keep him as a character (also thank you!! ⭐)

[@carly7048]

Loved this first video so I’ll stay on your road for 1k and more amazing art for you to be upcoming .. but there is one thing about ai is scaring me I love art so much and I just got my iPad mini so I told myself I’m gonna start to draw but ai is getting more advanced year by year and I’m so scared that it would maybe one day take over the only thing I care about art and art that I wanna do as my job it’s all I ever wanted to do and I also have an issue where I always get distracted by something instead of drawing 😭

[@chiannsmith6803]

Yay a true artist that gets it! I like doing the same thing with AI art! I'm a self taught artist who learned on my own for several years, and I often study human or self made (i.e. posing dolls or self modelling) refs to get even better, but one problem I often have is getting the detailed and often complicated ideas and vibes I have in mind for my character, and getting them ONTO paper! AI made this much less stressful! The advantage of them not being copyrighted, the fact that I usually take a minimum of 6 photos I really liked based on my prompt, and the fact that I still draw my own characters with their own final design, color palette and structure, means that by the end of it, it's so far detached from anything I've ever seen, and so much like what I envisioned, that I'm happier after! Sure, I hear the Anti-AI folks, "what did you do before AI, huuuhhh?". I googled. I googled for 7+ hours, had a mental breakdown, and then enlisted my friend who works as a backend dev for Google, to help. Yeah. Sure, my designs before AI are still on par with my ones now, I just don't stress as hard not finding references that resemble the fuzzy image in my mind's eye. I can MAKE things that look like that fuzzy image in my mind's eye!! "But AI just makes composites of other people's art" yeah and? I'm not passing AI as my own art, I DRAW MY OWN SHIT, and how is that a bad thing in my case? If one image is a composite of say, 10 images, and I reference 6 AI images I really like outfit elements of, then at the end of the day, I'm referencing 60 photos am I not? Seems like a handy way to cut down googling for references for an eternity and just get what I truly want. Heck, it's not even the only way I do things anymore! Nowadays I can feed avatar dolls I make on a petsite as refs into an AI and get FURTHER personalized images to what I want! TL:DR best use of AI art and finally a fellow artist with nuance Edit: also I'm not rigidly pro AI either. AI bros piss me off because they have NO spacial awareness of what it's to be used for! Like, wtaf how can you be so tone deaf to think this replaces humans? The images I generate, for instance, have no sense of personality, depth, or 'character' to be seen. While this flaw works to my benefit (I pretty much only steal their clothes >:3), it's baffling to me how these guys see designs so vapid and think "yeah this is better than humans" like bruh 😂. Until I inject the human elements into whatever AI sections I referenced (Clothes, maybe a hairstyle, usually clothes tho) such as color palette, pose, the characters actual personality showing through their facial expression, the fact that I CAN DRAW HANDS, suddenly it's far more human than the AI images I may have tore bits from. The fact that it takes a human to make them good should make their purpose obvious

[@Bencurlis]

I think you are making great points, the premise of the video is funny and your art is really good! Unfortunately, as a person working in the AI field, I think I can safely say that big tech will find a way to train these image generators without relying on "art theft" if they have to anyways. They might pay artists to create specialized training databases, they might also get good results using only user judgements of generated images. Another thing is that they probably have a massive amount of AI user generated images by now, and that is probably all that is necessary to train new generations of image generators. I am not sure if in this case it can still be considered stealing from artists, on one hand the images were generated using AI that itself used protected material, but on the other hand the generated images are not themselves protected, as you noted. And so this means that artists will still be threatened by these AIs in the future, even if they win on the copyright front.

[@devonteedwards2093]

This is really cool, I've done the same thing with the ai art and drawing it in my style

[@acupofchamomile]

thank you! 🌠 it's an interesting experience seeing your own drawings side by side with the original AI images; i might actually study some more images going forward to see how my current style can benefit from it (even though it is AI art lol)

[@devonteedwards2093]

@@acupofchamomile can't wait to see it

[@Beeeeeewwwww]

This is a great idea. Ai art should be used for taking inspiration or just talking back lol. Still can't believe people are selling ai on diviant art.

