Well, sometimes it can hurt them via direct replication of their art. As in, an AI ate so much of their art they can replicate it on a dime. Not necessarily competition but direct replacement.
It’s somewhat particularly painful since now your style may be homogenized with AI.
Have fun being accused of using AI when you didn’t.
Does this happen often? No, not really. Ironically it just points out how the hate for AI hurts more people than expected. Ouchie. (Like seriously, apparently false AI accusations are becoming a problem and they will probably get worse as AI gets more competent.)
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Legally it’s grey. I hear it’s leaning towards illegal infringement on copy right and fair use (due to not crediting).
Plagiarism is something AI is currently dealing with (as in, is AI plagiarism.)
So uh, legal stuff I don’t understand.
Ironically, something about AI not citing sources. It’s generally good procedure to recognize referenced material and tell others about it.
Artists give each other slack due to the fact that they all share an interest and typically want to spread that around. They encourage their art to be used a reference.
They don’t like when it’s stolen and repurposed however. AI doesn’t cite sources nor invite interesting discussion to the craft of drawing/painting/whatever.
It comes across as a fundamental misunderstanding of why they draw, which is particularly why it’s offensive to them. (I assume.)
Part of art is the process and all the little bumps during it. It’s both good for shared experiences with other artists and how people develop unique pieces despite references.
The art is not just the art but the story. AI doesn’t have a particularly interesting one.
(Kind of like how my love for AO comes from many other places than just winning.)
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Guys, guys, let’s all calm down. To solve this, we can either play Taxi Simulator 2 or nerf Thermo Fist.
I think eventually AI will get so advanced that you won’t be able to tell it’s even AI anymore. When it reaches that point, it’ll probably be able to simulate creativity to an extent and develop or express preferences or patterns.
You’re absolutely right, AI is why we should nerf Thermo Fist’s damage more
Well, actually I’m genuinely curious. I want to believe that personalized art will come out victorious but that’ll have to wait for the day AI Art becomes, well, Art.
But in this case: currently AI is being used to mimic certain people’s art styles. it’s currently able to pick up on stylistic choices already.
But, random side tangent: human randomness is pretty hard to mimic, now try adding some sort of not math related formula to “what makes art look like art” and AI will have a hard time. I do believe AI will have its own style, just not a human one. Especially an imperfect human one that’s naturally just a little inconsistent.
Literal “you cannot match my perfect imperfection” going on here in my opinion.
But again, we can only wait and see.
Ironically this is where I have beef with AI.
Have you heard of AI books being made? They are bad. People keep trying to make money using AI and it’s making a lot of people unhappy.
Like, people use AI for plagiarism. Cease. I don’t like it. And just lazy stuff that’s all AI generated.
Not just art but like, essays and writing and stuff. There’s my beef .
At least attempt to use AI creatively.
I think the next biggest jump for AI will be designing the neural networks to develop like actual brains with sections for specialized processing. The main neural network facilitating the creation of new sections for the AI to learn.
Ai images will never be “art” as to make art you need to be human and ai is a set of numbers and algoriths that have been fed every piece of art online
(I just realized this can be misinterpreted but I’m not going to clarify myself)
AI “art” will only become art when artificial intelligence actually becomes artificial intelligence
If people are using it as a tool to help them in the creation process then that’s completely different. AI should be used as a tool to help existing artists, but that’s not where artists take issue. They take issue with people who make a machine do all the work for them, take commissions for AI slop, and call themselves an “artist” despite at best maybe doing a little bit of photoshop to fix the AI’s bad linework
If you use AI as a tool to become better at drawing yourself, then it follows the same logic as tracing someone else’s art. If you traced/used AI for practice, and you want to post that practice, you just need to disclose what you did. Ultimately there will still be some people who attack you for it, but the reasonable folks will usually look the other way
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Yeah that’s my thoughts on the matter too. We’ve already mapped out a section of a brain and found that the neurons aren’t all interconnected but in section in a way iirc.
am i the only one who thinks this is scary af? i don’t even know why we’re working so hard on ai 
have literally all the movies not taught us anything?
We are progressing faster in science than we could predict. Why are we instantly going into the futuristic era isn’t there supposed to be an in-between age
this is an extremely cliche saying but: AI was made to do work so we can create more art
tragically, due to big corporate greed and whatnot, it’s being used to create “art” (which is an extremely generous thing to refer to it as) so people can do more work