When searching for #ReferenceImages you might want to avoid ai generated ones. They have already flooded the internet and it's tedious to filter them out manually. There's a simple trick to help with that, at least on google image search: add 'before:2022' to your search term.
When you support ARTISTS directly, you are literally helping them survive! You are contributing to their well being and independence. Please do not support AI (they scrape the Internet and take Copyrighted images for their data sets) or stolen imagery from overseas. Sure, it's easier to shop on Amazon/Walmart or use an AI image. But easy isn't always ethical. Seek out REAL artists!!
Art is a HUMAN thing. Art isn't artificial or created by programs.
Seek out PEOPLE artists that use their minds to create art. And then share our work! We REALLY appreciate it!
If you post art generated by
an AI program that has stolen art from millions of none-consensual artists without any compensation for their hard work please at least identify it as such.
I am very tired of this.
@Em0nM4stodon If in fact that activity is permitted under the fair use doctrine in the U.S. (according to several legal commentators I've read) maybe it's high time to revisit the fair use doctrine. 👀
@Em0nM4stodon yes of course, opt-in is the way. My point was about getting the references anyway. Even if humans opted to have their works used for training, I'd still want to know whos work is used as the foundation of something the bot is creating for me. Say it generates an amazing landscape, I'd love to be able to checkout the original works and credit the humans behind the "other amazing landscapes" who made it possible for the bot to even have a notion of "landscape".
Traditional artists using AI for reference not realizing the end result still looks AI… Sigh. I feel sad for you. When you give up your own imagination in the creative process you’re taking away the soul of your art—what makes it unique and timeless.