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Go check Angiemeww out (plus a clarification on the new art)
6 months ago
Hey all. 
Angiemeww is a new artist who is very affordable and extremely pleasant to get along with. She is new to the community so I highly suggest you guys go and say hi to her.
My newest upload is from her, and I love it. I did, however, get some messages from concerned friends that her art is AI; I can assure you that it isn't as I have seen her progress from the sketch stage of my commission. The main mistakes that were in the original upload (missing tail and less fingers in one of the poses) were ones that I failed to catch in the rough draft and she still fixed them when I pointed them out after-the-fact.
I know AI has become a major issue for artists, but please remember that anatomical mistakes do not automatically mean that a piece of art was generated by AI. I've been around for years and I've seen plenty of artists - veteran ones at that - make anatomical mistakes especially with hands due to their complexity. They're normally caught in the draft stages but it still happens.
The last thing I want is to have new artists like Angie be scared away from posting their art (furry or otherwise) because people automatically assume that their mistakes automatically mean their stuff is AI generated. Angie was so nervous when I told her what my friends said (especially since she had gotten accused of it in a prior picture) that she even showed me the different layers of her work to prove it was non-AI despite me already seeing her drafts. She's a very young artist at 19 (as labeled on her profile page) so even if she has been drawing since her childhood she still doesn't have as much experience drawing multiple complex poses while also on a time limit as compared to older artists who just naturally have more years of experience. It's reasonable to make mistakes like she did.
There's three reasons I'm making this post:
1) To get more eyes on new artists like Angie.
2) To clear up any misconceptions I've seen on the art I got from her and uploaded yesterday.
3) To ask people in the community to give new artists a chance to make mistakes without automatically assuming that their art is AI-generated. I've seen a few artists who have that smooth "AI look", but remember: AI only generates what it creates by scraping existing art - meaning that it had to scrape images from artists who already had similar styles to that to begin with. Let's not discourage newer artists from posting their work by immediately assuming it's AI especially if said artist explicitly points out they don't like that stuff like Angie. I'm not saying that there aren't bad actors, but I also think it's better to give someone the benefit of the doubt in this case. I'd hate for us to suddenly have a community of newer artists too scared to post their stuff because they're nervous they'd be called out as AI when they aren't; that would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater and that won't help the anti-AI cause at all.
Angiemeww is a new artist who is very affordable and extremely pleasant to get along with. She is new to the community so I highly suggest you guys go and say hi to her. My newest upload is from her, and I love it. I did, however, get some messages from concerned friends that her art is AI; I can assure you that it isn't as I have seen her progress from the sketch stage of my commission. The main mistakes that were in the original upload (missing tail and less fingers in one of the poses) were ones that I failed to catch in the rough draft and she still fixed them when I pointed them out after-the-fact.
I know AI has become a major issue for artists, but please remember that anatomical mistakes do not automatically mean that a piece of art was generated by AI. I've been around for years and I've seen plenty of artists - veteran ones at that - make anatomical mistakes especially with hands due to their complexity. They're normally caught in the draft stages but it still happens.
The last thing I want is to have new artists like Angie be scared away from posting their art (furry or otherwise) because people automatically assume that their mistakes automatically mean their stuff is AI generated. Angie was so nervous when I told her what my friends said (especially since she had gotten accused of it in a prior picture) that she even showed me the different layers of her work to prove it was non-AI despite me already seeing her drafts. She's a very young artist at 19 (as labeled on her profile page) so even if she has been drawing since her childhood she still doesn't have as much experience drawing multiple complex poses while also on a time limit as compared to older artists who just naturally have more years of experience. It's reasonable to make mistakes like she did.
There's three reasons I'm making this post:
1) To get more eyes on new artists like Angie.
2) To clear up any misconceptions I've seen on the art I got from her and uploaded yesterday.
3) To ask people in the community to give new artists a chance to make mistakes without automatically assuming that their art is AI-generated. I've seen a few artists who have that smooth "AI look", but remember: AI only generates what it creates by scraping existing art - meaning that it had to scrape images from artists who already had similar styles to that to begin with. Let's not discourage newer artists from posting their work by immediately assuming it's AI especially if said artist explicitly points out they don't like that stuff like Angie. I'm not saying that there aren't bad actors, but I also think it's better to give someone the benefit of the doubt in this case. I'd hate for us to suddenly have a community of newer artists too scared to post their stuff because they're nervous they'd be called out as AI when they aren't; that would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater and that won't help the anti-AI cause at all.
*reads on* ... Ah... Hm.
Sadly, the rise of AI is affecting all artists without a doubt—but especially those who haven’t yet made a name for themselves in the community.
The worst part about this situation is that those who accuse others of using AI tools are usually not even artists themselves. They’re often people who haven’t even drawn a single hand in their lives, and don’t understand the complexity and struggle it takes to truly perfect those skills.
From what I’ve seen, these accusations often come from alt accounts or people with no real presence or activity in the community.
But without a doubt, people like Deiser help make this journey for new artists a lot more pleasant and welcoming.
Today, he’s doing this for me—and I thank him from the bottom of my heart. I hope to stick around long enough to one day be able to help someone else the same way.
I appreciate you so much💗