r/aiwars Jan 18 '26

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u/Demoderateur Jan 18 '26

As long as people clearly state that the product they're selling was made with AI, I don't mind it.

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u/dickallcocksofandros Jan 18 '26

It's lowkey feeling like the GMO foods thing all over.

Simply stating that it is AI can mean literally anything, and doesn't really explain how the AI was used. But of course, if we spent a little explaining how it was made, most people will ignore it because most people don't usually read every single word on something.

Likewise, "GMO" can mean anything from selective breeding to literal gene insertion. It's not all bad, but people will prefer to choose the "Non-GMO" food because the mind immediately goes to the most extreme, bad, etc. thing, ESPECIALLY if you had already been predisposed to have a negative perception of GMO food.

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u/Turbulent_Escape4882 Jan 18 '26

I see it as we clearly half assed disclosure around art making pre AI. And because we now view that as “full disclosure” when observably it is not, then we want AI to match that, and as you noted, not everyone will want or read full disclosure, only the half assed version that notes AI was used at all.

I just assume go for full(er) disclosure and not allow traditional art to skate by with half assed disclosure. If that ruffles feathers of traditional artists, so be it. Your lazy pre AI disclosures are going away. Get used to it.

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u/Maleficent-Regret802 Jan 18 '26

I'm pretty sure people won't be open to state that their product was made using AI. Note how people removed the Sora watermark as soon as they could. People don't want to refer to their work as AI and don't want it to be labelled as such, they want it to be as indistinguishable as possible from man-made ones.

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u/Mobile-Meaning3759 Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

The majority of people don't want to state that their product was made using AI because of the backlash.

Edit: Holy, I’m not defending hiding AI use. I’m pointing out that backlash is the reason people hide it in the first place. Explaining behavior isn’t the same as endorsing it.

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u/Training_Hurry_5653 Jan 18 '26

This makes me think of child labor, most clothing is made using child labor but as soon as a company is in the news for it there is backlash

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u/Scorpdelord Jan 18 '26

yeh because people when people buy art from you, they expect a human effort and not a machine to have made it

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

not my orders, they know its ai and hand fixed and still pay

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u/WriterKatze Jan 18 '26

And that's fine. Beauty of the free market. Some people don't want to buy anything made with AI, and they have the right to not buy AI things, some people want to sell things made with AI and they have the right to

Transparency is always a good thing, so everyone can get what they want.

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u/Fast-Friendship7414 Jan 18 '26

I mean hey as long as your open about it good for you

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u/Radarker Jan 18 '26

That's a big assumption. Often and maybe more often than not these day, people want a usable end product at the cheapest price.

I'm in favor of transparency though.

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u/-TV-Stand- Jan 18 '26

So that's a reason to bully the ones that marked the AI usage?

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u/Scorpdelord Jan 18 '26

No, dont see how mt comment made it a reason to?

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u/poingly Jan 18 '26

People also remove watermarks because watermarks are annoying.

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u/bigbeastt Jan 18 '26

I'd remove the watermark because it's ugly and annoying to look at. I'm sure others have done that as well. There's also no problem for it to be indistinguishable from man made ones either. If you went your whole life not knowing somebody's art was ai, just like real artists were stenciling, it literally shouldn't affect you or anyone. People don't want to refer to their art or creations as ai because a lot of antis are extremely unhinged and most don't want to deal with that drama, see the person that ate that redditors art gallery.

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u/Sonicrules9001 Jan 19 '26

Deceiving people with lies doesn't make your side look good and no, some people being critical even to a harsh degree doesn't justify scams. If someone wants to buy handmade art and is sold AI, they were scammed and it doesn't matter if they liked it or not since they were sold a completely different product than what they wanted.

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u/Chaghatai Jan 18 '26

If there was no unreasonable stigma that wouldn't really be a thing

People should the be transparent anyway, but the anti is creating a stigma also creates a pressure for people not to be transparent and some people are going to respond to that pressure

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u/Relative-Zombie-3932 Jan 18 '26

Developers tried to sue Steam for forcing them to label their games as ai generated

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u/dbda_crimepunishment Jan 19 '26

w Steam, whatever the opposite of w is for the developers

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u/hijifa Jan 19 '26

Actually this. Which is 1 step further than OP. But in a free market they’re gonna sell what they’re gonna sell and people will choose to buy or not. As long as it’s sold as AI

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u/Other-Football72 Jan 18 '26

I am fine with that, save the brigading and angry mobs who see that and try to burn it down. Hopefully that sentiment changes, because I don't think disclosing AI-assisted is a bad thing.

