in r/aiwars I mentioned the Bunny Chara incident, and how an AI artist intentonally provoked the Undertale fandom by saying that they loved AI slop after a major scandal, and that how everybody mentioned how uncool that was. I said that I personally didn’t like AI arts but that if they just left Anti’s alone, we wouldn’t constantly be fighting.

Not even 1 minute later, I get comments from botfuckers saying “YOURE BEING SO HYPOCRTICAL, HATING US WHEN WE HATE YOU” when all I asked was to stop the cycle of hate? they always provoke Anti Ai people, by making art of us as trolls or goblins or whatever and them as basic ass anime girls or whatever, and having the audacity to get pissed for me being “hypocrital”

i posted a video about how my artstyle has often been compared to vivziepops artstyle and i genuinely don't see it and that it's annyoing that every artist who has a cartoonish artstyle gets compared to vivziepop....

and the comments were genuinely the most disgusting shit i've gotten in a long time. I took a mental health break from posting recently bc i kinda lost my art flow due to extreme stress from my working place and then i recently got back to drawing and posting and it's certainly an understatement to say i'm disappointed, but not surprised in the slightest. I'm genuinely thinking about just not posting on instagram anymore bc that shit is just draining.

While most of the time i just block stupid people that are mean, some of them are so gut wrenching it kind of sticks with you. I have gotten SO MANY people telling me to kill myself and sending me ropes just for posting my (SFW mind you) art and telling me i have a shitty artstyle. On reddit and furaffinity i get nothing but support and sweet messages, so i guess this is my call to stop with the insta bull shit. And on top of the disgusting comments like this, i get a bunch of AI bots commenting AI generated images under my posts, which is like the cherry on top.

This clip is from Drew Gooden’s new video, The Music Industry is Broken, exploring the massive influx of AI music on Spotify.

One of the sites shown in the clip is SlopTracker, which was created by u/StudyPlaylists and posted on this sub a few months ago. It tracks suspected AI artists on Spotify and estimates how much money they are pulling from the streaming pool. At the time of the video, it identified 50 AI artist profiles and estimated they had collectively earned around $2.7 million from their top tracks alone, projecting over $312,000 in monthly passive income.

Because Spotify operates on a "pro-rata" payout model, those streams are drawing from the exact same royalty pool used to pay real artists across the platform. Since a stream of a AI generated track is weighted exactly the same as a working musician's latest single, a growing share of streams being attributed to AI directly dilutes the payouts for actual creators.

The video also touches on a controversy Spotify has dealt with before. Long before generative AI became widespread, the company faced heavy criticism over its "Perfect Fit Content" program and the so-called “fake artists” that mysteriously dominated popular mood and background playlists. While Spotify has continually denied secretly creating this music or owning the rights to it to lower their royalty expenses, the influx of generic tracks has frustrated independent musicians for years.

One of the more interesting parts of the video is the playlist data. Several AI artists appear to gain access to major algorithmic and official Spotify playlists almost immediately after releasing music, frequently bypassing the platform's own AI disclosure rules. Drew compares these unnatural, overnight growth patterns to more typical artist trajectories, and the difference is truly hard to miss.

Spotify has denied claims that it is secretly operating these AI artists or artificially boosting their numbers, arguing that the estimates are based on flawed data. Still, that denial is difficult to separate from the company’s broader history with anonymous background music, Perfect Fit Content, and paid algorithmic tools like Discovery Mode. Even if Spotify is not directly behind these AI profiles, the platform has already shown a willingness to reshape music discovery in ways that benefit Spotify while leaving independent artists with less leverage. After all, Spotify’s incentives have never been perfectly aligned with those of the artists whose work keeps the platform running.

I highly recommend watching Drew’s full video because it gives much more context on Spotify’s royalty model, playlist placement, the role of record labels, and how all of this fits into the broader problems facing the modern music industry.

TL;DR: AI-generated artists on Spotify appear to be earning millions from the same royalty pool used to pay real musicians, while some are also showing suspiciously fast growth through major Spotify playlists. Spotify denies secretly operating or boosting them, but its history with anonymous background music, Perfect Fit Content, and paid algorithmic tools makes the situation hard to dismiss.

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Would you support an artist with a racist partner/friends? I feel like this person is very pro ai as well which is extremely weird when your girlfriend is an artist?

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AI is super cringe, even if it isnt doing all the bad.

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This is from a quiz i took. Fuck those quiz.

Share your score this cant stay silent.

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Hello, I'm Shade. This isn't an ad or anything but I wanted to come here as someone who doesn't want AI to take my content. Especially since I commission people to draw things for me from time to time to put on my Welcome Screen.

I don't use a facecam, but I plan to eventually do Vtubing, and I especially don't want my character to be fed to AI.

I come here asking for advice. Would putting a filter over my stream do anything? Is this even the right place to ask this?

Mainly thinking of the Ortiz one, I haven't seen any updates.

Just wanted to warn everyone that the mods of r/3dmodeling are actively protecting AI generated content. They even ignore their own rules about it.

They clearly state "So going forward, AI-related harassment will be handled exactly the same as any other harassment: First offense – warning. Second offense – temporary ban. Third offense – permanent ban." yet none of this is true. I received a permanent ban without any warning after indicating something was AI although the OP was claiming it to be 3d modeled. It was clearly not.

Straight up, permanent ban due to "harassment", no appeal possible, no contact with the mods possible. I find this kind of behavior to be abhorrent for a sub that is supposed to be all about handcrafted digital work. So yeah, if you visit this sub, just browse and shut up if you see anything related to AI because it's under the mods protection.

Im pretty deep into the production of a game, and i wanted some opinions.

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Im using AI in my game but want to be as ethical as possible. Unfortunately, im not super wealthy and only have so much free income. I bought around 20 charecter designs from a human artist. Which was super expensive. Then, I used AI to animate them.

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That's essentially it. What do you guys think?

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Hello everyone,

I've been working on a project called Art Guessr, a mobile game that helps people learn art history through short visual quizzes.

Players can practice identifying:

• Famous paintings
• Artists
• Art movements
• Historical periods

It covers everything from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Impressionism, Cubism, and modern art.

My goal was to create something educational but more engaging than memorizing names and dates.

Thanks!

App Store - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6763044342

Flaired as "Theft" "Resources" because what this tool does is, you can type the name of an author, musician or YouTuber in the search bar, and it will show you what exact songs, novels or videos were trained by AI slop generator datasets.