Where are these programs being actively used? Or are these programs being fed images also from this site??

I'm not going to put the link here.

While any LoRa can be trained with any image by a user, and that's necessarily a bad thing, there are bots on every kind of art site that simply scrape all images and tags to train LoRas.

In other words, bad actors will simply train a LoRa on an artist's gallery, and even worse actors will then sell the results.
There's no real way to stop them either, only to slow down bots. But in the end, any user could invest the time and do it.

However, don't let that be a reason to simply stop posting art anywhere. There'll always be bad actors, and i fear this cat is out of the bag already, but there's luckily still a majority out there that finds this behaviour unacceptable, and will spot, report, or refuse to engage with AI generated art for profit.

Why report it? It sounds like a great thing. AI is a fun tool to play around with.

Profiting from other artists work via AI generation is just as scummy as peddling NFTs or crypto.

It can't and shouldn't be allowed.

Exactly this

Like, I can kinda understand dicking around with it for fun (tho imo it's nowhere near as fun as committing to pen and paper), but when you're trying to make money off of what's essentially stolen work, that's when I draw the line.

Maybe for fun and games, yes. But as a way to replace someone who puts heart and soul into their work, just to save money and profit off of it, HELL NO!!!

Ah, what a time to be a physical media artist

I wish these sites that use AI art was banned

hey geltydrake sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm more then happy to report ai art selling especially if its ripping off from this community but I hate to admit I have sometrouble telling the part from digital from ai art sometimes maybe you can tell me how to spot the difference ?

Eyes and hands. Most models still struggle with adding 'life' to the eyes and making the hands correctly. Even so, there's an overall kind of 'realistic' shading that's just a tad off. Even so, if it's trained on a specific artist's work, and that artist doesn't upload it anywhere, it's just out there, it can be a good idea to poke the artists and see if they are aware of it, if you want to be proactive about it.

right o.o

While i am not generally opposed to the use of AI, training a LoRa on stolen media is likely illegal and certainly amoral.

I think AI is fun to play around with, but it's already a grey area when using it for personal use with dubious datasets.

If some one however is found to sell AI art without either an indistinguishable or self-trained dataset using art owned by the artist, they ought to be reported.

That's my take on it.

I see the comment section here is easy pickings for adding people to a block list!