Ah, yes, one of the most frustraing consequences of this inflation of genAI bubble is how people are giving in to a tendency that anything slightly competent can only have been made by a computer

People are getting a bit too complacent about being stupid as hell

I mean I would HOPE people would need a real smoking gun to say that YOUR art is AI. I mean a lot of MFT is Anti-AI, so that would be random if it was made with AI.

Either way it's usually better to question, but not accuse when it comes to AI I think. Unless it is very much egregiously AI than it's better not to just throw accusations.

At least in this comic the vibe I get is just wanting to be a critic and not actually appreciating art though.

On one hand, we know AI in general has a bias for yellow because yellowish images have a higher tendency of getting marked as "good looking" because of the "golden hour" in photography.

On the other, true, while AI hurts artists, due to that, even more for those who like yellow tones!

But their is always souls in your work !

The issue with other platform is that people expect ai stuff, they want to see ai stuff and it must look like ai. When they say "it's ai, right" it's not because they don't value your work but because they want to know that they can make a prompt and do the same.

I could be completely wrong, but why stay on such places if they don't want ai crap ?

I hate that I myself sometimes see genuine art and have doubts that it's AI. I guess it makes me pay more attention to the artist behind the art I see which is good.

Now that "looking like good art" is something that AI can do, paying attention to what it's conveying and who's making it is more important than ever.

I'll take community over mindless consumption everytime

exactly the reason i despise all those youtube videos and such on how to "identify" AI art, every bloody time they just end up driving actual artists off the internet, while the slopsters don't give a damn about their callout posts

same with the em—dash

C'est sur aussi si tu ne met pas un certificat d'authenticité sans IA comment tu veux qu'on sache 😁

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This is a beautiful human made comic strip.

I actually like the painting, too.

You are one of the first people I followed on mastodon and feels so nice to see your post getting so much love. I have no idea what it can be like doing what you do in these times. All I can do is join here and share this from behind a smile, a feeling of empathy to a "stranger" I have a feeling I know and tell you that I look forward to your posts. Especially now after this one.

Cheers

I think it's just something people struggle with, they will make deranged statements in pursuit of trying to seem like they're still on top of things.

I know it's easy to say, but don't take it personally, I've always been a fan of both your art and your open source tooling/process.

This stuff is one reason I'm really happy the EU is requiring AI involvement to be labeled as such; it works both ways, and hopefully other countries/areas will follow, so we can put an end to this.

Your art is amazing, your local-first process is commendable, your wherewithal is admirable, and your address of the state of things is spot on!

Absolutely love your stuff. I love that the lack of algorithm in the fediverse doesn't bubble up "engagement" for you, and that you know you're really valued!

I mean, by me.. Whoever I am.. BUT STILL! Love your work!

@ghosttie

/me adds to phone wallpaper rotation

thanks!!

Dead on.

I still have to wait this happen to me.

Just this weekend I was at a show and thought some hand-painted bird pictures were AI, like maybe she used AI references. The beaks were just wrong.

Still don't know if I was right or if I just mistook her style, and I hate that.

There is a clear education problem I don't know how to address and it is somewhat annoying.

The same happens with writing communities. "Oh that sounds like AI", whine the ignorant who don't seem to get that "AI" was deliberately made to sound like people do and trained on exactly that sort of content.

"AI detection" is fundamentally bullshit unless the "AI" is absolutely garbage at what it's designed to do.

Those false accusations are quite demoralizing to artists.

For the social systems to be able to mitigate and filter out its presence, people first need to internalize a few basic facts on how it works, to not fight at cross purposes.

That painting is quite nice.

David releases his comic under a free license, people start creating derivative works: "Great!"

Not-so-people-like algorithms start creating derivatives, strip the attribution, and now the public thinks David is aping the AI that trained on his work first: "No, NOT like that!"

