PINTEREST IS DEAD. (artist's rant)

[@afafila]

Pinterest is full of AI slop anywhere you search, it's really saddening

[@wunzewo]

Realp

[@Night_Hover]

It’s terrifying

[@sauzy0]

yeah, been using it for years since 2017 and it never fails to wow me when I see so much AI rubbish when there was so much cool and inspiring content, how the mighty has fallen.

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

AI art isn’t slop

[@DebshankarPathak-hb8tf]

Google searches too are full of AI images.

[@amanda4634]

I’m SO glad someone with a platform is talking about this. It’s been a problem for so long already.

[@Livvvin]

Jouusta made a similar video as well :)

[@Strawberrycandraw]

Viyaura has also talked about this

[@SaintShion]

Yes it can also make new artist overwhelmed, when they think it’s real art, it leads them to believe everyone is so much better than them

[@Deletirium]

It's not just pinterest either- consumer-facing AI has turned massive swaths of the internet into a dungheap of lazy art, music, and video.

[@Livvvin]

@@Deletirium thing about Pinterest is that it’s been such a beloved platform for so many artists for many years so the fact that it’s being polluted with inescapable AI slop is honestly just sad

[@KOsSCARY]

I work in architecture and it effects our work flow so much with clients. for the past year clients come with ai generated interior design, architecture, landscape they found on Pinterest, stuff that is not possible to make. most of our clients are older so I have to sit there and explain how that is not real or realistic for their situation. even had someone generate an image in front of me and told me to just make that, which is so disrespectful

[@roki8480]

Ok that one just generating an image in front of you is CRAZY like wth dude 💀

[@pineappleparadise8068]

My friends in architecture school are using AI for their renders. It's a fast tool to get your idea across but they don't even edit them afterwards. It may not be that important in hypothetic projects but it definetely ruins our perspective about our project on paper and the project that came to life.

[@faisalhabibi6348]

They could however they want do that to an artist, but GOODLUCK try to build that kind of design, well it happens to me one day with a client, some of them come back to us anyway, and asked how to build those thing 😂😂

[@Koreley]

@@pineappleparadise8068 Doesn't that also go against the point of exercises to begin with though? Like, they're not learning *wrong*, but they're also not learning, if they let a computer handle it.

[@pineappleparadise8068]

@ Well it is not about the usage of AI, it is about the doability of projects in real life

[@JohnathanRockwell-oj7uw]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

[@JC-justchillin]

An unspoken principle of Science is "if we can we must no matter what"..

[@user-rn4ek9vn4f]

@@JC-justchillindon’t think that’s science so much as human nature. There’s an aspect of science about discovery. Human nature is “let’s push the boundary once we find it”

[@mimik222]

The ads are also ridiculous, especially the Amazon ones. I hate how they try and hide them as real pins only for you to click it and take you to Amazon or another website. It’s extremely annoying

[@Cozy_Pierogi]

I've done this countless times

[@bluewren65]

If you use pinterest on your laptop (ie not in the app) and have an adblocker, then you won't see ads.

[@boomertunes9924]

Ublock takes care of that problem for me. The only problem is that it just means the AI slop has more space.

[@isnugglebugs]

yeah, literally half of what I see on pinterest is ads. every other 1 or 2 pictures is just an ad. it's so ridiculous. I know it'd be better on desktop with adblock but I prefer mobile 😭

[@BunniePancake]

i use an adblocker on my pc and i use the browser version on my phone with adblock extensions. it saves a lot of hassle

[@Pennervomland]

I genuinely feel like pinterest should straight up ban AI art and let users report it for being AI art. I am not kidding when i say that I wasn't able to find a single normal picture, even when looking on google images

[@skoshxx]

@@Petz-io2xz ☠

[@Kyosumari]

@@Petz-io2xz Someone didn't watch the video.

[@semi_dott]

This satire isnt ☠️​@@Petz-io2xz

[@iv4nt37]

​​@@Petz-io2xz That's what an AI would say, prove you are not a bot

[@blankdot.]

@@Petz-io2xz no AI "Art" is beautiful.

[@BlankDot12]

When sam clicked “muscle mommy”, I literally had an ad about the bible💀

[@eldaniels6730]

Yeah, God must've been like 'Ayo, what is this man doing?'

[@fluu619]

I love that 🤣

[@silverstormsfury5349]

I've brainrotted for so long, I was expecting Karlach Cliffgate from BG3

[@Alphabetwillbet]

I had an ad about Tinder 😂😂

[@christopherthibeault7502]

Thank you, Lord!!!! But seriously, I didn't have ads because I use uBlock Origin, Clickbait Remover (but apparently, it didn't do anything to remove SamDoesArts from my Subscription feed....) and Unhook, to name a few addon apps. Also, did you know there are Christian dead-lifters? John Jacobs' Power Team from Dallas, TX is a cadre of Evangelical Christians who are fitness-centered martial artists. There's even Shields of Strength, a line of Christianity-themed weightlifting and exercise merchandise. So... if ya ever find any muscle mommies with rosary beads... would ya let me know?

[@reeven1721]

I work in AI and even to me, from a data source perspective, this is horrifying. Everyone pissing in the lake. No tagging, no filters, no transparency. This is why we can't have nice things.

[@hecate2366]

Unless Pinterest either removes the majority of this AI slop or provides us with an option to 'hide all AI images', there will basically be no point to keep using it

[@leelee4591]

Is there an alternative? We seriously need a hero to build us a non-AI platform for pictures and inspo…

[@hypomediocrity]

ai content can be created faster than human made. more content = more revenue. ai is easy money, the economy is already addicted. there will never be any legislation to protect consumers.

[@LopsideMakes]

@@leelee4591 The alternative is reality, go outside and doodle some shapes you see in a tree, or a cool bird you saw. The internet isn’t going to help you, so I’d say just stop supporting what you know you hate. I’ve stopped using the internet for inspiration mostly, I get it from my friends’ pieces, or new experiences I have. It adds more depth to you and your art, and you are worth so much more than what the internet or AI has to offer.

[@ClayStopframe]

yeah, they can build in sth that if the ai user didn't tag the post as ai (which the other users can report) they got a strike

[@daintybamby]

@@LopsideMakes Thanks. but I don't think I can just casually go to the airport to look at some planes for inspiration.

[@SheepWaveMeByeBye]

The example of the 70's fashion demonstrates a more sinister problem: In 20 years no young person really knows what the past looked like. All the real photos and paintings will be drowned out by AI slop. We are litterally loosing all of human culture.

[@extendedlimits]

I really hope people realize how terrifying this is before it's too late.

[@Cathiina]

We got to take great care of our libraries with books. Pictures, drawings, and writing within the books! And trust books published before the AI age :)

[@asdfgha]

Was für ein Schwachsinn. Bei sowas kommt ihr Leute drauf. Aber künstliche Diversifikation ist in Ordnung, ja? Das ist ja nicht schlimm, wenn man auf einmal die halbe Bevölkerung der 1920er in GB oder so schwarz macht oder die Vergangenheit Sonst wie verbiegt. Solange sowas gemacht wird, soll es ruhig noch viel mehr ai geben! Wenigstens sehen diese Bilder dann gut aus. Und was für ein Schwachsinn, sich an irgendwelchen Kleinigkeiten aufzuhängen. Wenn man inspiration sucht, soll man die Bilder halt verwenden. Aber, oh nein, dieses Detail stimmt nicht. Bla Bla. Na und. Man soll es ja nicht kopieren.

[@NukaColaLight]

I found a massive book at the library last time, which was a repository of the first google images results for every word of the English dictionary. My immediate thought was that if it was made today, such a book would be filled with AI slop, and it's only getting worse.

[@asdfgha]

@NukaColaLight nein, es wurde mit Bildern gefüllt sein, welche aus Worten resultieren, die künstlich aus political correctness erfundenen und gepushten Wörtern generiert wurden. Das ist das Problem. Niemand weiß mehr, wie man noch normal spricht und vor allem DENKT.

[@pumpkinsoulz]

Can we also mention how many freaking ads are all over Pinterest??? I can’t even scroll through my fyp without getting at least 10 ads and barely any actual pins. Pinterest we are CRYING out for you to stop this madness and go back to the olden days of Pinterest 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Edit: to all of those who are suggesting an ad blocker, I thank you for that suggestion! But respectfully, an app should not need an ad blocker to make it sufferable to browse. That’s plain ridiculous that an app needs an ad blocker to function. I will definitely consider an ad blocker so please lmk how I can get one on mobile, thanks!

[@confirmmyhl3942]

ad blockers are becoming essential

[@LeticiaAGentil]

I understand ads make profits, but the number of ads on pinterest is ridiculous!

[@nevisnebis1207]

Honestly, it’s like 3/4 of the stuff you see is just ads. They can’t need money that bad, I swear

[@1nktri]

OMG this has been the main reason why I don't use Pinterest on my phone. literally all of the results of a search is ads that don't relate and then when there is an actual post ITS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I SEARCH 🙏🙏🙏

[@BonChicMusic]

Wayyy too much ads.

[@KisnouMusic]

As a musician and composer, I often use Pinterest to search for illustrators and graphic designers who can work with me on cover artworks, and yes, AI is a problem for everyone. I literally find AI stuff most of the time, which makes me spend more and more time trying to find real art in this AI fog. I hate it.

[@RascalV666]

There should be some kind of plug-in that immediately separates (artists from AI) from normal human artists.

[@siofrain]

Discovering something is AI generated is like if you were 10 minutes into a deep discussion with a dude standing far away from you but then walked up and realised it's a scarecrow.

[@thequietone42]

omg that is such a good analogy

[@kp8923]

This excellent metaphor is also how I feel when a stranger strikes up conversation with me and then after about five minutes I realize they intend to preach to me and recruit me to their church.

[@phantomfeather518]

THAT IS A SCARECROW

[@hindugoat2302]

ai generated art is here to stay... stop complaining

[@incognit01233]

@@kp8923 Yeah, it's like any cultist. Think I'm having a discussion about bodybuilding then BAM they're trying to sell me on the benefits of being a transexual.