[@anikanamisu2456]

Can't believe you didn't name reindeer kid "Duul Dien Shonky"

[@acupofchamomile]

i really should have tbh 🤣

[@zamboozle3741]

sometimes when i'm bored but also in the mood to design new ocs, i'll dig through deviantart ai adopts and lift the designs for myself

[@birubu]

You know what? I count this as an intended use of AI art. Use it to visualize a concept, before refining it by hand with your own style, skill, and effort.

[@thejester2751]

The deer kid looks like he would a hella sick Cryo character from Genshin impact. Ur art is amazing totally subbing!!

[@briw7494]

keep it up!! i just pray that one day Artists will get the credit we all deserved!!

[@vvslendervv2056]

What program are you using to draw?

[@remor698]

My personal favorite of these would have to be the second one, both because anything even remotely headed in a mechanical fantasy direction is right up my alley and because of how well your take on the gold patterns on his coat turned out. In the AI image, those just looked like a mess of extra detail while you managed to make those details work and stand out in a way I don't understand for a lack of artistic expertise, but is just really nice to look at regardless. Also, for the third character, the AI seems to have attempted giving him something small and dangly on a string to hold in its second image. Pair that with your increased focus on his relation to candles and I'd say his powers could well be a hypnotizing control over those small flames, used subtly. Basically don't get in a 1 on 1 conversation with this guy, especially not near candlelight, or you will find yourself ending up with a deal that very much favors him. A combination of a charismatic businessman and the whole deal with the devil trope - works with his horns as well.

[@muffinconsumer4431]

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend of AI generated images actually starting to stunt the new generation of artists. They see themselves as being raised for a future that will not be their own.

[@Tam-Ezrac]

Another thing Ai Image generators *can* help with, are for people who *physically* can’t do art like people with disabilities or old age or really anyone who can’t experience the joy of creating for whatever reason +the things you mentioned, are really the only positives humanity could take from this.

[@youbetterstanloona6717]

This is still a partially invalid argument. I've seen plenty of disabled people who pursued art despite their disabilities. People who had 4 of their limbs completely gone and using their MOUTH to draw. In my opinion, The creativity and inspiration to draw comes to those who pursues it constantly. AI generators are never ethical due to the reason that it's database is comprised of stolen art.

[@Tam-Ezrac]

@@youbetterstanloona6717 Oh don’t worry, I (99%) agree with you, I know there are people who even draw with their feet, or who put down giant canvases and do action(?) painting on it. I mostly added the initial argument as a sort of “devil’s advocate” +not wanting to accidentally de-humanize people who use AI “casually”, but I don’t view Image generators as “good” for humanity as a whole, in all sense if the words. Also sorry if my comments sound “preachy”

[@mon-jp8jt]

This is so good! I hope it becomes a trend actually. Such a clever way to one-up on that AI bs

[@DoveJS]

🧶 The braid guy would be cool as an antagonist shapeshifting dragon with power over shadows or something. I suspect his AI art references came from photos of Ouji style garments so try looking up that term if you want more inspo for him (I was doing references on pumpkin shorts a few months ago and stumbled onto this.) The deer boy is the little brother of a friend that crow girl makes along the way. He's IMHO a bit like Mordecai from Lackadaisy Cats lol just less intense and more goofy. Crow girl might be a magical girl; could be an angel but I prefer the idea she's a genius with bird traits. Maybe she's actually a harpy? I like to think they share a hobby and he's mad inspired by her, looks up to her and asks her for advice, which is why they hang out even though he's very introverted normally (also he feels out of place with other kids in his age group ofc.) He's super serious but young while she's very knowledgeable and focused on her goals but a bit ditzy and just as easily flustered as deer boy. They get along great! Except for when they fight lol. Could also be interesting if it turns out deer boy has a heel face turn but could also be nifty if crow girl has a heel face turn instead. However, she feels like she'd be a MC before he would so idk. Her design was probably garbled together from Rin Tohsaka of Fate Stay Night (I suspect one of her head wings is based on Rin's hair bows) so you could get inspo from there too. Also, what if for deer boy you only had the brown as a warm color while everything else is cool? Could be interesting but you may have tried that already. Anyway those are just my random thoughts!

[@ibahibut]

Process of making art is fun! No matter how pain it is! But still worth it! Like a quote from John Wick 3 movie "Art is pain, life is suffering". Well, it depends on how you interpret it. Overall, 'AI art don't have that soul...all i see its like too perfection! Too complete. We artist do make some mistakes and there's a time we leave our art not to complete because it looks beautiful already. Its how we tell and convey our story & feelings in art. Nowadays, quantity than quality and I'm tired of it. We're not a machine, we breathe and we learn. Mistakes? Everyone makes mistakes, get back up, do it again. Life is an art too. Anyway, fuck the 'AI' art!

