No to AI

Guess I'm posting this now. I wouldn't have a problem with AI generated images (it felt kind of similar to audio sampling done by DJs at the start) but what many developers and their supporters are allowing (ai generated images for profit) is a problem because it is essentially art theft. You're letting your machine scrape commercial, non-free-to-use images and art. If you use these AI image generators and then post the result as your own, that is not actually your own work. You cannot profit off this as that is in fact, illegal. It would be like you nicking bread from various bakers, mashing the stuff together and then declaring the result your own. The fact that many of the devs behind these tools have not put an explicit "NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY" on their sites is strange.

As someone who studied tech a bit in school, the end-user process seems more similar to commissioning art, or children playing with a new toy, except many of the users don't seem to know how it works, and are not interested in art-making itself, but only the "result" and also claim it as their own creation with the attitude that "real art" is dead or something. It's a bit sad for me as a teacher who sees so much more from students being inspired to make art and discovering new things in the process itself. That these adults have given up on art so quickly or were never interested in it creatively, is maybe just a sign that AI image generators are too early for the internet or something.

Artstation was already a bit strange to use, but the uploading and posting experience has been nice so far. I guess we won't be seeing as much original art on here anymore? It's just that no 3D or 2D artist will want to post their commercial or non-commercial work anymore, knowing that this work will be used to the same extent as clipart from the 00s. Artstation as a portfolio site should be more supportive of their users in this sense.

original image (or at least where I got it from): https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YK5QzK
other images are screenshots of the stablediffusion TOS: https://stability.ai/stablediffusion-terms-of-service
Artstation's news about AI generated images on their site: https://help.artstation.com/hc/en-us/articles/11451085663501-AI-Artwork-on-ArtStation https://twitter.com/ArtStationHQ/status/1603095240180645888