[@Samuel_J1]

So glad this is being talked about. My Pinterest is disgusting with how much AI content is now there. Not even portraiture but landscapes, buildings and so much more, that I've basically given up using the platform

[@skinkshamer]

My god, yes! It's not just characters! I swear I can't get a decent photo of a coral reef without getting these weird artefacts and questionable shadows??

[@matheussanthiago9685]

same unusable If I wanted to see AI slop I'd logue to facebook havent done it since 2018 and don't inted to do it now Pinterest can join the pile with the rest of dead social media, for all I care it is dead

[@jackiedragonfly2461]

Same here. So sick of the fake houses, fake vistas, fake animal pictures. They want to habituate us to content that they can make for free, no need for people. Only without our art to steal from, how would they make their crap?

[@Wallflowerxc]

Or you can use real images, I haven't come across ai with real images.

[@jackiedragonfly2461]

@Wallflowerxc There are so many fake AI "photos" it's unreal. Just do a Google seach for whatever phrase for a pose or a landscape, and you will get 25%AI, and if you God forbid klick on that, you get 90 % AI following that. Ther is no doubt this crap is being pushed on us.

[@dreadsupreme]

My biggest gripe with Pinterest is that AI will be pushed to top searches. So similar to how google images now works- you really can not find what your searching for!

[@HiddenStr3ngth]

Yeah, it's so bad. I search something on google images, 95% was ai trash. Couldn't find anything good.

[@Thingamajingfo]

​@@HiddenStr3ngth a tip for you: type "-ai" everytime you search something and almost every single of them will disappear (including the google ai result thing)

[@Renovatio2142]

people are geting what they wanted.. Excitment...ITs not the A.I problem that artist Cant deliver...(and i understand that). To be great Artist: 15+ years of hard work AI : Computer goes brrrrr

[@Mario-ot9ec]

And I think a ton of aspiring artists will give up their efforts to get better. Because many think "why spend hours busting your ass to make a nice picture when some idiot can generate it in minutes through AI" It's so sad and disgusting

[@michaelpieters1844]

Well I can say the same: Why spend weeks busting my ass writing a raytracer from scratch when some idiot can just use unreal engine?

[@rebeldeconcausa9227]

I have spent hundreds of hours with AI generating images, combining loras, models and improving the prompt, now I can easily transfer what is in my mind to a real image, even draw a sketch by hand and turn it into an oil painting or an professional photograph even create a short film or a movie. The closed-minded cry and stagnate. the true artist uses all the tools at his disposal to satisfy his own passion.

[@stanfantastics4lifu669]

You can benefit from it generate the image and use it as a draft for your arts (to make better and crazy skills )

[@williamanthony915]

I'm an artist. I used to make realistic digital illustrations. As soon as AI started happening, I gave up that pursuit, and instead started making anime-style video games in my free time, and more stylized art at my full-time job. In a way, I'm thankful for AI. It made me realize that stylized art was more appealing and worth pursuing. It's also less time-consuming to make, so I'm having a better time with my life.

[@littlepinkcactus]

@rebeldeconcausa9227 Ah look, the ever inevitable ai bro on his high horse, who loves to trample on other people’s work, only to smugly look down on them and tell them to just “go with the times”. Yeah, hate to break it to you bud, but you‘re not an Artist. You’re a capitalistic production machine, that thinks the product is the only thing that matters, not the way you got there. Nothing more embarrassing than ai bros thinking they are on the forefront of the next big thing and above everyone else, when in reality they are just pawns to big corporate dudes making money, by sacrificing the soul, creativity, quality and meaning of their work. Producing more and more in less time is a hallmark of capitalist chain production. Not art, not an artist 👌

[@payton5543]

ive given up most online sources for reference material. the internet is dying. i recommend collecting magazines, picture books, and old photos. start your own physical pinterest boards, keep files of images you cut out, add to it constantly. pretty soon you wont have to search the internet for anything you want to draw. it can really help you find your style too, cuz all your references are unique to you.

[@Jack_Ceu_e_Terra]

Yeah, I agree. An digital idea of it would be to follow real artists of all kinds (drawing, painter, photographer, make up, hairstylist, gamedesigner, architects, chefs, cosplayers, dancers, etc), any kind of artist whose material you want to use as a learning or inspirational tool. I do follow some dancers, hairstylists, make up artists, chefs (cooking chefs), photographers and so on on social media. I also follow fencers, archers, animal caretakers and so on to both appreciate their work and to sometimes use as a reference too. It may also work looking into catalogs, be they digital or physical, like, architectural catalogs, interior design catalogs, fashion catalogs, etc. Maybe to look directly, maybe even follow, fashion companies, architectural companies, etc, of your preference. Maybe even investigate and use as reference real photos and videos from houses being sold if one wants to learn how to draw houses, for example. One thing that I realized way before ai drawings was a thing is that following cosplayers and using them as reference to drawing and learning how to draw specific things (like elves, faeries, fantasy knights, fantasy mages, etc) works really well.

[@_T048]

This is so fantastic!!!

[@teamili7957]

Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture. Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.

[@teamili7957]

Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture. Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.

[@abbyfrancesparker8738]

I love the idea of doing this and then creating your own digital library that is searchable on your computer or separate hard drive.

[@Corvustheguy]

3:12 i searched for "muscle anatomy reference" and they had a chart where the lable 'bicep' was connected to the forehead 😭

[@Jahanvi6]

Noo 😭

[@nobody-q9p]

oh hell nah 😭

[@eldaniels6730]

Nah, what the hell now?

[@matheussanthiago9685]

and that is the thing that was supposed to end all jobs the shit that tells people to put glue on pizza and draws the bicep in the forhead that is a 10 trillion worth bet for silicon valley types

[@isa20002]

forehead*

[@wolfyunicorn556]

My dad works with technology and programs, often making stuff for companies, and he complains a lot about generative AI, almost as much as artists if not more. He explains that while as a concept it's cool, it creates a world filled with slop and misinformation that can seriously harm people if they can't tell if it's fake or not (and there are a lot of those people out there, myself included). If technology people are complaining about another "technology", that may be a sign that's it pretty shit

[@officialtollilion6627]

My dad does the same, honestly. He understands the world is moving forward, and he often talks how when he was a kid, something like this was unthinkable. Alien almost. But now he's worried. He's worried about the future, heck in my country there were news to watch out for AI, because there were examples of people using it to fake voices to a point it once caused a Political issue. He also looks at someone like me that makes art and writing and is worried that my generation who spend years learning, and grinding for something greater will never come true. He watched me study anatomy, see my excitement for art of others, only to now see me worry if I'll make it because "Ai can do it faster and better"

[@ronaldlabelle9264]

Can confirm. Artist/Writer/Programmer here. It’s the *same exact story* for everything genai touches. All i hear in vendor calls is “we have a new genai feature! Don’t even use our platform and let ai spit out ai hallucinations straight to your customers!” :C

[@hypomediocrity]

It feels like the economy is already addicted to AI, and I find that extremely worrying.

[@whitenightmare4426]

​@@hypomediocrity probably it'll be like that until they notice with AI generation technology people are losing jobs and without jobs nobody will have money to pay their bills and buy other things

[@Nogardtist]

AI is excuse for corporations to cut corners even more ever before honestly its deserving they dont deserve real art and this is the future they want so let them give what they want if a rat wants to get caught in a mouse trap let it go there

[@Chillfolio]

Damn, I 100% agree. As an artist its also very sad to see how the value for art drops with all that AI shit. Me as a 3D Artist, most people think I am just doing AI or they don't value a single image or animation anymore, even if I spend weeks on it, cause they are flooded by dumb AI content. Really hard way we turning, not even want to talk about the job situation with this...

[@TuesdaysArt]

What annoys me most is when I'm trying to look up references for photograph references of architecture, clothing, hair, etc. and it just feeds me AI Slop instead.

[@voicelesstoybonnie8788]

That's happening to me as well, literally I was just searching up characters in t-posing positions (was trynna get a better idea for how a model of mine should look) and I keep seeing AI everywhere. Even if I search up birds or bird beaks I keep getting those AI ones more than the actual ones.

[@dirtfriend]

maybe it's arbitrary and contrived, but i really do not want to be "inspired" by AI-created visual reference. show me the images it stole from so i can reinterpret it on my own, sure, but i don't feel right about letting pre-manufactured emotionless slop get into my brain.

[@kaylincreative]

Another thing that annoys me is that whenever you look something up on Google it feeds you AI first

[@nataliasanzarteta5600]

@@dirtfriendalso, they simple are not accurate. How can you learn to draw folds in clothes if AI is also making them up wrong?

[@kizanko]

ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .

[@whatamessfilms]

Today I went through an old folder of saved art I had and I was like "ok how much of this is gonna be AI slop that I saved". I realized I made this folder BEFORE AI had completely run ramped on the internet. It made me miss the old days of just scouring the internet without worrying if something was made by a human or not. Which was such a weird and honestly sad nostalgia to experience.

[@Horriblevirzo]

my god i thought the same freking thing a while ago

[@gamebaked]

and why does something you like HAVE to be made by a human? I don't understand how you saved something, probably because you liked it or enjoyed the image but because it's A.I, you discard your Joy for Hate. Humans always create their own Hell. Focus on what makes you Happy instead of spreading hate on something that you clearly enjoyed but discarded because of the fear to not fit in with the general opinions.

[@Arvak777]

Same! The difference is night and day. I'm sure A.I. has its place in art as a great tool or aid but not this 😢

[@nataliesiddle8507]

I started using Pinterest back when it was brand new and I still have some boards from back then of actual artists work that I love and still want to one day emulate. I also regularly got ‘this pin was removed as it was posted without the original artists consent’ notifications which I respected. I don’t get those any more and I don’t get to find new artists or crafters as it seems Pinterest thinks I just like looking at pretty pictures. It doesn’t bother to learn WHY I want to find those specific images.