[@Vineethajojo]

When life gives you lemon,you make lemonade

[@lisaeggrolls]

im in lovee the deer boy looks like a mix of albedo benette and sucrose from genshin its adorablee his outfit is so much like albedos

[@thealchemist7843]

I like this, you should make this a series

[@hl_-mg4uw]

8:22 . I'm actually writing my argumentative essay about AI art. Of course, not using AI to write it, just thought it was a little funny. And about the topic of AI copying art works, I am wanting to go to art college and pursue art as a career. My classes are set up around that idea in mind and I haven't seen any work that is similar to my art style. My art style which includes brightest colors known to man kind, sharp lines, and generally not an anime style or anything similar.

[@Saber64]

I like the bird lady the most. Reindeer kid kinda gives me some genshin vibes like he could come out of Fontaine. Maybe with a cryo vision.

[@SkyeTheDemon]

I think the things that AI can do in the technological/scientifical fields are astonishing in their own rights, but putting this into the art world scares me greatly as someone going to college to eventually get into this field more seriously (i've loved drawing/doing art since I was young and it hasn't been a drive that has quite died so). But I will say while i'm SUPER iffy on its place in the art world as references / testing things on their own-- I do think it has uses in SOME parts those being the example of how the Spiderverse animation team uses it to estimate/guess where lines would be then adjusting/cleaning it up after the fact. I again, am super iffy on this because the way they go about this still requires the artists themselves, and it's meant to make the process easier. But I personally also get worried about teaching AI how to do these things for fear of them taking the job if they happen to bed fed and taught well enough. This is just my own silly-ish thoughts on the topic though, overall adored the concepts that you did with each redesign of these characters and I think it'd be a nice trend to redesign clear AI art generations me thinks :3c

[@hamachable]

I am very concerned about the adoption of AI in technological/scientific fields, as it displaces scientists who are involved in development and makes training of junior staff unnecessary. But I’m okay with AI replacing artists, since they are not particularly important for the development of humanity. (My example was your illustration of the double standard that most artists express). This is the reason why I moved from a position of defending artists to defending AI in the creative professions.

[@n_tfair]

ive just found your channel and im obsessed.

[@A_GOLDENCHILD_.]

ur art is honestly gorgeous 😭🫶

[@acupofchamomile]

thank you!! 💫

[@MagdalenaMantler]

I really thought about doing this ("stealing AI art and interpret it new") for some time now. XD Glad you did it, nice drawings. While watching the video something popped off in my head: What if start showing people the positive things about creating and what you as a human being get out of it (growth, experience, becoming steady, decluttering your mind...) so people get more interested in starting drawing than using AI... sorry I cannot really describe the thoughts that popped up. I just thought about PewDiPie and his 100 days art journey and what he GAINED by learning to draw. AI art might be interesting for the moment, but in the long run, people will get fed of it and will realize it's not gonna give them much somehow and start to explore again what it means to do things with your own hands again... at least I hope.

[@KuroNeko0828]

This was my sign to get some chamomile tea. Love the name btw 😍

[@Brenilla]

Anyone who thinks art is impossible to reach without pain and efforts or is useless, needs to see how prehistoric humans did art… like lots of it. The cave ones are especially pertinent since they were in dim lamp light and they look that great… If prehistory people who fend for their lives as hunters and gatherers can do it in dim light conditions on a wall with no prievious help from artists already existing you can too.

[@markus8230]

The big problem with all this AI war is, that i dont see what the goal of it is. I'm a software developer, i dont have much to do with AI especially "art ai" yet. But also in my field, software developement, AI is becomeing better and better at doing what right now is still my job. Yet i think pushing againt it would not help me, like every techonology, once its here, it stays. Until it gets replaced by something better. So what i do in my field and what i would suggest to artists, is to explore the possibilities that these technologies provide and see if it can improve your work. If Ai can generate something decent, then what could an ai do in the hands of a very skillfull artist. Thats how i see it. And maybe you have concerns in terms of moral issues, i understand that, in that case maybe only explore it for yourself and dont make profit out of it. But the legal and moral siede, is only a issue as long as its unclear what training data has been used. But im pretty sure there will be a point where an ai model will be createt that solely consists of images from consenting artists.

