@midlet here. Your favorite absentee community leader. It's time we had the talk. Where does art come from? It comes from people. Human beings, good talk.
So it's long been the rule in OCA that AI filters, and AI art are not allowed, but honestly when I created this rule software like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion didn't really exist, at least not at their current power level. What did exist was software that would take a photo and using AI "repaint" or "make art" out of it. I guess at this point you could (and I do) argue that this next wave is even worse, where there is literally no image input necessary to create...something.
People have been posting AI work in here with impunity for a while now, and the honest truth is I don't really have time to be in here being the art police. Let's just keep it real, there's currently not a lot of eyeballs on this stuff. I wish that wasn't the case, but it's the reality. All that said, I still keep an eye on my community, throw some upvotes around, put some stuff on the curated content page, I've been totally lax on moderation because it's too much work. My mods have held down the fort in long stretches of absence from me. I appreciate you all, but I'm coming down off my mountain to purge the community of AI art.
This is AI art btw
I'd love to say I don't have a problem with AI art, and it's just not for this community, but as I've learned more about it, and how it works, the companies behind it and all the nitty gritty, I actually do have a problem with it. That said, I'm currently investigating it. Keep your friends close and enemies closer sort of thing. I'm on Midjourney, I know what it's capable of, I know that if someone really wants to they could definitely mask the fact that they're using AI. The image I posted above has some tell tale signs, but I want to post other examples I've made that don't have any.
Other than the nonsense text which can easily be removed
Yes, I know. Holy shit. This is also a tiny sample. Over the past 5 days I've generated over 500 images I think learning the ins and outs. I may make a seperate post on my account talking about this, but back to the main point of this post.
AI ART IS NOT ALLOWED IN OCA.
I'm sure there are other communities that will happily allow it, this is not the community for that. This is for actual art made by people. Furthermore...
AI ART POSTS WILL BE MUTED
IF YOU POST AI ART WITH THE INTENT TO PASS IT OFF AS YOUR OWN ART YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE MUTED FROM POSTING IN OCA.
This is seriously shitty and dishonest and I'm disappointed that I'm seeing people doing this.
This is your warning. It's not my fault if you don't read this, it will be pinned. I don't have the time or patience to give a million warnings or leave a comment explaining why you got booted. Read the rules.
I will not be applying this retroactively. There's AI art in the feed right now and some that are AI and not disclosing it. Party's over, take it somewhere else. I will probably post a comment to let curators know it's AI for those that might care, also if any curators read this, do you care? Some people don't.
I know AI art is fascinating, it's even fun, I don't have an issue with the tech actually. I have an issue with the sleazy way the AI companies obtained the dataset that makes them work which was by a legal loophole that gave them access to billions of copyrighted images, and that is the literal only thing that makes these things valuable. I'll save all that for another post.
That's all for now. Happy creating, feel free to leave any thoughts in the comments.