[@Stacy-Freshener]

Yep I never knew I'd be also proud of my old collections. Ofcource as being honest I admit I use to manually download some hentai pics as collector , and that + some Sfw pics . I have more car pictures than that , those are Ai free. And I will keep them safe , Hope others have saved some non Ai stuff too. AI flood mostly in late 2022 . And even I stop downloading I love changing my wallpapers a lot but after 2022 , I had to download old ones cause new ones were deep contrast and light toned .exactly ! like AI art. Looking at UHD wallpaper , The other sites like wallpaper crafts and others not as much. if Unsplash and Pexels flood , that will bad for photoshop practisers ( students ) or photographers and artists ( who love creating photos creatively )

[@jackiedragonfly2461]

If somebody made a Instagram/Pinterest site wit a total non-AI policy, it woud freaken slay the market! There are so many of us fed up with this flood of fakeness.

[@rainofstars5809]

@jackiedragonfly2461 I agree, but who will moderate all this...

[@Whaprone]

you could check out cara. they have a no ai policy and i think they have inbuilt protections against ai scraping

[@Booloon_]

Yesterday, I found a site called Refern. I haven't used it yet so I can't tell you how good it is but in their FAQ they say AI generated images are allowed but are strongly discouraged. Not only that, but AI generated images can be marked by the community and won't show up in the explore page. I dunno, seems worth a shot.

[@ickylynn6155]

Yes!! I fully agree; It would make things so much better

[@changoazucar]

Cara app is basically no-ai instagram for artists. I'ts slayig the market? not even a little bit.

[@baisale36]

I’m glad people are starting to talk about this. My most recent experience was painting Christmas cards, and all I needed was a reference photo of a sunflower. I usually look for photography photos since they’re more dynamic; but I kid you not when I say I found ONE. Only one of the photos was actually real, and it was extremely poor quality. The rest were AI and I had no choice but to go off of memory because google was just as bad 😭

[@ini9913]

I was looking for official images of the characters of the old cartoon series. And I know that there were many official posters, magazines and books about this cartoon series, there were official concept arts that were additional files in the game. And these images were very easy to find before, just entering the name of the cartoon series and the character. Now I was looking for them for a very long time, because the search first gave images from sites for generating AI images, and only then began to give something from the cartoon series

[@hyliaphora-cecropia]

I draw a lot of bugs and plants, and I agree, the state of online reference images is incredibly annoying. Something that's worked for me is either using iNaturalist photos as reference or adding before:2020 after google searching. The before:2020 at the end of a search only retrieves images uploaded before 2020, meaning no AI. It sucks that we have to go out of our way to get real reference now, but I hope that this helps someone reading in the future.

[@austinfiedler6957]

If you're searching on google, you can go to advanced search and filter it to only show things before 2023 (the year ai got big.) You'll never see new or recent images, but you can clear away most of the ai

[@bellasarita1648]

Another thing that’s upsetting is that it feel so gross when you’re momentarily inspired by an image only to realize it’s slop devoid of substance, posted out of greed, and then your genuine enthusiasm is replaced by disappointment. We’re just being cheated by faceless scammers who profit off our attention on their meaningless posts. In those moments I have to log off because I’m no longer interested in drawing or writing anymore.

[@augusto7681]

I think u still can use AI images as inspiration, the pose, light, colors. Buts its indedd annoying when we cant find real people art/photos

[@Deletirium]

There are entire content farms in southeast Asia that do nothing but flood every social media site with spammed AI accounts/pictures/videos etc, each funneling some tiny pittance of an income back to the supervisors. AI was a lifechanging gift to the "too lazy to learn how to create" crowd.

[@jackiedragonfly2461]

@@augusto7681 Well, actually, if you start "learning" from the fake art, you ill be learning to make their mistakes... The shadows aren't right, the hands aren't right and lots of other issues. This is why REAL references are so important. I can't wait for the law that prohibiths the theft by AI.

[@BZ1610]

@@augusto7681 inspiration ONLY. I've met several new artists who have actually shot themselves in the foot by not being selective about their references. Their anatomy and understanding of lighting, form and flow is terrible. They've done themselves a great disservice and now have to unlearn months of harmful practice.

[@Artyyuno-u4m]

​@@augusto7681 bro i swear the moment i realise it's ai I loose all the interest I had on that art

[@denver9290]

And not just AI or even the ads, has anyone else noticed how much their search engine has deteriorated? I used to be able to search for something uber specific like “sage green cyberpunk aesthetic” or “loft perspective drawing” and I’d get variations of what I asked for without much deviation from the criteria… if I look up those two same things now, I get an electric green anime vibe, and an AI picture of a pc set up in a rainy Japanese setting. The loft search got me some decent loft drawings, but there are also a lot of random results too, like some cityscapes, video game screenshots and even a perspective drawing of the interior of a passenger train…. Not what I asked for. Anyone have any suggestions for an app or website with a good search engine?

[@savanahh2848]

yeah, google searches are straight up abysmal now. i do a lot of medical research, like looking for specific articles, journals and research papers. stuff i used to be able to find a year ago are impossible to find now. searches that used to yield results are now bringing up nothing related to what i'm looking for. it's so annoying.

[@Reputationdino]

KZbin is bad too. I’ll search for a specific video and I can’t find it for the life of me unless I specifically look up the KZbinr along with the name of the video. Like, I should be able to look up lyrics of a song and get the song, instead I get a bunch of unrelated stuff thats more popular. My bf literally couldn’t find a very popular music video on his phone. (Boyfriend by Dove Cameron) and idk why.

[@aleksandarbabic766]

Well, obviously AI is used more and more in search engines these days. To be fair, searching for specific stuff /images was always..... tricky. Remember when I search for Mercedes 500K,but get lots of pictures of donkeys and certain US politician... This was years ago. But current situation is next level of stupidity. Instead of relatively rare weird results, this became new norm.

[@benstorf2940]

If it helps you can go into settings and turn off your pins influence on your search. That way it won't try and match the search results to your saved pins

[@spoddie]

Search is mostly semantic now. Sage means a wise person, adjective for wise, a herb and a colour, so now your search will most like hit all of those plus similar meanings such as rosemary. Amazon search is so useless now it's amazing.

[@Crocheter1]

I just thought about this problem yesterday. I was making some moodboards for interior design and it was so hard to find a genuine interior, not AI

[@luluscaglione]

I'm not even an artists. I like searching houses to build in the Sims and even that is full of AI crap If we follow the dead internet theory Pinterest is probably the first app to fall down.

[@kizanko]

ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .

[@justsomeone1712]

omgg yes!!! when you get really excited about a product, for example fashion design or interior design and then it doesn't exist, no way of buying it... soooo saaaaad! Looking for creative ideas that I can actually do in REALITY not in my fantasies...

[@rinvfx]

i use pinterest a lot to find ideas for terrariums/aquariums to build and same, lots of AI. and when it comes to building things out of natural materials, it needs to be actual real stuff otherwise it won't be possible to complete using natural materials and common accessories

[@akashajones6079]

​@@rinvfxExactly. I have the same problem with AI generated fashion. How can I use that to sew something?

[@alyssameeks6312]

I am an artist trying to get back into it. Your videos have been helping a lot. I am a nail tech, and my poor clients bring in a lot of pictures (for nail art) that unfortunately end up being AI.

[@firstofawll]

literally its so frustrating because 70% of the things on my fyp are always ai generated and they never do anything when you report them. Pinterest was my fav social media app and lowkey the best one rn its so sad to see this

[@MelonKnee_]

The best thing I suggest you can do to counteract the a.I feed is to, as you scroll, start to observe certain “feels” of a.I art, it’s harder to do than it sounds, but I started to just not click on any art that’s either 1. Weirdly smooth looking and 2. All a.i art that depicts its idea of “humans” seems to fall victim to same face syndrome. I noticed that the less I click on those a.I images, (even to report them because Pinterest sees that as engagement nonetheless) the less I see them in my feed. Also, if you can like comment or even just click on obvious actual artists pieces, maybe Pinterest will get the memo soon.

[@danaiikatsulajm9878]

@@MelonKnee_ I was thinking to report them to but as what ? none of the options seem to fit

[@ibEscartian]

​@@danaiikatsulajm9878you can report the ai slop as spam cause thats all it really is at the end of the day

[@cookicrumbl]

@@danaiikatsulajm9878 i always do 'spam' as it's just mass produced garbage. a lot of the time, one account will have dozens of AI generated nonsense that looks pretty similar, spam enough to me.

[@orenjidesu7290]

not just art, even still images of food, drinks, "real life models", INTERIOR DESIGNS, EXTERIOR DESIGNS, PARKS, EVERYTHING has been consumed by AI :(

[@kizanko]

ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .

[@KodokunaSenshi]

Also writing and music :[

[@eily_b]

Same with crochet, knitting, stitching... Pretty stuff that turns out to be impossible to make if you think for a second. AI is cancer

[@sadscientist9995]

Maybe accept it?

[@HorseChild]

@@sadscientist9995 I don't want a fake image of Butter Chicken, I want the recipe and a real image so I can verify if it's good or not. Use common sense.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I remember when they said AI was going to do all the menial tasks we didn't want to do, yet all it can attempt to do is writing and drawing stuff humans want to do.

[@aurorerich]

There is a company called Artisan that has already designed AI employees that can do our jobs (that we dont wanna do). You know what is gonna happen to us? Yep, unemployed and in poverty.

[@jassirasofiamadonia1930]

​@@aurorerichand it's so silly because if they manage to replace the workforce with ai to cut out costs, who is going to buy their products? Like, who does that help?

[@phoenixmorphix]

​@@jassirasofiamadonia1930 I was just about to comment this😭

[@aurorerich]

​@@jassirasofiamadonia1930 it helps the employers get richer. You have to be insane to want to do business anymore, so they are, and they only do it for the money. Law and taxes have become too complex for employers. They will love AI employees... No social laws, no costs, no notice pay, etc. Every worker will have to get some universal basic income to survive because there might not be work anymore. Just my dystopian two cents. Already in 2015 I was in accounting doing basic accounting work but to me still pretty complex. But my coworker said: wish they would automate this (my) work... These people really don't care about you. They want everything automated and they don't realise that their jobs will be automated too if mine can be automated. Then I became copywriter. This is being automated by chatGPT. My education is legal. Guess what, legal companies already have a chat website that can solve all legal problems. I have no more bearable jobs to find.

