Retro-vagabond - Latest Fixation

Old men serving cunt!!

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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late night thoughts 

This started a while back as experimental thumbnails and evolved into a small intimate sequence ♡

GUYS HOLY SHIT! Okay okay so we can all agree this is incredible and truly the steddie art ever, right?! Well thank @punkzcakes for this cuteness! I had the pleasure of commissioning her for this piece and wow I cannot stress enough how lovely she is to work with. She’s incredibly kind and communicates every step of the way, updating you on the piece and ensuring that you are happy with it. She is a very talented artist and an all around lovely person. Please check out her stuff!

#artists

shout out to the older woman in the snack aisle at walmart who just answered her phone and snapped “i’m in an important meeting, what do you want?”