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Food for thought: AI art has influenced the public zeitgeist and has become part of the modern style. The brainrot has bled out into lighting techniques, proportions, and especially references. The algo is no longer just running on machines.

Further, the consumer has got so wary of AI artist cosplay that it's causing us to shoot at shadows in our own houses. I was on Amazon recently and I had to minutely inspect the paragraphs of text and the images to determine if any of the products were real. Maybe 50% were fake.

Gatekeeping is now more important than ever, but those filters also scare and remove new artists who are not yet able to defend their work. They are catching the bullets intended for the fleshcloaked botproxies.

artists used to be able to be mysterious. a work would just show up. where did it come from? some guy in japan released it. any more info? nope, just an origin and a piece of work

it seems like you can’t really do that anymore. :( i saw this thing blowing up where an animator that worked on this animation for years (before gen AI) is now having said animation accused of being AI. i wish we could go back to assuming things are not AI. it was better for artists that way imo.

like now you have to keep tedious record of your process, or something like that, but even then people don’t believer it’s not AI. it feels like an intentional thing by AI companies or something because it’s all so bizarrely irrational too.

the entire dynamic is insidious. even if you cared enough to do it all by hand, show proof, no amount of proof is enough. ultimately it propagates the idea that cool or different work is not possible without AI, and if something looks unique then it must have involved it. it’s incredibly annoying.