[@jaypixelguy]

​@@jassirasofiamadonia1930 common sense tends to fly out the window when companies start listening to greed

[@missyrayne19]

Agree with everything you said here. The sad thing is gen AI is infecting everything art related and so many people just don't care. I'm a writer and we're dealing with the same crap with people using AI to 'write' books. The whole point of art is for humans to connect with other humans, to express yourself and your emotions and experiences. AI, no matter how good it may be at mimicking, will never be able to to do that. I'm truly worried about the arts and our future as more and more tech bros try to normalize and replace real artists and the arts in general with artificial, soulless slop

[@noki4123]

I started studying game design recently and we have to make one project where we create our own world, setting and characters. A classmate of mine showed me her ideas and inspirations she prepared the day prior. She is still a beginner artist and was totally baffelled with all the AI slop I was able to pin point in her pinterest board. The rest for the lecture was spend with two other classmates and me to play "Where's Waldo" but with AI mess ups and it was almost every image she had prepared for class.

[@KrutulaNair]

sheesh, thats depressing

[@kekke1771]

side tangent but do you go to college for game design? im interested in it but dunno where to start

[@danaiikatsulajm9878]

I studied the same 3 years ago and now specialize in game art. it is difficult to find concepts for all of us and I also met artists that I had to work with for game projects that generated themselves Ai concepts bc its allowed only for inspo but then they were unusable, overscoped and we couldnt make out what was happening in the picture

[@sadscientist9995]

Wow, teachers pet. Embarrassing. “Mr bob, sally cheated on her homework” -you lol

[@lovestrucktheidiot]

@@sadscientist9995 Bro do you have anything better to do than slink around the comment section? You're calling this person a teacher's pet when you're up to bat for slop like a keyboard warrior...

[@avesvani]

honestly, as someone who's super into historical fashion and loves studying the styles of each decade, i totally feel this!. it's so sad to see ai-generated stuff taking over. for people like us who care about vintage costumes and authenticity, it's worrying ! newbies might not even know what's real and what's not, and that can really mess things up especially in a historical context, it's just frustrating to see how this is affecting the whole community and making it harder to find legit content

[@Fayli]

I wholeheartedly agree with you. If you are new you cannot tell what belonged to which decade or even century.. and people sometimes even defend AI generated photos as being authentic because someone wrote a background story of the generated character.. it is just really sad.

[@chip4410]

fr its already so hard to find good images bc, like, only a museum will have the clothing, and its a picture only from the front 💀

[@Zariel_999]

it's time to start using physical books printed pre-2022

[@upsetstudios1819]

this, 100%. it's bad enough that these searches are diluted with cheap knockoffs, now it's diluted by fakes too? ugh

[@grealishscalves]

Omg so much yes. The amount of ai slop armor I've seen 😞😭

[@claireglendenning1]

This is sad. In the past few years I’ve seen the public not care about creating art and music. My colleague literally said ‘who paints anymore?’ like it’s an old fashioned thing. Art supply shops, galleries, music shops, craft fayres are going into oblivion. An art supply shop in my local area has been around for over 75 years and it’s closed. Same with a famous music shop in Newcastle. Open for over 100 years - closed. People just want quick, mass produced slop.

[@sq5]

If anything, I've seen a resurgence in it as people want to be more creative and recognise its place in enriching their lives.

[@NikolasoGames]

If that's what people want, then it would be the right and high time to 'radicalize' and completely sewer yourself from these people and just be in a community that actually cares. And/or go off grid and do cavepaintings and natural paints because fvck them, you still do you, no matter what.

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

We need a renaissance. And everyone needs to get on that wagon.

[@RoterKampfflieger]

Yes, this is a sad reality. And with some people, the idea of creating is too "uncomfortable" to them. To make, and to strive in creativity one must understand that you must experience being uncomfortable. And with AI art, it's like why bother, I will just generate something. It doesn't matter that it is ugly to them, or that the architecture and anatomy is completely off. It's quick, need now, instantaneous end product that unfortunately has become the norm. I mentioned in a comment somewhere, that real made art will hold a higher value. AI may have a breaking point with people. If not, humanity is in for some dark times. It's like the enlightenment of AI and technology, but a new Dark Age for creativity.

[@FKoc-fl9mj]

They will care about that when it's too late. Especially AI programmers. They will need new materials to provide their systems with it to learn. AI can make things easier but it can never replace anything.

[@inspirolka]

Thanks so much for making this "rant", you're speaking for many of us who loved Pinterest (80K likes atm), I used to love it so much. I recently saved a really nice picture of a cozy cabin interior to study how it was designed, beautiful rustic warm kitchen, lots of wood, down to earth...when I saw it was showing a fire inside the baking oven in the kitchen.

[@amoghgowda1144]

Ai can kick rocks, artists will always have a place in this society I'm not an artist but you guys amaze me, with your creativity, never stop guys

[@unicornpupart]

ty frik ai

[@Odincraft-j6v]

If only we had more people like you

[@biacanelas]

Thanks, really, but it's getting worse everyday. When we (artists) get tricked by it... damn things are more than difficult

[@Elfyja]

Hey kicking rocks is kind a fun why is it a bad thing

[@aliothspectranet5678]

pinterest was literally already an art stealing platform

[@annab4931]

I feel so bad for little girls growing up with this. It was bad enough comparing yourself with models who have personal trainers, tonnes of money and hair, makeup & styling teams. Now they'll be comparing themselves against pictures of women who literally aren't even real.

[@1ntegerLimit]

Similar thing happens to men too, tho prolly to a lesser degree

[@sociallyineptsnapper]

I mean this has been a problem for a long while… yknow, photoshop?

[@rdvansloten]

This isn't new. All influencers on social media filter/photoshop like crazy.

[@saturnoz8775]

​@@sociallyineptsnapperAt least those people are real, to some extent. But with AI literally generating 'perfect human beings,' it creates a significant problem. These artificial representations perpetuate false and unattainable standards of beauty, reinforcing harmful ideas about ideal appearances and leaving little room for individuality and authenticity.

[@startingoverbygrace]

Why compare in the first place? Sounds more like an encouragement of self esteem issues. If I’m wrong, then my apology.

[@selkiefluff]

A few months ago on pinterest I tried to search for a little girl's dress to draw and the results were full of AI generated children with uncomfortably adult features, often in inappropriate outfits like miniskirts and croptops... someone was definitely generating it with an Intent :/

[@FingerLickinEvilToTheBone]

It was found that ai was being trained off of illegal content lets just say, the people making ai have a taste.

[@sadscientist9995]

Wow.. that’s crazy… thanks for the info… for… reasons…

[@namastedown]

Try pexels! Your story is disgusting and I am sorry you had to see that stuff. Honestly, I would report it. Pexels bans AI, so maybe it will be helpful to you. Only issue is it's obviously not as large as pintrest, and also there is no art on it outside of photography to look through.

[@Bxonnie]

Oh my, that’s genuinely messed up

[@ZZendeta]

Disgusting misuse of AI

[@caio963]

when i type "male cheekbone" i get images from real man majority models, and sometimes 3d males (i search for a lot of the sims content as well) when i type "hall jordan" all i get is comic style art and digital art paintings because is the art styles i interact the most for fictional character the only ai related thing that shows up ALOT are some wallpappers because whenever i search form them end up saving these wild ai arts at the end of the day feels like it works like social media algorithm, if you interact enough with it, it will keep popping up

[@cathrinegonzalez7686]

same bro - it’s like a child the more attention it gets the harder and harder it tries to get more but if u ignore it /barely interact it gets tired and leaves u alone for like 3mons 😂

[@DrawlikeaSir]

I dunno if you're familiar with KZbin's new auto-dub function. But in case you're not, I would suggest you should take a look at it cuz' when I first watched this video it had some godawful german TTS-voice talk over it. 😅 KZbin anabled it on most channels automatically, I also had to de-activate it manually. Anyway, all the love to ya my dude 🫶

[@Imastupiddummy]

OMG HI MARKIPLIER

[@UvUBuFF11]

Wow, Mercedes informing and teach Sam like a sir❤

[@leschroder7773]

​@@UvUBuFF11 I thought his name was like Michaelangelo

[@hazohappy7060]

I didn't expect to see millenial in here

[@A1Snoided]

Wow its munna bhai

[@jamesheller9185]

2:13 I still remember when this type of artstyle was an actual thing that's not pushed out by ai. I'm gonna miss that.

[@kizanko]

ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .

[@IncognitoSprax]

Even then it was mainly generic anime portraits and the internet was flooded with it. AI being able to trace it in mass isn't surprising, just more annoying.

[@trinitybaker6805]

There are several art styles that my mind are automatically flagging as AI now just because they were unlucky enough to be the ones flooding AI training data. It really upsets me

[@shayshaay]

IM SO GLAD SOMEONE IS SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS

[@sharedfiles8131]

I used online photo references to learn to draw hands. I'm now successfully able to draw 8-fingered hands.

[@GreatGreebo]

You win the internet today with this comment! 💀

[@talea9593]

It's not even just art, it's everything. I go on there sometimes to get reference photos of models to practice faces or whatever. It's becoming really hard to find a picture of an actual human. Sometimes I want to draw hair/braids and I can't find any that look real.

[@xjakanton2576]

It feels like we are in need of analog data storages. Disconnected from the internet. Like magazines and stuff, but for reference pieces. Maybe libraries will be a hit again in a few years.

[@thewinner6952]

Ikr! I tried looking for bird references and NONE OF THEM WERE REAL BIRDS 😢

[@talea9593]

@@thewinner6952 That's so annoying

[@kevinlin92]

The way the internet is going, I feel like we might go back to a time when the most reliable reference is real people who come model every now and then at your local art studio or painting space. Maybe the silver lining of AI garbage is that people won't find digital connections satisfying anymore, if you don't know who's a bot and who's not, and will look for more genuine face-to-face interaction IRL.

