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Elaine Cortez @lemm.ee

Got tired of people accusing me of using AI in my art even though I include links to files, timelapses and progress pictures in the descriptions, so I've decided to stop posting my art online.

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.

28 comments

  • Tumblr is annoyingly toxic about this.

    Your artstyle does look slightly like ai, but even a quick look shows its not.

  • I'm really sorry to hear that, and it's a shame for all of us to lose such fun art -- your work is so full of personality.

    I hope the AI bubble bursts soon, but it's been very disappointing to see how many people don't value humanity in anything. I can understand peoples' paranoia, with so much worthwhile human art being chewed up, blended and blandly regurgitated by these robots.

    • Before I left Threads, I saw a lot of AI-generated images that got hundreds, even thousands of likes. I can definitely understand the paranoia which is why I post links to receipts including Paint Tool Sai files with dozens or hundreds of layers. Those files always take such a long time to upload to Internet Archive purely because of how big they are. As someone who has had her art stolen it's hurtful to be accused of using AI. Honestly I think now is a very precarious time for artists to be posting their work online and like you, I hope something changes!

  • I’m sorry. Somewhat related experience:

    As a disabled person who is physically unable to do a lot of things. The advances in AI are pretty cool in that I can do stuff I never had the capacity for before.

    But people seem to reflexively demonise anything to do with AI to the point I’m shamed out of even using it as an accessibility tool. It sucks. Sometimes feels like a sort of “moral panic” just like we had back when TV or the internet or dungeons and dragons got big.

    • I would ignore the people who are vehemently against AI and just do what makes you happy. Most of the time, they are just looking for a fight. I recently commented about how AI allows some disabled people to create art, but many people assume only able-bodied people are using AI. That was a mistake. I soon had some people recommending ways for me to make art without AI, and they would not work for my disability, of course. I had one person say if I'm able to type this comment, shouldn't I be able-bodied enough to make art? My favorite is when a person said look at this disabled person paint using their mouth and another disabled person with low vision that is legally blind both create art and put down any disabled people who need AI, because they don't need AI. Must be nice to live without the constant burden of a disability that prevents you from doing the things you enjoy. I've been shamed so many times for being disabled since I was a teen, disabled people do not need extra shaming.

    • No way, haven't you heard? There is NO moral use for AI /s

  • what you’re missing is: every time someone says that, they’re saying your style is so clean and smooth, that it must be ai.
    PLUS, i wouldn’t be surprised if “ai artists” are now lashing out against actual artists, not to mention: don’t feed the trolls.

    have you ever met a compulsive liar in person? they have keyboards.
    trolls online are actually mostly sociopaths, and they comment 95x more than regular people, and under many different accounts… when you reply and get upset enough, you become what they would call a “lol cow”, aka, a sensitive genuine human… maybe quit under this name, but don’t quit posting.
    provide sufficient proof, and simply don’t engage with ai claimants afterwards. if a mod of a sub or someone with reputation requests proof, politely provide it, ignore all other haters and they’ll move on…

    for a troll, a sociopath, it’s all about control. they’re controlling you to get upset, to go to great lengths to prove yourself… they’ll keep on insisting on more proof… frustrating you… and will never say sorry.

    some people are real and doing the knee-jerk reaction to constant AI spam… but just don’t worry too much about it, provide reasonable proof once… maybe in a standard way each time you post, and just be a “grey rock” after that… responding only to mods and people with a really good history. (trolls really hate it when you check out their comment history)

    really i would say this is an example of “concern trolling”… a tactic of pretending like they’re really concerned about some moral thing, and unreasonably accuse you of being immoral, so you feel compelled to defend yourself… and maybe they can get you flustered and banned….
    p.s. do some stop-motion video of you making them.

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