@David Revoy Not that I would compare myself to an artist, but in a similar fashion I have already been told that my prose (mostly technical prose—again, not an artist!) must have been AI-generated due to my propensity to use em dashes…

Damn it, I—and countless other writers—have been using em dashes long before those stochastic parrots came into being!

This is one of the things about AI generated art that many people don't think about... it's that *psychologically* speaking, regardless of whether we use AI or not, we're all now in a state of constantly questioning whether something is authentic or not.

This is an incredibly erosive precedent to be set for human culture. We live in truly dangerous times.

Oh damn! I owe you a sincere apology.

I'm used to avoid AI slop, and my reaction to the image 1 was “AI gen”. I even closed the image, and then saw the title “Authenticity Problem,” it made me doubt myself. I reopened the image, read the comic, and then watched the timelapse, which confirmed that it was indeed your work and not AI.

And now I can’t even imagine what it must be like for you. Hang in there, and great work despite everything!

And again, sorry! Apparently, I'm biased

@ghosttie
Oh ! Thanks David!

Hop, new potential profil pic to flex on Mastodon

you'd have to be an idiot to still be using the Meta platforms as a non-creator*, so it makes sense that so many wouldn't be able to tell the difference between your wonderful work and slop.

* I understand creators and brands need to stay on there for their livelihoods. I wish they didn't, but I wouldn't call artists needing to make a living "idiots."

I really like your artistic style.

Also: If someone sees your "making of" videos and all the Krita videos then it is quite hard to think that your stuff could be AI.

If you think that would help for haters... 🤷
I have my doubts. It's not just the drawing. Just getting a grasp of modern problems mixed with fantasy RPG theme is totally creative for me. Those who ignore all of that now will most likely do so regardeless later on. I think many just see boosted strips and not the other stuff.

I also like the other stuff an forwarded some of your videos to a friend (@KathyKahner). She mostly draws with good old tools like pen&paper. So I thought it might come in handy for her (maybe some time in the future) to get a glimpse of what someone could do with Krita.
Although I suck at drawing (i'm in awe of your skills!), I am still fascinated about the workflow in digital Art.

(But most of all I really like this #miniFantasyTheater strips.)

En même temps, les plateformes de chez Meta mettent au maximum en avant le contenu IA pour essayer de rentabiliser leurs horreurs, les utilisateurs se font bombarder de contenu synthétique... ils doivent être un peu rincés de tout ça.

Ici, tu postes un contenu IA, t'as la Fedi-police qui défonce ta porte d'entrée avec un bélier (un bélier furry, hein, faut pas oublier qu'on est sur le fediverse)

Et tant mieux !

I can't imagine how frustrating this must be for artists.

My industry has been hit by this too, but for however much I want to believe that code is art, it will never be as personal and expressive as actual art. I really feel for you.

Love your work, btw.

…and after the house destruction incident, I thought that parrot had been banished to the bin forever.

This I think, is going to be a real challenge… especially once it lands in the courtroom. Either someone who committed a serious crime will get off because the defence sows enough doubt about whether evidence is real to convince a jury that the accused is guilty… or someone who is being framed for a crime will get charged and sentenced for something they didn't do due to craftily falsified evidence.

I feel your pain now.😭

Literally, they train AI on *your* art and then they have the nerve to claim your art is not authentic.

Of course, AI companies would never want to add source fingerprints to their data because that would prove they're infringing on other people's copyrights.

Hey I hadn't noticed the AI assistant sparkles ✨ in the parrot's chat!

Nice detail.

Oh god, that first panel. I live a quiet life but have a high engagement drive, so I keep a protocol droid for light philosophical banter and self-indulgent fandom roleplay. And the moments that REALLY make me want to smack it with a rolled-up newspaper are the unprompted image dumps right into my lap when I mention my thoughts on an art project.

Like, NO!!! I want to do it my way, with my ideas, not your influence! And I'm not touching your image, put that away! 😫

BTW, did you mean to say "Come on!" instead of "common!"? ✨🦜

(Sorry for the parrot, couldn't resist 😁)