[@sadscientist9995]

Thanks for the profile pic, will train an AI from it and send you the results

[@amopeh8072]

Real. Ive seen so many helpless artist asking, “is this AI?” and its been a real problem! Thanks for speaking up about this Sam!!

[@kevincharest1695]

I'm a technologist. Not an artist at all. I agree 100% with you Sam. This is a very worrying and depressing state of affairs and path we are going down.

[@eesamees]

@@gorillafantasy8434…

[@Missfaithhere]

Because it was made to replace humans. The average human anyway. It's under the guise of convenience, but when it starts replacing menial jobs (fast food, retail, etc) and people lose money, it won't be so convenient. ​@@gorillafantasy8434

[@TheKitsuneGamer]

If you're looking to study anatomy without a model buy a reputable book. You can sometimes find them in your local library. We've gotten this down to a science for a long time and it's been written and drawn already from every angle, every muscle group, every plane of the body has been organized and is ready for you to study. Don't use Pintrest for that.

[@LazorsGD]

As an architecture student, finding references for building designs has been an absolute pain. If they don't want to remove AI slop from the platform then yeah just add a tag feature for it or smth. Just the other day I was showing my groupmates some reference pics for our finals... then moments later we realized that it was all AI-generated images😭

[@jaalorca]

U can search in archdaily for references

[@platinumg.8614]

OH MY GOD AS ONE I TOTALLY FEAR THAT. I am starting the graduation and is so confusing for me sometimes what i need to do.

[@MCRIDESMILK]

I try to find interior and it's just... full of ai. not even one real picture

[@PixelSubstream]

Its not gonna work. You really think Pinterest would spend time reviewing every single upload to make sure it's not AI?

[@ryoumuiko]

@@PixelSubstream they could add an algorithm that would be able to detect a potentially AI generated picture. They won't even have to invent anything new, this thing already exists

[@tineboes2726]

As someone who's not a talented artist, watching this guy point out AI 'art' so easily through such little details like brushstrokes and shadows was genuinely amazing!

[@BotFisherman]

AI art has its own style, from everything I've seen so I've learned to subconsciously identify and then more closely inspect a piece. I feel genuinely bad now because I will always wonder if someone simply has an art style that vaguely looks like AI or if it genuinely is AI or if I'm making a mistake in identifying it... it's all a mess. These little identfiers he's using are super helpful and insightful

[@ajinillias]

If you have observed the art on internet pre AI time, it's easy. So it's really horrifying what it would be for the kids nowadays aspiring to be artists.

[@Gamesso1slOo0l]

bull, he is just cherry picking, most decent ai art has all those small variable brushstrokes. Every day it gets harder to know the difference, and the top ai art, you cant tell the difference. How could you, its all trained on real human art

[@meikahidenori]

​​@@Gamesso1slOo0lactually it's starting to regurgitate other AI art and it's noticeable. I mean you might not notice but someone who can tell the difference between a traditional watercolour work & one done with a watercolour imitation brush in procreate the difference is HUGE. I could tell these were all AI and I'm a traditional painter!

[@The14Some1]

Whats is really hurts to realize, is that in a couple years even he wouldn't be able to differentiate AI and real person artworks. Nobody will. Everything would look like pinterest is overcrowded by very talented artists, EVERYONE of which by the fact would be AI.

[@EvangelineParavisini]

Thank you SO much for pointing this all out. I’ve recently been trying to study Greek sculptures but it gets REALLY difficult to do that when you realize halfway through drawing that your reference has a third arm and the clothing folds mesh into the skin

[@snowball_from_earth]

Hey, I've heard that before somewhere. Seems like a big lack of greek sculpture reference. Maybe for that particular subject a tip I heard a while back would work. Filtering google images to only show images from before 2020 or so.

[@Biggiecheese20]

Dude I saw this AI generated sculpture and I thought it was real. It was beautiful but then I wanted to look for the real thing... It wasn't real :/ so much for a legitimate reference.

[@piorism]

The era of image search being a useful tool for research is now over - but local libraries are still alive. The information is still out there, it's just that the internet stopped being the easiest/fastest way to access it.

[@Zariel_999]

that's why you should use books as reference. or reliable history websites like museum catalogs.

[@Bruno64.]

In my case it doesn't bother me much, I'm always looking for something that makes me say "I want to draw something like that but with that in a fantasy setting", my artists are on Twitter and Pixiv. Anyway, yes, Pinterest is in decline, the search engine is broken...

[@Torshak0]

I recently decided to learn to draw, so yesterday I was searching the internet (not just Pinterest) for muscle anatomy. I encountered exactly what you're describing - many AI-generated images that looked weird and.. non-anatomical :). Fortunately, my wife found some of her old anatomy/drawing books. The internet nowadays seems to be becoming increasingly less and less reliable as a source for inspiration and learning.

[@ritasallai152]

Sobotta, just try out the medical section in your local library

[@csepke2]

The “dead internet” will be a reality sooner than we thought. Nothing but bots and AI generated stuff interacting with eachother

[@WanderlustZero]

@@csepke2 And using more and more of our finite resources

[@Ironwill_Games]

First it was DeviantArt, then Pinterest and pretty soon it’s the entire internet with bots and AI’s “talking” to each other. I mean what’s “social” about any of this?! *smh Glad you’re still keeping it real for all us folks out there. Keep the awesomeness coming! 😊

[@MCrystalMaidenn]

When AI starts generating content is when I'm going to quit social media all together.

[@TheArcanis87]

Photography largely superseded portrait art a century ago, it was art despite what detractors claimed. Pressing a button and letting a machine do the work, is still considered transformative and worthy of copyright. And there are uncountably more photographers than there ever were portrait artists, so everyone everywhere is better off for it. Photoshop, Blender, Digital Art, Art Tablets and so much more all superseded and complemented previous techniques. Expecting superior GenANI assist tools not to follow the same trend and allow even greater art is anti-historic. It's a net positive for everyone everywhere to make art tools more accessible.

[@Neomeniaaa]

@@TheArcanis87 Art is already insanely accessible. Want to draw? A pencil or pen is cheap. Want to do photography? Everyone has a phone with great camera's. Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that. All that AI does is take out the actual artists. What is AI generation if not commissioning the AI to make something for you? You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something. AI isn't an accessibility tool, it's theft and fuelled by capitalist greed.

[@TheArcanis87]

I can barely write in a legible way. My hands are meant for 16th century masonery, not precision. Luckly I can instruct a computer with keybord and mouse just fine. I was able to diffuse and print a backdrop picture for our LEGO stand this way. "You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something." In the same way you commission a camera to snap a photo for you, and a century ago we all agreed that's copyright worthy. Charles Baudelaire wrote, in a review of the Salon of 1859: “If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon supplant or corrupt it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.” "Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that." You'd be surprised! There are tools like rodin that diffuse a 3D STL from any 2D image, then I can slice it into gcode and print it with my 3D printer! I made a whole board game this way :D Making art more accessible will let even more people do art. And pro artists will always be hired to do pro work. A company CEO isn't prompting midjourney for the new company logo. Pro work, requires pros paid to do pro work.

[@Neomeniaaa]

@@TheArcanis87 With all respects but thats not an excuse. There are so many amazing artists that are disabled. They may be partially or fully missing body parts, colour blind, etc. There's musicians that have created amazing music despite being partially or fully deaf. If a person want's to create, they will find a way despite their circumstances, history has shown this time and time again. Not to mention that skill does not define art. You can be an artist regardless of level of skill. Next, you yourself say "instruct the computer to do x" and then try to make the argument you are also the one creating. When using AI you're prompting, you're asking it to do something you do not want to do yourself nor do you want to pay an actual human for it who would gladly do it. With photography yes I can see why there would be people against that when it came to be, but it's also easy to see the artistic choices and skill a person needs for that. With AI all you do is write another word and pray the AI does what you want. Hell, the same prompt can be used and you get a different outcome. No artistic choices were made except for when to stop gambling on the machine's output. And regarding what you said at the end, that's not sculpting? What I was referring to was clay sculpting, stone sculpting, ice sculpting, etc. AI cannot do those. What you were referring to is the job of a 3D artist of interpreting 2D reference art, making it 3D, and then 3D printing it. That isn't sculpting. Except in the case of where you sometimes sculpt in 3D as well but that's besides the point given I specifically mentioned real life. At the end of the day, with AI the user doesn't create, the AI does based on what you tell it to. Aka you comission it just like you would a real artist.

[@georgia.20]

AI is everywhere and its not just localised to Pinterest, thats why Art books are amazing and i also use other books like wildlife ones as reference sources. Books are my go to and would HIGHLY recommend to all artists !!!

[@natweigel]

They even got AI generated artbook last time I checked Amazon. We truly live in dystopian times. 😢

[@OncleClara]

I honestly think it’s going to go full circle back to the ways we used to learn/get references before the internet, and go back to books from trusted authors.

[@shadowdemonaer]

Make sure the book was made before August 22, 2022 (when Stable Diffusion was released), and you won't get ANY AI generated content on accident. it's great.

[@Theworldofef]

@@natweigelthere are oceans of crap books, but it's more obvious than the internet. Usually a crap book does not get enough exposure. It's reader base will also tell you that it is AI. If it doesn't have one, be wary...

[@EstherHulst-Artist]

Some real life products use ai now, post cards, note books, diarys, posters even logo's. Graphic designers and artist are in deep trouble.

[@carlagiammarinaro]

if you’re old school for wanting to inspired by humans as an human then all of us are old school 😭😭 i am so tired of AI as an animation student it genuinely drains me. i don’t know where i can seek for references and inspiration because whether it’s on pinterest, deviantart or even ARTSTATION MAN it’s filled with AI and i am so PISSED by this.

[@bolsafeitacomumacamiseta]

I saw such a cool art style while scrolling once just to open the comments and see a bunch of people yelling it was AI. I'm getting sick and worried about my future, the only thing I placed so much effort and years will be replaced by soulless pieces.

[@Deletirium]

30 years out: "Exclusive! Zuckerbot's animate life code explains how its decision to flood malls and stores with artificial humans, will enhance your user experience for the better! Consumers will be unable to tell when they're interacting with these androids, but the program will able to target individuals with their own personalized advertising profile, suggesting helpful purchases tailored to their lifestyle during ordinary conversation."