[@HeloFromStrangerc]

I originally thought there were only three ways that it would be okay for you to trace art You got permission The art was yours (something you made or commissioned) Or if the traced art was personal and never got posted But theres actually a fourth one If its AI art, because AI cant be copyrighted. :)

[@Mintcandies]

I love how you made something actually great and creative from something that is literally stolen and blended up art monstrosity.

[@RosyKitteh]

I regularly use AI art for a reference. I’m working on a drawing right now actually. I would never make AI art and post it and say “ta-da! I did this!” But it helps me get ideas just like taking pictures of my favorite manga does

[@Xenotork]

Using AI to create very specific and tailored references for character design is a big help. but don't immediately take that and post it online. Go over the refference and itterate on it in your own artistic way. It no longer becomes an issue especially if handled properly.

[@alexia3552]

Honestly if you can use AI to craft the framework of an essay and then polish it to make it make sense, you've just used a tool. If you continue to have access to that tool, you could even use it in your professional life. Note the caveats -- when will you not have access to this tool? Does practicing drafting essays from scratch help you learn how to structure arguments, so that you can make yourself verbally understood on the spot? When you're not being graded or playing sports, results are mainly what matters. This does NOT mean it's okay to hurt people or rip them off, I just mean if a language predictor helps you write some of the broad strokes of an essay first to save time, it ultimately doesn't matter. You _are_ cheating yourself out of developing a skill if you rely *exclusively* on using that tool. It's not super fun to make it into adulthood and realize you lack a solid grasp on certain forms of self-expression, but there's no requirement that you must be all-or-nothing on using any given tool of any kind. Just because you've microwaved pizza rolls before doesn't mean it's now impossible to cook them in the oven, or vice versa.

[@Sheesh7328]

I remember I used to be so bad at drawing people thought it was ai generated

[@naraku971]

I am going to give one quick nitpick about the saying saying it has no place, I think it does have a place IF you build YOUR own generator, know how to code, and train your generator entirely on your work, you can build something that can put out a half way decent product with as little as ten images, and if your editing skills are great with an eye for design, and proper training skills (I've done my fair share of picture editing for school) you can fill in the gaps on your own. I do know someone who has done just that, (built and trained a generator entirely on her work). The biggest downfall as she relayed to me after talking with her for weeks was her the buying of Ram (1k worth of it), because starting her generator up initially resulted in it deleting itself after a month and her having to retrain it again, and she could only feed her generator 30 images at a time, once she bought the 1k worth of Ram, she had little to no issues as far as I am understanding and presuming that what she is telling me is indeed correct. This person in question has well over a thousand images in her deviantart gallery, so there's plenty of images for her to feed into her generator, and after having followed her since 2018, I recognize the elements and pieces that her generator is taking inspiration from in order to build the designs that she is generating, partially because I purchased a few of those original designs that she drew herself and weren't generated. Should it be used as a full on replacement? No, I think even if you create and train a generator on solely your art, you should always draw, you'd stagnate without doing so. If you like, I can put you in contact with this person, she's not terribly hard to get a hold of, and she's a very polite person who is typically open for discussion about things she's passionate about.

[@koiyin]

Artists should band together and post terrible art to mess up the generators which feed from their content. Also, copy them! You get free character designs, and they get to get angry over the fact that you're stealing their stolen content.

[@sniper201minecr]

well for me, I see AI art as a tool I could use to improve myself and like old artist in the back of the day they use every tool they have to improve themselves. Because sometimes we all have some art block, can’t think what to draw so at least this can basically remove that art block from us and we can still practice for our drawing.

