Saw this on someone’s profile on tumblr. This is genuinely insidious ngl
Hey potential clients if you don’t want to get ripped off (paying for something that took little time, no skill, low effort) I highly suggest showing smaller artists offering commissions some love. You will never get that level of passion or satisfaction of having helped someone put food on the table from something generated off of stolen art.
so exhausting to see the same lies getting repeated over and over
it automatically takes no time, skill, or effort, because there’s a computer in it.
What’s that? Doing it well actually does require plenty of time, skill, and effort? Well, but it’s “stolen.”
What’s that? There’s no possible way to claim it’s stolen that doesn’t also outlaw things that everyone agrees are art, like collage, photography, or Photoshop? Well…then it’s Not Real Art.
What’s that? There’s no possible way to call it Not Real Art that doesn’t also outlaw things that everyone agrees are art, like Warhol, Pollock, or Duchamp? Well… Then I’ll go back to claiming it takes no effort, because by now I’ve forgotten how we already agreed that wasn’t true.
It’s like whackamole. And even if you get someone to agree to each part individually, they’ll just decide it’s Bad Anyway, Because. Because they’ve decided to dislike it, is all, and they’re not interested in hearing otherwise.
anyway, maybe throw a small artist a commission, a small artist like the one OP is trying to throw under the bus
psst, tumblr just quietly rolled out collaboration with ai training models, and it's opt-out, not opt-in, go into your blog settings to fix it [on desktop, anyway, dunno where you'd look on mobile] keep fighting the good fight <3