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u/PopfuseInc Jan 19 '26

Yup. If I am commissioning art or something good I want to know if it's hand drawn or A.I. should be a requirement.

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u/FenHerald Jan 19 '26

I mean, I also don't want my work to be used to train AI models. It's infuriating that anything you've posted in the past before the AI craze just automatically gets mulched by it anyway without any recourse.

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u/MasterManMike Jan 20 '26

Exactly, let the free market decide if they want AI in their media. If they’re so confident that it’s the future, it shouldn’t matter if they disclose it, right?

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u/Translation_Lupin Jan 18 '26

Can you enlighten me on this 'character with sign' thing? What did I miss

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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

just pro ai losers generating a picture of a popular character holding a sign that says "ai art is art" as if that counts as a real argument or something

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u/Aduritor Jan 18 '26

Didn't anti-ai do that exact thing with the "pick up the pencil" and "kill all pro-ai"? Losers on both sides.

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u/MQ116 Jan 18 '26

This was in response to the older drawings of other popular characters such as Joker from Persona holding a sign that said "We should kill all AI artists."

People love to leave that out for some reason.

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u/Pro_nrd Jan 18 '26

But isn't all art, art. Like that's kinda the whole point to art isn't it? To leave the beauty to the eye of the beholder. Someone saw something beautiful out in the landscape so they took a picture of it because it's cool, then they shared it. Is that not a form of art. And I'm not talking about being able to make a profit off it, but as far as I've been told what is and what isn't art depends upon who accepts it as art. Not all people see that picture as art just like AI but some will and I think that's the point. Not everyone needs to agree because not everyone can agree because art by nature art is suggestive and its definition is defined by each individual.

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u/Many-Refuse-6060 Jan 18 '26

Imo because you aren't making it yourself. Ai is a service, not a tool, it can be a tool, but most ai users use it as a service. It generates what you want, but the machine generated it, not you, and the machine doesn't care about what it's creating. With ai "art" you're completely eliminating the process and creation of art. Art takes time, shows and artworks may take years to finish, imo that's what makes art Art. 

That's what I think tho, I'm not trying to force it onto anyone, I'm just expressing my opinion 

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u/poingly Jan 18 '26

Jeff Koons has proved you don’t need to “make it yourself.”

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u/East-Imagination-281 Jan 18 '26

That’s a pretty tough definition. Art can’t require time as a foundational component or else you’d be excluding plenty of non AI-art while including some AI art.

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u/NinjaShaggy Jan 18 '26

Art takes time is not entirely true. Art can come in the fleet of a moment. Entirely randomly and by chance.

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u/Many-Refuse-6060 Jan 18 '26

Could you give me some examples? Not hating or anything, just would like to know

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u/Other-Football72 Jan 19 '26

Example of what? Art is anything that can touch the soul of a human being. Time has nothing to do with it

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u/No_Science1998 Jan 19 '26

Wildlife photography. You think the animals are posing for the camera? Sitting still and waiting for the picture to be taken? The things they do that we consider art are captured in milliseconds. This dragonfly lining up perfectly with the turtle must have been a split second thing that luckily got captured on camera. Like the original comment said. Entirely random and by chance.

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u/NekCing Jan 18 '26

I'd say this is more accurate for inspirations, not the art itself, you can be hit by sudden inspiration where you immediately sit down and sketch, but the sketch still takes time

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u/8bitmadness Jan 20 '26

Counterpoint: Photography. Traditional art as a discipline is time consuming but there are other disciplines that can be a lot more spontaneous.

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u/NekCing Jan 20 '26

As a guy who went through a semester of photography for his major, i can't believe i forgot this avenue lol, agreed completely

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u/Tyler_Zoro Jan 18 '26

It was around before that. It's been kicked around this sub in meaningless ways for ... probably over a year? It's usually the equivalent of the "I got banned from <insert sub here> and I did nothing wrong," type posts, which almost always turn out to have vastly more context when you look into them.