[@victorthecollector9198]

If you have a thing for waistcoats you should watch Tiger & Bunny, a superhero anime about washed up veteran hero Wild Tiger (aka Kotetsu T. Kaburagi), and hotshot rookie hero Barnaby Brooks Jr. being forced to team up and learning to become a functional duo. Main character wears a waistcoat and he is also a DILF

[@InjuredMuffin2]

I feel like people who are trying to replace artists with AI just don't care about making something unique. I don't mind AI, or artists using AI as part of their working process (In fact, I use AI myself as part of my process when need be,) my issue is with people who post AI images and either post the raw, unedited image, or straight up try to pass it off as their own work, if someone goes in and fixes up the AI artifacts, or even better, put their own spin on it, at least there was effort put into that, I can respect that. The best use of AI in my opinion is to fill in gaps in your ability while you learn to improve in that specific thing you struggle with, I struggle with outfit design, so I get a bunch of AI images of the style I am going for, and mix and match different aspects to get as close to what my idea was as possible. Another great use of AI is for placeholders in your work, I have no experience with music creation, I can't make good music even if my life depended on it, AI music generators are great for placeholder music to get the feeling across (in my case that would be a game prototype.) keyword: Placeholder. the final product would obviously benefit greatly from a professionally composed soundtrack that fits the specific product, but for a prototype, AI generated placeholders of anything work fine, no one is about to spend hundreds or even thousands potentially on a prototype of something when you can't guarantee it going any further.

[@TanukiYvvki]

once in a while i'll put my own art into AI just so I can see how it colors the clothing because sometimes I'm not sure where the lighting would go

[@Silentjay.]

i used ai art on this deep ai image generator then i recreate it and add to it along with using it as guidelines for my art hoping one day i won’t need it!

[@sandycolours641]

Great video... I'd like to note that I think calling it 'art' is generous I know a lot of people use air quotes but I think a better term is AI generated images. (even though the term AI by itself is wrong anyway :/) Art suggests a creative PROCESS and that's what the AI stuff completely lacks.

[@Nobody-uw8we]

How do you draw so good??

[@LewNeko]

My guess is that the point of what people say AI will replace every isn't what is currently being produced today, but rather the higher quality ones you can't tell. I want to say that I agree that AI isn't going to take over the art industry, after all, a really good artist capable of drawing real life scenes would've given up the moment cameras came out, it's about what is produced as much as it is the stuff behind what produced it. The story of a original character piece, the art style of an artist, the artist themselves, and plenty of other things. So then imagine an AI that didn't make the obvious makes with the hands, proportions in certain areas, or mistakes in logic. It's when you can't tell that the picture is created from a machine stealing from a database of other artists hard work that it gets scary because it provides an alternative that if someone can't tell is illegal, isn't. After all, 'it ain't cheating if you don't get caught'. So when someone takes a keyboard are produces an artist in 30 seconds that would take someone else hours to create, and no one even knows it well, I've already said what I said.

[@soda1master980]

When u said back in 2022 it hit me like a train

[@vanlynn]

I've only used AI art as an idea generator like o I like how fluffy this characters hair is and I like the color scheme of another and I like how the light bounces off another and make my own art

[@MewGirlZ]

Your art is so much more fun than that souless AI generated trash! My favorite of the three is definitely the last guy. Also *Yarn Emoji*

[@LuniIsHere]

I (legally) stolen a AI character desing and made it better

[@acupofchamomile]

i mean where's the lie-

[@Art_and_Ice]

Me when i see a refrence i used an hour ago on pinterest on her ai board :0 oops

[@acupofchamomile]

lolol we must have been on the same wavelength 😂😅

[@bigman7856]

The algorithm has blessed you

[@ixywas]

YES, keep it up please! you are an amazing artist

[@skyeshi3570]

I use AI for references at times for other artists that i hire. But i also use them for tabletop characters when i want something specific and can't afford any artist at the time. The other reason I think people use AI is the cost, i've seen alot of NA artists cost an arm and a leg for something really good, to something mediocre at best. I normally hire artists from asia due to this. I Just think alot of people don't talk about the bloat of some artists prices on western sites

[@Dx_Ach]

tbh, i dont understand why people freak out. I see it more as generating reference on demand and get interesting forced perspectives, concepts, etc. that just help with design flow.

[@jonh101]

Ai arts main bad part is that it has no meaning or intention. You see digital art pieces and they have perspective and emphasis while ai just copies what it sees because it doesnt understand human emotion

[@timbomb374]

I like to set ai generators to be pretty loose so they generate crazy stuff that i can then interoperate and create ideas from

[@RainyLS]

8:29 my english professor told a story of a student who ised AI to write her essay. The professor caught it and offered to let the student rewrite it. She used AI again for some reason and obviously failed.

[@wolfgangamadeus5949]

Hey, I understand how much work you put into the video, but could you try a different way of timelapse? respectfully. I just want to see the art process more... thankyou!!!

