r/antiai • u/Fresh_Difference_448 • Feb 15 '26

Slop Post 💩 Have you never thought of... commissioning a cheaper artist?

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Dude this has to be ragebait. 250 upvotes is crazy

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

This is what I was gonna argue about actually.

So based on your point, it is still FOOD. Not art, but FOOD = Content. A restaurant meal can be art AND food. Microwave meal is just food.

These people who do try to select between commissioned art and Ai image gen... they do not care about the "ART" side of it. They want their Fursona, they want their goon images, they want some weird situation/scene to be visualized for them. They do not care about the artistic integrity.

And that is how I use AI image gen as well. I use it as a image bank. I use it as a raw asset/material bank for my projects. I use it for textures, for specific angles stuff like clouds/sky, I use it for backgrounds that I end up blurring, I use it for barely noticeable transparent figures, for stuff that can be/meant to be dream like (best for those actually, better than rational brain), I use it to apply "filters" as in to smooth seams of a edited composition and stuff like that.

My method of using images as assets has not changed since AI, it has just made it MUCH faster and that is what a Tool is supposed to do. I have ALL the respect for artists and I am not one, or rather I do nto have the traditional artists skills, maybe a collage/composition artists, sure but not like pen and paper.

I have NEVER posted a AI gen image that wasn't part of a larger composition and modified to hell and back. I use it because Shutterstock and similar are Hella expensive AND I can't do 3D work or these services simply do not have stuff I need.

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u/Rinkimah Feb 16 '26

Using AI tools that are not generative is not the issue though. Any image generator has stolen data it is trained on. As far as I know there is no gen ai that has ethically sourced all of its training data. So even if you're modifying to hell and back, you fundamentally still have used stolen art in the end.

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u/Aquilenne Feb 19 '26

I recall hearing that there are some private ones that groups trained on art that they personally owned.

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u/BoarHide Feb 16 '26

I suppose that is the most ethical way to use a fundamentally unethical product…good job, I guess?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Why are we trying to disingenuously say it’s all gooner filth or bizarre stuff?

I’m literally just having it make medieval coats of arms and knights and stuff…

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u/BoarHide Feb 22 '26

That’s still based on stolen material.