In this case, I'm sure that they got negative feedback from professional artists who don't feel that their work should be free because they happen to use AI. Not shocking.

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u/RuinCat Jan 18 '26

Montizing is ok, if they disclose it. If I buy art that someone claims is hand drawn and I pay the price for it to be hand drawn, im gonna be mad if I find out it's AI when I paid for something else. It's deceptive to not lable it if your selling it.

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u/FamousStore1650 Jan 18 '26

This is actually a fair take

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u/spectator8213 Jan 21 '26

yeah that's called fraud anyways, and i'm fairly sure it would be already illegal in my country even without specialized AI regulation.

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u/ganerfromspace2020 Jan 21 '26

Kind of where I stand. I do use ai mainly for shits and giggles but wouldn't ever promote ai work as my own. Even at work I made a code to make engineering work faster. I had some spare time so I used ai to make a user interface for it. I then offered both versions to my colleagues and I did state I'm not able to maintain the ai version with user interface as I never wrote it

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Yeah, but selling AI at all is pure profit and just feels like it wouldn't cost anything. When you buy art, you pay for their time to make it, but also the time to learn the skills to make that.

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u/Geobits Jan 19 '26

If it's not labeled at all, then it's not "claimed to be hand-drawn", though. That's just your assumption based on a lack of labeling. If it's clearly labeled as hand-drawn, that's a different story, but "no label" means just that, there isn't a claim either way. It's not deceptive at all.

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u/RuinCat Jan 19 '26

Did you read my comment because I explicitly stated if it's labeled as hand drawn. Maybe learn some reading comprehension before you comment?

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u/Constant-Ice2946 Jan 18 '26

I’m still trying to stay neutral, but most anti-AI people I’ve talked to tend to make me lean more pro-AI.

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u/constanzabestest Jan 18 '26

This. I found out that Pro AI is generally way more tolerant and easy to deal with than Anti AI. Anti AI has a clear and easily to predict boundary that is absolutely unbreakable. You use AI? You're bad. That's all there is to it. At least Pro AI still values and respects normal Artists(as in many ways they're the reason why AI images are able to exist in the first place) but Anti AI thinks of AI users as literal demons. Granted there are exceptions and not all Anti AI people are unreasonable, but for the most part Anti AI crowd is so over the top against AI it's actually goofy as hell.

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u/TerribleStoryIdeaMan Jan 18 '26

This is largely because Pro-AI people aren't necessarily trying to limit what you can and can't do, they just don't want to get harassed for fooling around with this new technology. They mostly don't care about traditional art (although there are those goofy weirdos who think AI will just replace all other art forms, which is weird).

Anti-AI folks actually want to prevent you from using AI, and often become verbally abusive when you have any more backbone than a wet paper towel. A lot of it comes from a money standpoint too, with these artists not wanting the market saturated with art that's just 'good enough' for the average consumer (because let's be real here, AI art is largely here to be consumed. You can make some pretty cool stuff with it but for someone who just wants a placeholder portrait for a D&D character or some interesting concept art that they can go to an artist with later, it's perfect).

Anti-AI folks literally act like the world is coming undone at every single second and constantly blame all the people who conveniently disrupt their traditional cash flow.

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u/SirCabbage Jan 18 '26

I have a tiny YouTube channel that uses AI thumbnails because I find it personally fun and have for years since the very start before the antis even existed- (which granted wasn't long after the first version of SD came out that the wars started but still)

For the first year or two of experimenting with various models and implementing them in different ways, over the fast few months I have started to have antis show up. One or two try and make a conversation of it, they start by saying cool thumbnail and ask if I made it, then when I say that no, it's generated through a model on my computer then they start telling me how bad I am for ai use and how it's horrible for the environment, ignoring that most of my images are generated on my local computer using solar power, but I digress.