[@LillyxTopaz]

I'll be honest...this entire video to me is the perfect of example of the place AI art may have in the future. Reference and inspiration. A tool in a kit, but not the final product, nor a replacement for the skill needed to make said product. It may also be used similarly to how a picture is taken and then heavily edited in photoshop to get a final product. Regardless, AI produces a 'base' that needs alteration and work from skilled individuals, it does not produce 'art' Generally speaking, I strongly disagree with AI models using material that is not within the public domain, however. Models should only be built off the public domain.

[@WwZa7]

The redesigns are really nice, and I am surprised how much you changed, yet it still feels like it has some of that AI illogicality to it's design. For example in the first one, the wing pieces on her hair still don't look neither like hair, antlers, nor wings. The metallic detail on her left arm feels like it doesn't make much sense neither from design nor geometry point of view. What is it's purpose? How is it attached? Where does it start and end? Similarly for the chain on her hip, it doesn't seem to be attached to anything at all. This is by no means criticism of your designs or drawings, I love them, It's just a curious observation that some of the core "design" points within AI generated piece made so little sense, that redrawing them required complete redesign, and they still fell flat. And that was supposed to be originally an AI generated character sheet... Other than flexing on pinterest, such character sheets would be just useless. Tech bros were saying that revolution is right around the corner for over a year and a half, meanwhile not only it hit a brick wall, we get more and more proofs how useless those are for anything than vague inspiration machines.

[@danielvergaray7228]

I love how you use Ai art as a starting ground. I think, In all honesty, that Ai should be used as a starting ground and inspiration.

[@NeoSokioArtz]

I’ll be honest here: I do this a lot, using the AI to get inspiration for characters, scenes n such because my mind goes blank all the time and I struggle to find anything relatively original

[@MonitorLizardGaming]

I hate AI, but it seems impossible to me that AI will completely replace human artwork. It might even encourage us to pursue more meaningful and expressive forms of art, in new mediums - the stuff AI can't do. Traditional art might actually see a revival. Like, AI can't generate an in-person music performance. Also, even if it's at the pixel level, there will always be tiny differences that tell you if it's AI art. Ultimately, AI can be used as an aid to human creativity, but we will always be a step ahead of it. Anyway, this is amazing content, I'm subscribing.

[@anetepaulakrinicka7830]

One time ago at school we needed use only AI to make designs. Spoiler alert: I faked drawings to look like AI, because AI didn't give results what I needed.

[@shiichan32]

i think there have been times where ai art actually took from ai art and created hilarious results

[@batty-bites3185]

as much as i loathe ai and what it's doing to literally everything, i'm glad to see this video so i have also thought of doing something similar to this just for. whatever. but it felt iffy cos not only do i not like copying things but these generated images came from somewhere, from another artists and it just felt. bad. interested to see the interpretations tho. i just wanna make a small comment on whether or not ai has a place in the art industry. YES it can have a place i the art industry bc 'ai' as a whole does not mean 'generated images'. ai is programming computers to do specific tasks, the one ravaging our creative spaces just so happens to be generative imaging. from what i've heard, the artists who worked on 'across the spiderverse' created their own ai model to help them generate their work faster by eliminating the more tedious parts of their tasks and as far as i know, it was created by them and fed info from them and nothing more. the fact that our creative content across the internet is being taken WITHOUT any information, communication, knowledge or consent from the creators PRIOR to scraping it, and also not compensating anyone for their work, is why is such a major issue. everyone has just taken what's not theirs, done whatever they want with it in their ai models and come to us AFTER the fact to say 'oh, well now u can MANUALLY opt out if u want to but ur info has already been fed so. WOOPSIES' imagine if this happened with any other aspect of life. just take people's clothes or cars or money or jobs out from under them or products from stores and then afterwards said 'oh well here's an option to MAYBE get it back or prevent me from taking things in the future but oh well about that stuff u no longer have!'

[@brandi598]

the ai character design stuff rly bothers me bc I've been doing commissions and now my customers will sometimes send me ai images as character references and I always have to explain that I can't really do the design 1 for 1 because the ai drawings are absolute nonsense. Every single time its like a belt that connects to nothing, chains that evolve into nonsensical blobs, fabric that follows no logic, lines that go nowhere. It's awful.