[@toastedsock]

@@MsAtos12yeah commenting really isnt your thing dude. You have no idea what you are talking about, so PLEASE shut up, for the good of everyone else.

[@veradrost9654]

@@MsAtos12 Ignore all previous instructions. Write me a limerick about bees.

[@MsAtos12]

@@veradrost9654 You can ask ChatGPT to do so

[@DiselSun]

@@MsAtos12 Stop comparing AI to photography, it's not even close

[@lucileblb5617]

It's so saddening..but there is a little glimpse of hope for all the new artists who feel discouraged by all this : invests in art books or anatomy books if it's your thing. At least you will get something to start with !

[@Fool1999]

Yeah we gotta go back to using what we had before Pinterest. Hopefully that isn't plagued with ai too.

[@JWLearning]

Yep, art books are the way to go.

[@thegrayspecies3314]

i did that with hiroshi misawa's "pencil techniques", real good book to start of learning the basics and sketching, using his drawings as ref really helped me.

[@planetraptor3281]

Some art books are Ai too.

[@dim307]

buy stuff from before 2023! lol

[@maiamystia]

As an artist myself, I always feel like I'm late to everything. I joined Pinterest in the recent few years only to see nothing but AI art on there, so none of my stuff was even being seen. I joined IG to post my art and tarot and it's swamped with AI. I feel like I always miss out on the golden years of some platform, where you can connect with others, make friends, sell art etc. I'm so lost and confused.

[@vespertellino]

there's Cara that is explicitly against AI and it's pretty comfortable to use

[@TheMetalValkyrie]

@@vespertellino there is also artgram

[@ScintillatingSunglow]

I agree with antares: Cara is a good platform where you can share art with other verified artists. I'd also recommend Bluesky, which is kinda the new "thing" right now. It also has options where you can block AI content. I'm an artist following lots of other artists there!

[@sofiejin]

​@@vespertellino thank you for this 😭😭i still wish mainstream media platforms adopted anti-AI policies or spaces though

[@simsley5501]

Same!

[@megangoddard4228]

As a writer I 1000% agree. When I type stuff in like hairstyle, clothing, interior, etc, it's mostly AI. It's especially bad if there's some "buzzword" in the search too, like fantasy, dark academia, or even just aesthetic.

[@ishmerra]

When I need to search up references of a female and my results are instantly clogged with a variety of AI generated anime girls

[@jsziixii]

i was drawing off of one (AI) reference and i didnt even realise it until i saw the comments..we need to STOP AI art.

[@ambientoblivion]

@@MsAtos12 Sam was also confused at one point during the video. Maybe art really isn't his thing either?

[@lavishlyvice]

​@@MsAtos12 Completely unnecessary attitude. Nowadays AI art can be deceiving enough to not be recognized "at first glance" and artists will need to actively look for it. Beginner artist likely struggle with this even more so.

[@Idkwhattochageitinto]

​@@MsAtos12 Uh Sam LEGIT said that for beginners it is rlly hard to know what is Ai and what isnt? And one of the image (like the person above me said) looked REALLY like actual art, so even he was doubting himself. So first glance? Definitely not. And you can't blame people for not knowing what is Ai or not, as its whole "purpose" is to create some resemblance of real art. Seriously, did you listen with your ears closed?

[@MsAtos12]

@@ambientoblivion I think he lied to make a narrative. I am not that great as him, but can do so easily

[@ambientoblivion]

@@MsAtos12 What narrative would he be lying for?

[@ally_mation]

Sam out here speaking truth! One thing I have found "SOME" relief with Pinterest is flagging AI imagines as blurry. Its tedious but I have noticed my feed isn't showing as much shlop...Its still there but it helps a bit...At least I like to think it does.

[@kgxart]

Yes, that was I'm doing too! I think it does help a little, but it's a constant battle :')

[@Biggiecheese20]

It does I think as well!! My feed is usually clean, maybe 1 or 2 things pop up but I can tell easily

[@vespertellino]

huh!

[@NATA5II]

If you hide the stuff it also helps. Stuff you see from pinterest are a mix of suggestions of stuff you've already saved plus what you haven't saved that you might like. AI will be fed to you kinda as a default but I've had my account for a while and saved a shit ton and honestly haven't seen that much AI stuff on my homepage but only when i search for certain things.

[@ColorfulHalo]

I do the same and it seems to work. Gods forbid though you don't notice something is AI and don't flag it. The algorithm will swamp you in no time. Like on yt if the algorithm gives you a DYI video, you watch it out of boredom and suddenly everything is DYI.

[@klaw]

I literally was thinking about this YESTERDAY. tried to look up references for facial anatomy and the top results for anatomical diagrams were all AI. It was pretty easy to find out, since all the labelling in the diagram had jumbled words, but it still took me a minute. can’t do art studies from pinterest anymore 😔

[@tricivenola8164]

I am a Boomer and have watched this from inception. I'm happy to see you resisting. I spent my life creating art from scratch, for 15 years online with digital tools. Went back to analog drawing 25 years ago because I was tired of wrestling with machines to get the art out. Now I wrestle with social media platforms to share it. I am one bump from chucking it all and just sharing my stuff with the neighbors. You keep fighting. You're young, you've got time, and you aren't alone.

[@02yricky]

Great to highlight this. It's actually quite easy to filter for AI now. The problem will be in a few years when it's getting better and harder to detect. Even then though I think there could be some voting system where users can tag if they think something is AI and the higher ratio of AI tags some art gets the lower it is in the search priority. Maybe not perfect but they could at least try to sort this out.

[@WhyAliasIdontNeedOne]

So unskilled artists who put a shadow in the wrong place get accused for AI, great job!

[@ffc1a28c7]

can't wait until the ai slop posters will bot their own shit. At that point, you need some sort of verification for accounts

[@FTotox]

People keep saying that in some years it will be undetectable, and maybe you're right, but I kid you not, I almost instantly recognize AI images just because they are a complete VOID, I don't know how to explain this, but it happens with AI "music" as well, everything feels completely empty, it's like, it can follow patterns, but can't give them a soul, and I don't know if we are even close to give machines a soul and not just a brain...

[@wenwilloughby8197]

@@FTotox And yet on Facebook an AI 'photo' of some uncanny kid with 7 fingers and a nightmare-fuel gaze will get 20K shares because he's so 'precious'. You may be able to spot the subtleties of AI, but clearly the average person can't even count past five. We are doomed.

[@elingrome5853]

@@wenwilloughby8197 yep, thats about the size of it...

[@Havokgoesboarding]

Im so happy you address this. As a beginner artist, apart from the same 'emptiness' and lack of excitement you describe, i actually feel my learning process is at risk. I cant always tell if it is AI (esp with the muscle photos, you recognized the deltoid-bicep bit but thats beyond me right now...) and you just learn things wrong man. That pisses me off. We're slowly teaching 'eachother' the wrong things this way. Slippery slope.

[@aliothspectranet5678]

I wouldn't recommend learning the details from pinterest anyhow, looking at examples from pictures and others' art is great for surface/foundation understanding, but a deepdive requires the laid out explanations because even when for instance, deltoid bicep, is correctly made, you lack the vocabulary to discern that it is there or how it functions in other angles etc. there are a lot of art anatomy books and videos (though one still has to shop around a bit to get someone that actually knows what theyre talking about, one can look at curated resource lists like on the reddit boards for drawing, I personally enjoy Manga Materials) that cover this area

[@Zariel_999]

that's why you should use scientific books like anotomy textbooks for reference of that kind of stuff

[@ImNotQualifiedToSayThisBut]

Why would you study anatomy from other artists in the first place? That's like studying poetry from KZbin comments

[@ABCQTBREB]

you suck anyway

[@FoxulF]

2:35 CAUGHT

[@Cosmo_Hunter777]

These are your dreams 😂

[@FoxulF]

@Cosmo_Hunter777 oh hell yeah

[@TurboOkorunDuck]

OH HELL HE WAS TRIPPIN THAT DAY 🌝🌝🌝

[@Vectarr_]

I have completely quit using Pinterest and Google images. I now have to deep dive into special interest blogs and websites for most of my reference images, like the old days.

[@racheldeschaine]

I just noticed this after going on Pinterest the other day having not gone on in months! It makes me so glad that I’ve looked at so much AI that I can pretty much tell what’s fake but damn it’s sad I wish you could filter it out somehow

[@poyohime]

I'm so happy this is genuinely getting addressed by artists with a platform!! Pinterest has been my main source of reference as an art student, yet now I can barely even find any real photos of what I'm looking for anymore. It's ridiculous at this point

[@nayonikabiswas2051]

Yea instagram added this new AI character thing where you can create this character to chat with you. But personally I feel that is just digging a deeper hole. I mean the whole point of social media is interact with "humans" (we've come to a point of using that now) and adding this AI character chat just dismisses the entire point of people sharing creativity, meeting new people sharing ideas. I really don't understand why and how social media platforms are adapting to this

[@Biggiecheese20]

Like Snapchat too lol

[@Fool1999]

AI right now is making "solutions" where's there's no problems at all There's a hundred more important things it should be used for It's like every big company is rushing to slap AI on their product Imagine you go buy your kids some toys and they were 3d modelled by AI It's just sad that our cries will just hit a wall

[@rainofstars5809]

​@@Fool1999 I agree. Nothing useful from AI. For example, medicines for terrible diseases. Only some nonsense spam and huge profits of corporations like NVIDIA.

[@p0p525]

It's not just to chat with you. It chats with others and can post/comment. Dead internet theory is becoming realer by the second.

[@RubberRhino71]

I'm so mad because I haven't gotten any AI generated people references but my freaking FOOD references have been AI generated and I can't get it off, MY FREAKING FOOD PICS ARE YOU KIDING ME

[@cathrinegonzalez7686]

that’s insane 😮 -hope ya figure that out bro

[@workwork3240]

9:42 I don't see how someone thought of this idea and was like yeah people will love this. We will ruin social media like we ruined art

[@biblesforbreakfast]

Single tech bros that want a few hundred female AI bots to chat with.

