While I enjoyed receiving feedback on my art, I’m just getting tired of people ignoring the link in the description, baselessly accusing me of using AI and not apologizing after I correct them. The latest accusation was on Tumblr and it was then that I just thought to myself “you know what, I’ve had enough of this”
I’ve kept receipts associated with my art on Internet Archive. I am also vehemently against using AI image generators, especially as someone who has had her art used without permission for usage in an AI output.
While I cherished the positive comments that I got, I don’t want to associate what is my hobby with any form of hostility, don’t want anxiety about people spreading misinformation about me as an artist so I’ve decided that from now on, I won’t be posting my art online. I’m still going to keep my old art up, I just won’t be posting any new art even though I’m still drawing.
I kinda deal with that over here in NSFW-land where I’m one of the resident Internet detectives. I get that it’s really hard to tell sometimes (and not everyone enjoys trawling though reverse image searches to connect a photo with the user that posted it), but for fuck’s sake, if there isn’t any hard evidence, people need to just shut the hell up. I can only imagine how much more insufferable and demeaning it would be to hear that be said about my own art/ creations.
(For what it’s worth, I think your art is pretty awesome!)
Thanks! 😃 Agreed, I really wish people were less quick to just jump on somebody. There have been times where I was unsure about whether or not an image I’d seen was AI generated but I never went and accused someone because false positives happen and it can be hurtful.