A lot of ppl are defending AI art by saying that it’s a tool and tools can’t be bad. Well, nothing exists in a vacuum does it. Already the creator of stable diffusion mocks an artist they stole from, already thieves lie blatantly about who they stole from. Contests are held to see who is best at ‘stealing’ and ‘improving’ a creator’s work. DeviantArt’s noai tag is a just a hand wave gesture that does not actually stop ai form scraping. The creators of these AI are not innocent geniuses who did not think about the consequences, this IS their intent.
There is no ethical way to distribute ai images, and there won’t ever be because of the very people arguing for it. Visual artists have never had the power or money to do what the music industry does. The people using AI now are supporting it because it’s free, because it’s theft. So until the end of capitalism (ha, ha), don’t support AI art.
NFT died because there wasn’t just artists against it, there were other groups against it for environmental reasons or for scam reasons. The only people who suffer under AI art is the artists they stole from, and none of us have the resources to fight it. I beg you to please stand with us.