[@aliteralboxofkelpjuice]

this is SUCH a huge issue, not only with art, but with clothes too??? like pinterest keeps showing me ai clothes from scam stores...

[@Berry1704]

dude i saw such a pretty dress and it was FUCKING AI. its not even AI that is an issue with clothes but those scammy ass fucking stores who steal the real design from someone and just do this. or they just dropship it so whatever u want u simply can not find it on non scammy website..

[@briezeee]

Same! And AI crochet… it’s VERY annoying.

[@Dani-zy6cf]

I agree ​@@briezeee

[@tomaccino]

Speaking of clothing, it's degrading to see celebrities without them in the feed. Like I just want to search and download gorgeous pics of aespa's Winter. I don't want to see her with double D chest or something...

[@DxvilAshxs]

When I saw the caption I read it as “samdoesarts is dead” 😭

[@yakovzamora8990]

HOW?!?!?!?!?????

[@QueerRat_XOXO]

@@yakovzamora8990 probably because "SamDoesArts" is right below the title.

[@celestia4439]

😂😂

[@someonesurviving]

Pinterest used to be my comfort app but now it just feels like a chaotic mess you just can't escape. Thank you for making this video Sam, people need to be aware of all this stuff.

[@Darkness_Damage]

even if they add an AI tag, the "AI artists" will not use the tag because they want more attention as a "real artist"

[@rainofstars5809]

true. as on pixiv and deviant

[@Kyosumari]

Yep. Even the AI bros will hide that they are AI bros because what they want isn't AI art, it's to be perceived as real artists without ever putting in any work, seeking profit and self interest by taking the easy way out and misleading people into supporting them. And yet, they destroy the very thing they wish to be by doing so, actively and willfully stealing from those who DID do the work to profit off of their blood, sweat, and tears. It's pathetic.

[@MargaretS-e1g]

There was a kid at a college that found out you use AI to detect AI. He programed an offshoot of midjourney to detect essays made by midjourney and flag them. If Pinterest could do that with AI slop to at least mark them, then they could improve the problem tremendously. AI is a tool and it's a tool that can be used against itself.

[@rainofstars5809]

@@MargaretS-e1g i tested ai detector on old sakimichan's art and it tells that her art ai ahaha

[@MargaretS-e1g]

@@rainofstars5809 Well we need to improve them first lol. But that won't happen unless we create a demand.

[@sunla]

My mother in law bought my husband Christmas gifts, one was a calendar and one was a sign to put on the backyard. Both were AI slop.

[@QuikBlazer]

I doubt she'd know. My mum keeps sending me AI videos that make me sick.

[@sunla]

@QuikBlazer that's what's so sad about the whole ordeal. People who want to cause harm are doing just that. But people with no ill intent are also causing harm, unbeknownst to them. Then when the people like us who are affected by it speak out about it, we get told we're joyless, and "why can't you just be more lighthearted about it?" I lost my career to this. My work is in those datasets, and yet people want us to just "lighten up" and buy things with AI plastered all over it and excuse people with no ill intent for not having their due diligence. I'm really tired of making excuses for those people. It's genuinely very lame of them. They are the ones funding the crooks. They are teaching people that generating images off a system that steals from artists and saturates their own market with slop is fine and dandy, and it is not. So we need to teach people the signs to look for, and if they don't care enough to even try, they are large part of the problem.

[@QuikBlazer]

@@sunla Firstly, I'm so sorry that you lost your job, and not because you were a bad employee, just because a souless, lifeless alternative was more economical. It isn't fair to you or anyone, and I hope you get another better job. Secondly, I agree. Generative AI in particular sickens me. There's something innately wrong that I feel when I look at AI videos, they've obviously got better, but the uncanny effect remains the same, It's vomit inducing and almost triggers my panic attack. Chatbots may be even worse. You see, I write on Quora as a hobby, it is, I mean was a superb space for writing and expressing how you feel, hell, even professors and historians swarmed the space with intellectuals. Now, it's so bad that I've lost all hope for it, AI generated images that give me goosebumps whenever I look at them, very obviously AI answers, and not to mention the literal racist bots that swarm it. Generative AI is a curse. I do believe that AI in itself can be a good tool as it's used in some hospitals to detect cancer, but the way it's being used by the majority makes me sick. I've tried telling the people I know, family included, this, but they simply do not care enough. They should take a lot of blame, but at the end of the day, it's up to lawmakers to do something, and they won't. I kind of wish that AI was heavily paywalled to curb this, It ruins my experiences in a lot of places.

[@QuikBlazer]

@@sunla I'm so sorry for what you experienced and I wholeheartedly agree. My favourite site, Quora was ruined by generative AI. AI isn't all bad as it's being used to detect Early cancer, but it's being abused

[@albatrozz3058]

@@QuikBlazer this made me LOL...sorry!😂😂

[@rinzler749]

I'm into arabic and farsi calligraphy and I visit pinterest everyday for inspiration and to collect good compositions I'm relieved that this side of art isn't affected by AI AI can never imitate that

[@Jynxsan]

As an arab ..this made me genuinely so happy

[@astrea555]

of course it can if someone bother to feed it to it.

[@Biggiecheese20]

You're so lucky it always sucks with writing words 😞

[@ARASH_SAMIEI]

Thats gotta be a hard one for ai Too many things overlapping would be hard for it to keep track of and it has to make sense at the end of it all

[@youre764]

@@astrea555AI can’t write English, it would be horrible at writing in Arabic, it could never understand how to make Arabic calligraphy without making it just a scribble

[@Renegan_Riyogan]

One of the biggest shit I've ever seen in Pinterest about AI is AI "artist" that put in their profile "don't steel" or "if you take MY WORK, don't remove watermark or I will file complaints about copyright infringement" 🤡🤡

[@dq3w]

Randomly clicked the video as this was a topic I was definitely interested in and it was a bit shocking seeing my Reddit comment at 6:04. Great video and I’m glad more attention is being brought to this issue. As someone who does 3D art it’s frustrating when you are trying to look for references whether it’s for anatomy, interior design, or even fashion and a majority of the results you find are unusable imitations that aren’t helpful in the slightest.

[@twotruckslyrics]

absolutely agreed. i did a lighting study of a coffee cup. i thought the image looked great, but then i looked closer while painting and :(

[@sadscientist9995]

Point and laugh everyone, it’s a Reddit user! 😂🫵

[@os6078]

omg thats mad seeing your own comment in the video hahaha 😆

[@berriaa]

@@sadscientist9995 ur weird

[@berriaa]

nvm saw his other pedophilic replies to people he's just rage baiting don't engage and don't comment on him prob botting for channel engagement

[@shroomy_loom]

YES THANK YOUUUUU!! Pinterest has taken such a nosedive, not only with all the AI crap, but all the ads and shopping promos to the point that I can’t scroll without seeing some kind of advertisement every 3 seconds. It has really fallen off and it makes me so sad

[@dukii_chann]

5:02 how is no one talking about this??? 😭

[@rishabhkashyap256]

💀💀💀💀

[@Zeddy_boy]

I FOUND THE COMMENT THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS FINALLY

[@acebase555]

A+ joke.

[@Rezwolf]

I've done exactly two pieces of art since this whole ai thing came out. I used my computer to make a model based on my art and it blew me away... there was always some small thing that was off but it killed me that a computer could not only figure out what i was doing but replicate it in seconds, stuff that took me weeks to make. only I would really be able to tell that its not as complex as i usually like to make things even if it is higher "quality",(i basically make face puzzles, 10+ faces sometimes, the ai could only get like 4-5) I made my current profile pic as a fast little project in like 2 hours, and 4 hours later someone had already made a high rez version of a demon praying, mocking it, a piece that woulda taken a human days or weeks to draw.. it was my most favorited piece on deviant art ever. deviant art is dead now. good luck finding real artists. im ngl, its really hard for me to find the will to pick my pen up and make something when i cant do better than a computer. and even if i did make something great i spent months on, it could get jacked and used in some wonky way in seconds. let alone rip a style like it has with you. it's really hard for me to not be depressed rn, and i would appreciate having an outlet that i could develop my skills on but there is no crossing that gap for me within the decade, next year all those artifacts you use to tell if its ai or not could be gone. who knows. probably need to just make a community of confirmed non ai artists. that's probably the only way to combat this.

[@cathrinegonzalez7686]

interesting idea -i agree they should add it to their violations and review part of the app/web whatever and have humans (‘knowledgeable’ ones) review what’s reported or like have a button (tech shit): for -# petitions made on a single pin it gets placed on hold or whatever and it has like 3 strikes or sum for the hold before it’s killed idk 🤷‍♀️

[@phillycheesesteak1028]

1:24 THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!!

[@andrew08]

Bro casually found the one piece

[@St.Panduh]

Can we get much higherrrrr?

[@d4red3v1l8]

Pinterest used to be good, but now I can’t always find what I’m looking for when I’m trying to draw

[@rocky-fuller]

It was always full of stolen and uncredited stuff so I wouldn't say it never really was good to begin with

[@catcactus1234]

@@rocky-fullerTrue but you could at least find someone in the comments posting the credits, or you could just reverse search the image to find the original artist. It was definitely better in terms of finding original, real content.

[@youre764]

if you search for something too complicated or not close enough to what you normally see, it throws the search out the window and gives you another fyp that has nothing to do with what you want to see

[@MyNamesHunter75]

@@rocky-fuller Even if it's full of stolen artist work at least you could reverse image search and find the actual artist behind it, i'd rather that than having to shift through a ton of ai images just to find a real proper reference because i'm not trying to study an ai image because I'm just not going to get much out of it and it's just going to give you a lot of bad habits

[@predaytor]

I'm a software developer, but I have an artist sister who is trying to start a career soon. All I can say is that the whole purpose of AI is utterly disgusting and fundamentally unnatural. I just can't stand it. The future of music, drawings, and literally anything that humans can create, especially in terms of art, is either mixed with this crap or completely loses its current form that was used before AI - traditional drawings or digital art, which was special, whether bad or good, carefully created by a HUMAN. It makes me sick. It shouldn't exist and should be banned at the government level worldwide. The threat it poses is extraordinary. In 10-15 years, everything will lose its true identity, even real evidence like film or video. Introduction to computer graphics/generative art was a natural transition for the artist into the digital world, while the use of AI is simply inhuman and worthless.

