Generative ai is fucking immoral and I fucking hate it. Stop using it.

This fucking shit INFURIATES me, and ONLY OTHER ARTISTS seem to give a shit.

I am an artist of 30 years and my art was used to train this ai image shit. I did not consent to that. I did not receive compensation for that. Neither did any of the other MILLIONS of artists who have been fucked over by this. And we sure AS FUCK are not getting any new jobs because of this either. The industry has been FUCKING DESTROYED.

People like to defend Generative ai by saying shit like "i only use it for memes!" Or "i cant draaaww dont gatekeep art!" Or "some people are too disabled to draw!!" Or whatever but it is all bullshit.

Using it for something small like memes is not a fucking excuse. It is THE SAME EXACT THING and effects artists in the SAME EXACT WAY. Our art is STILL BEING STOLEN YOU FUCKING MORON. HOW MUCH EFFORT WOULD IT TAKE FOR YOU TO CREATE A /FUCKING MEME???/

The disability / lack of talent argument is so fucking infuriating too. Like... Christy Browns body was almost entirely paralyzed so he learned to draw with his /fucking toes/.

Beethoveen was FUCKING DEAF.

If you think you are not skilled enough or talented enough or good enough or "too disabled" to draw, if you think this is being "gatekept" then maybe you just need to admit that you don't give enough of a shit to put any effort into learning a skill and would rathe screw over working artists than take a single second to think or attempt to better yourself.

Learn to draw you fucking whiny babies.

Stop defending a technology that literally steals from millions of artists.

Stop fucking using it.

EDIT BECAUSE I KEEP GETTING PEOPLE WHO DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT IN THIS POST:

It doesn't matter if you think art is low value or low entry or whatever. Your personal opinion of value is irrelevant here.

Generative ai images stole millions of images that it did not create.

It stole art that legally belonged to the humans who created it, and those people;

1) were not asked permission to do this 2) were not given any monetary compensation for this 3) were not given credit for any of this 4) were not given any form of legal consultation regarding this 5) will be losing jobs and money because this program stole the work they themselves created

YOUR OPINION OF ARTISTIC VALUE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS! This is about a legal violation of personal property and even copyright.

Hayao Miyazaki doesn't have a copyright on his style, you can DRAW his style all you want. Because that would be creating your OWN product. But he DOES have legal ownership of HIS PRODUCTS like Totoro. Unless you try to draw a copyrighted character like Totoro and attempt to sell it as your own, you can DRAW in his style all you like.

But hey guess what? He DOES have a LEGAL RIGHT to his OWN DRAWINGS and his OWN MOVIES. But this program took that LEGAL PROPERTY and used it WITHOUT his LEGAL CONSENT.

TL;DR To put it EXTREMELY SIMPLY:

Miyazaki has a legal right to Totoro.

This machine stole Totoros image.

It is now using that stolen image as data to create genrated ai images.

He was not asked for permission, He did not give permission, He is not making money on this, He is not being credited in this, He is not being legally consulted on this,

He was NEVER EVEN CONTACTED about his LEGAL OWNERSHIP being used in this way.

And now his stolen work is being used to put other artists just like him out of a job.

His product is being sold for monetary value that will never make it's way back to him or any of the other MILLIONS of artists who are hurt by this.

Your personal fucking opinion of the valuelessness of art is NOT IMPORTANT HERE.

Hayao Miyazaki himself would be fucking disgusted with everyone who uses this product.