DefendingAIArt is a subreddit run by mod “Trippy-Worlds,” who also runs the debate sister subreddit AIWars. Some poking around made clear that AIWars is perfectly fine with having overt Nazis around, for example a guy with heil hitler in his name who accuses others of lying because they are “spiritually jewish.” So we’re off to a great start.
the first thing that drew my eye was this post from a would be employer:
not really clear what the title means, but this person seems to have had a string of encounters with the most based artists of all time.
also claims to have been called “racial and gender slurs” for using ai art and that he was “kicked out of 20 groups” and some other things. idk what to tell this guy, it legitimately does suck that wealthy people have the money to pay for lots of art and the rest of us don’t
I really enjoyed browsing around this subreddit, and a big part of that was seeing how much the stigma around AI gets to people who want to use it. pouring contempt on this stuff is good for the world
the above guy would like to know what combination of buttons to press to counter the “that just sounds like stealing from artists” attack. a commenter leaps in to help and immediately impales himself:
you hate to see it. another commenter points out that well … maybe these people just aren’t your friends
to close out, an example of fearmongering:
This is hilarious, thank you for digging this up. I love how they’re just co-opting completely wrong words (wow, why does that sound familiar?) like “anti” and “fundamentalist orthodox” to describe the people they don’t like
There’s another one called “ArtistHate”, but I was surprised it’s actually a pro-artist subreddit.
If you want another fun read, check out Adobe’s ‘Stock Contributors’ AI artist forum. I found it by accident, and it’s full of people struggling so, so hard to understand why their puppy photos with missing limbs or physically impossible landscapes aren’t accepted. Any time someone “asks for clarification” on the submission rules I swear you can tell what the issue is at a glance but they’re stumped over it.
Like, what is this person even trying to do??? Why do people feel the need to regurgitate responses from ChatGPT for no reason. Why are they even submitting AI art to Adobe Stock at all. Are they even getting paid? These are the same people who like those photos of snowboarding babies and have to reply “thank you” to every post on their Facebook feed because they think it was personally sent to them.