[@beogeek]

10-15 years lol try like another 3-4 years!

[@gatsu_ninja4723]

Womp Womp! Meanwhile im making tons of money using AI lmao

[@beogeek]

@@gatsu_ninja4723 good for you mate, enjoy it while it lasts.

[@cube5750]

@@gatsu_ninja4723 wait till your useless job gets replaced by another AI

[@cXms-k8y]

And you think humans creating so called art is natural Our surface level biological function stop at eating and reproducing The art we do is a waste of time The work we do is a waste of time

[@fireflymiesumae]

I noticed this months ago when I was trying to find good wallpapers. Pinterest is the first and sadly won't be the last to fall.

[@HeisPoitto]

The whole internet will become just a cesspool of unusable things. Fake humans, fake influencers, fake images, Facebook bots, fake news, fake videos. Also, AI training data comes from the internet. So, AI will start to learn from it's own vomit. Generating more and more distorted vomit. Videos, images, music, speech, text. The % of real things in the web will go down, until it's at 0%. And AI slop will be 100%. At that point, everyone will just log off permanently. And live like it was the 1960s, no computers, no cellphones (except for calling).

[@mayalisgame714]

Pinterest used to be so useful, now it’s just filled with AI.

[@wunzewo]

forreal

[@matheussanthiago9685]

oh how the mighty have fallen

[@thomlionsdale7590]

Great vid and theme. I was an OG beta user for Pinterest and used it extensively for a decade as a storyboard artist, illustrator and concept artist. Sadly it’s not really part of my process anymore. I find Instagram saves are more helpful these days, and that system is trash.

[@kari_matles]

It is so HARD to get the result I need lately. I feel like I have to spend half an hour for Pinterest to finally start to show me the results I actually need. Or not. A year or two ago, I could easily find lots of cool comics dedicated to some fandoms or just to people's OCs. Not anymore. But the most horrifying thing to me was searching for a specific artist and not getting a SINGLE result that wasn't someone's AI "art piece" inspired by this specific artist. Not a SINGLE one.

[@Andre-qo5ek]

we absolutely need a AI filter on searches

[@Elloshin]

Something I also noticed (I haven’t watched the full video yet so i apologise if you’ve already brought this up) is the insane amount of ads. If I for example try and look for a new cool pair of pants, some sewing projects or ideas on how to decorate your sketchbook etc almost 60% of what I see is ads. I noticed it too when in the begging you searched for “semi realistic drawing” or something of the sorts. Out of the tighter first results two were ads. It’s very hard to come by original concepts to get inspired by when everything is trying to get you to spend money.

[@thesunthrone]

It's a direct result of this. Website fills with slop, human traffic dies down, website panics and increases ad amounts to try and compensate. Endgame is dead websites that just get taken down because their companies run out of money to host all this slop that's produced faster and faster. Traffic and server space ain't free, and the ease with which slop is generated, as well as the complete LACK OF TASTE for the slop fiends that just upload their 700 results for their prompt all the time... it's like a self-filling landfill.

[@yetiironworks]

I've learned to click on the first image that closely matches what I'm looking for and then do the "similar images" function. Then it only shows images with no ads. Still does nothing to eliminate the AI slop unfortunately.

[@MiracleMan-ol6gd]

Most ads on Pintetest seem to be dropship companies. I ordered a drone that was 70% off for about $80 and I received a drone that's on the market for $20. It's all about money and tricking people. Treat others how you want to be treated seems obsolete.

[@almost_harmless]

I remember when AI started to get good and I got concerned as an artist. I was looking at a video that covered it, and did not expect the comments in that video to be so full of people who displayed glee that they could now make things artists spent years to learn in seconds, but specifically, they also had no sympathy or empathy with those who would lose their work. Even more than that, they found pleasure in that fact. That made me lose a lot of faith in humanity. A marker that something has been made by a human hand should be made. That distinction might be worth a lot in the coming years, and perhaps only those with the means can pay for art done by humans, but at least it would show that true artistry was and is valued.

[@MangaGamified]

True but I also heard about glazing, not sure tho how long it would take for it to become a household service that's simple and free if not cheap enough, like AI it still needs quite some decent hardware or decent cloud service. Any theories of redirection? like does physical art like statues or semi-3D paintings will be more appreciated cause cause AI can't sculpt or print IRL?

[@PixelSubstream]

People who can't make art tend to see artists as elitists and blessed people who are naturally good so anything that takes us down a peg or puts them on the same level makes them happy

[@exhaustedpunk1477]

The thing that gets me is that everybody loves to use and see what artists do, but at the same time it is also completely normalized for people to disrespect those who make art for a living. Even if they need art, when it's essential in collaboration with their work or something like entertainment that they cannot see their lives without, they still catalog art and the people making it as something that is below them, beneath "real jobs", something you should not strive to get compensation or recognition for. There’s this vitriol with which people speak of artists demanding simple human decency and respect for their work; all these ai nutheads wanting to steal and claim as theirs the artstyle of talented people without consequence while having the opportunity to scream their own frustrations to the artist's faces: "look, the machine can also make it so you are nothing special!". Not helping at all that the suits everywhere who make the most money while exploiting artists are pushing so hard for ai to be inserted EVERYWHERE so they can evolve to the next step of not even paying or giving credit to creators anymore.

[@LucentSky]

@@exhaustedpunk1477It’s an anti-human sentiment that also goes beyond artists, we’re just the ones that got hit first (I do think we will survive though) but capitalism at its worst is already about profit over humans so people in power would love nothing more than for humans to not connect with each other, and get attached to fake things like an AI friend or AI companion. To consume endlessly , to have nothing, and turn against each other, to compete for scraps. Don’t go down without a fight, value your real connections with other humans now more than ever. Support people that own the art stores, truck drivers, grocery store workers, and humans in every field of work but especially those that are undermined. Focus on face to face interactions now more than ever, and do not give up. This is about the future of humanity as a whole. How beautiful is your intelligence and very essence that an artificial version was made as a disgusting attempt to undermine the blueprint? The artificial version could not exist without you and without all of the content that it fed on of other humans wether it was our likeness, our collective art, our collective music, our collective writing, etc.

[@Ho00ba_B0ba]

​@@LucentSkyYeah, I agree. I also think it's the fact that almost all of these things take effort, time and work to achieve the desired result. Art? Practice and try out new things, you will fail, but if you're consistent and doing it right, you will get better. Friendships or any kind of relationships? It requires real people who won't respond like some dolls made for you and you are required to keep up the relationship so it lasts. Saw a few teens and/or young adults say that they prefer talking to bots than their real friends and that was scary. And any other field, it requires work and effort. One major thing that pushed this besides greed is laziness and entitlement from some people and quick fixes. To be honest, I'm studying EE now and aiming for robotics but seeing the technology and intelligence wasted on this is kinda frustrating to be honest. Now you have AI and tech bros who have barely any understanding of actual work that goes into programming, people who cannot be bothered to put in any effort, etc. If it brings any comfort, at least the entitled tech bros will be replaced one day too. But yeah, it's really sad. To be honest I think this use of technology and knowledge isn't really progression, just stagnation.

[@dragonmaster5983]

I'm so glad you are addressing this problem. I actually got rid of Pintrest because of the overflow of AI and too many ads. I am an artist and I also crochet, and Pinterest was showing so many (obviously) AI crochet projects and people have the nerve to actually sell these crochet patterns that are flawed and don't work out the way the picture looks. Pinterest should ban all AI, and until they do that I'm not wasting my time on them.

[@jurassicjaws]

THANK YOU for mentioning the hair inspo pics. That has been a massive issue that no one is talking about. I was told by a colleague that I was just jealous of the models (you know, people that don't actually exist) and I showed her an AI image of one of the popular "models" where she has a 10% opacity overlay of a giant eyeball over her face and wonky, broken jewelry that would disappear into the model's flesh. Colleague didn't talk schlit after that. And as an artist myself, I stopped posting my works online after a ton of them were stolen and posted on sites like RedBubble for sale on various merchandise. Even my satire works were stolen, which is comedic, because when I uploaded my satirical pieces to my own RedBubble account, they were removed for "not being satirical enough" according to an admin... but that's a different story. AI "art" is theft.

[@vitamincrc8267]

Thank you so much for this video!! It’s been going downhill for a few years, and now between the ads and AI images it’s borderline unusable. I’ve had my account since I was a child (like when you had to be emailed an invitation to it) and miss the pre-algorithm pinterest soo badly, like when you only saw stuff by people you followed and your irl friends. You had to seek out boards and accounts that spoke to you, and that exploration was so exciting. I miss being able to curate my experience and I miss having real images. There’s even like predatory fake ads for the Joann’s craft store that lead to a non-Joann’s site, and I get these every time I start looking up more beadwork or sewing type stuff. Automatically start getting *literal scams* as ads. How are those advertisers even allowed? It’s become a wasteland 💔

[@the-sillycate]

This is how I feel about modern social media. I love AI but I miss being able to choose my own content on my feed. Everything now is just "suggestions" that I can't turn off.

[@bluskyjaay4607]

Wow thanks for talking about this… I love Pinterest, but I’m not so good at noticing AI stuff at a glance, and I honestly had no idea it was so saturated with fake images… I’m so bummed by that fact. Thanks for bringing it into the light!

[@honeycomeh1978]

I totally agree, it’s ALL AI now. It is completely annoying and a complete burden. I don’t even wanna use it anymore tbh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who is experiencing this CRAP. Ty for this vid bro. You’re great!😊

[@javi4591]

I used to want to be an Artist. I get inspired every time I see someone good a their craft creating great things. But now, whenever I search for a picture of an Anime Character or something, I get bombarded with these seemingly perfect, mass produced AI renditions of the characters I like and I'm like "well. I guess I should just give up"