Didn't I loosely touch this subject before??
a year ago
I did, yes, but on Furaffinity notes. To make a long story short (aside from the example I'll provide below.) You know what I "love" in the pitiful/sad sense? people that try to bullshit you on Discord, especially "artists" looking for a commission. Like, I get a fair number of these, random artists from Furaffinity, Bluesky, Deviantart etc that see me, love my characters that I get commissions/adopts of and offer to do some art for me. The conversation usually goes as follows.
Random Artist: *Adds me on Discord out of fucking nowhere.*
Me: Uh, hey? how are you?
RA: I'm well, how are you?
Me: Good.
RA: Oh btw? I'm a artist.
Me: Good for you.
RA: Can I commission something for you?
Me: No cash, sorry.
RA: Can I atleast show you **my** art and what style I do?
Me: Sure, knock yourself out chief.
RA: *Shows me four completely different pieces of art that's giving me major red flags.*
Me: *Nods contently while doing a background search on the pictures.*
RA: Well? what do you think?
Me: Not bad... for the record you're fully admitting this is you right? *pulls up profile of one of the pictures.*
RA: Err, what I meant to say was I can commission you anything you want in any style you want.
Me: Riiiiight....good to know. *Removes and blocks.*
Like, if you're going to try and bullshit me? atleast make your story believable.
Now if you opened up with "oh hey, I'm a pretty good digital artist that can do almost any style within reason, here's a small sample of what styles I can do coherently enough." while showing me the pictures? then yea, tiny bit more believable. But full on admitting the art is yours? nah, not going to Mcfly Marty.
Random Artist: *Adds me on Discord out of fucking nowhere.*
Me: Uh, hey? how are you?
RA: I'm well, how are you?
Me: Good.
RA: Oh btw? I'm a artist.
Me: Good for you.
RA: Can I commission something for you?
Me: No cash, sorry.
RA: Can I atleast show you **my** art and what style I do?
Me: Sure, knock yourself out chief.
RA: *Shows me four completely different pieces of art that's giving me major red flags.*
Me: *Nods contently while doing a background search on the pictures.*
RA: Well? what do you think?
Me: Not bad... for the record you're fully admitting this is you right? *pulls up profile of one of the pictures.*
RA: Err, what I meant to say was I can commission you anything you want in any style you want.
Me: Riiiiight....good to know. *Removes and blocks.*
Like, if you're going to try and bullshit me? atleast make your story believable.
Now if you opened up with "oh hey, I'm a pretty good digital artist that can do almost any style within reason, here's a small sample of what styles I can do coherently enough." while showing me the pictures? then yea, tiny bit more believable. But full on admitting the art is yours? nah, not going to Mcfly Marty.
AI is not a bad tool itself, there is surely great things we can make with, but so far, there are only bad things...