The Curse Of AI Generated Content

 

Earlier today I was on X (Twitter) and I noticed that baraag posted something that rejects AI artist from joining Baraag. But let's be reasonable here, Baraag is a platform full of amateurs and barely any high quality artist at all. It's not like they are attracting big name artist, because the majority of those artists prefer being on Twitter/X for whatever reason. I gave Twitter a try and I honestly hate the platform...

Of course, Baraag has decided not to allow AI artists, regardless of whether the content is realistic or not. The reason? AI artists aren't real artists. Therefore, the founder put a stipulation on this, while other art platforms have embraced AI and allowed it to completely take over their platforms. I do still dislike AI art, but I'll make exceptions for AI content that generates stuff that doesn't exist otherwise. 

I've seen a lot of AI art of content I wish had original versions, but they don't, so I settled for the AI version of what didn't exist before. AI can create things that actual artists wouldn't want to create themselves. So someone who understands AI can just generate all sorts of interesting things with it. I've been collecting several AI generated images of Sadako from the Ring because I used to always complain in the past that there wasn't enough art of her at all. Then AI came along, and now there are thousands of images of Sadako even though most of them are garbage.... Especially the stuff involving her with males. But this was even problematic before AI.

Unfortunately, AI was never going to be a game changer, and it was never going to really impress a lot of people due to how effective it is at creating these images without the extra effort that would require for someone skilled to draw or produce them naturally. It's very boring seeing so many of these AI generated images so much so that it appears to have replaced original artwork or just made it incredibly difficult to find anything new that isn't AI generated.

So how are these images of Reika Kitami being created when there are no copies or original versions for them to steal in order to generate these exact images of her? I don't understand how AI works or how it creates these images out of thin air. But for something to just create a perfectly good face and body for a character with no original copies to steal from, AI must be a very strong program that understands who Reika Kitami is to generate perfectly good images of her.

I can understand why Baraag doesn't want AI artist on it's platform because most art platforms that openly allowed AI ended up taken over by AI artwork, so now it's harder than to find original art because there's too much AI generated content churning out images. DeviantArt is proof of this phenomenon when I went there the other day.

What did I find? Well, I ran into A LOT of AI generated art, and it looks as though AI art has fully taken over DeviantArt. There is a post that someone made that is heavily Anti-AI and a lot of people are commenting on why AI is unethical. Of course, there are people there who defend the use of AI generated material, so the debate over whether it is problematic and needs to be eradicated from all art platforms is debatable. I don't like AI and hate that it's become a trend to the point where original art is getting harder to find because of it. But there has been lots of niche and rare content created from AI that doesn't exist in any other art form. My guess is it generates images from real photographs and then turn them into art images somehow.