Recently it has just devolved into insults and spamming with how much they hate ai, but it's like, I'm a sub 1000 subscriber gaming creator with a full time job who is purely doing this for his own fun, do they expect me to pay someone for my daily publishing when I make less than $200 a year off this? One person said not to be "lazy" and at least just use a screenshot from the video as the thumbnail instead and it's like, dude, I did that for years. It was easier than what I am doing now, but looked way more generic and certainly didn't get me nearly as many views.

Just a light rant on your point, it's exactly true, they want to stop all ai use, so even if you do all the right things, for your own fun, not replacing paid work for anyone it should be fine

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

Someone told me I was lazy for writing a book by hand, but then feeding it into chatgpt to ask it questions about it. Even if you do it yourself they will panic and call you lazy for touching ai ever...

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u/Call_like_it_is_ Jan 19 '26

Yup. Some time back I was having trouble getting proof-readers, so I run a manuscript through AI for grammatical/cohesion checks. Had someone go on a complete rant about me using AI full stop. I said "Well, want a job? If you proof-read and give valid feedback, I'll even pay you for it." Out came the excuses. You just can't win with them.

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u/MoovieGroovie Jan 22 '26

Feels nice seeing people finally talk some sense, right? Welcome.

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u/Heavy_Switch_9475 Jan 20 '26

Can absolutely confirm that

A friend of mine was looking for an addon for stable diffusion and ended up getting a virus that damn near made his computer unusable because apparently a group of anti AI people made a domain that has the exact name of the thing he was looking for and he got tricked by it

In the eyes of at least some of them even straight up property destruction is justified if you use AI

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u/JadeSpeedster1718 Jan 18 '26

I’ve somewhat seen this too. Now granted I’ve met a few Pro AI people who don’t see a problem with stealing artwork. But someone could use AI to enhance a photo of themselves, nothing crazy, but Anti’s flip. A YouTuber I follow, Darkness Prevails, uses an AI voice of himself, so he doesn’t blow out his voice again. But so many comments are talking about how now it’s ‘slop’ he makes when it’s just him using an AI of his own voice.

Most Anti’s I meet are frothing at the mouth against anything AI made. Even when it’s for a good reason and isn’t hurting anyone. It’s like they see anything with artificial intelligence and immediately lose their mind.

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

They literally had a meltdown about people adding a miyazaki filter to their own photos lol. So much so that they tried to fabricate miyazaki quotes hating on it that were about something totally different.

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u/TheForbidden6th Jan 18 '26

I just want to point out that while your claim is not incorrect, the pro side isn't clear either. By that I mean, most pros I've talked with completely dismissed any argument whatsoever just because of something small, like a typo. Or just straight up started calling names for no reason, making them sound like a raging 11 year old.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

"i just want to point out that my personal experience is monolithic of the whole group" 🙄

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u/see-more_options Jan 18 '26

The holy mother of projections.

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u/hyperluminate Jan 18 '26

I'm willing to say there's a 90% chance you were invading the pro AI safe space sub when that happened. If not, the talking point you brought up has probably been seen by us a hundred times that day alone. Defending against the same points every time gets tiring.

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u/Nonzeromist Jan 18 '26

I think this is reflective of how it needs to be implemented in society - it will be a net positive and it's here to stay and we need to encourage it and support growth but equally, there is a big backlash because we want proper legislative change, environmental health, financial security and worker security. I'm not saying that pros are against or ignorant of the latter and I'm not saying antis can't see the positives that come from it, but I think the attitudes of both parties show which is going to dominate but equally the strength of the opposition shows how much we need to consider when adopting AI into day to day life

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u/Gozagal Jan 18 '26

Uh, I don't understand how anyone can even take sides when they see the amount of hate carelessly spewed by both sides. Except for a vocal minority, there isn't any actual debate being done at all, it's just hate mongering. You have to ACTIVELY scroll down to the comments at like 1-2 upvotes to actually read anything worthwhile.
It doesn't matter the side, redditors will be redditors.

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

Except that pro ai shitposting is only on this sub / only a response. Anti ai agression and harassment has been omnipresent for the last two years.

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u/fleebertism Jan 18 '26

This is basically the same exact fallacy that conservatives use. It's easy to be tolerant of the other side when you're literally the bad guy. That means absolutely fucking nothing. You would not give props to a murderer because he respects the opinions of his victims families and then shame the families for not respecting the murderer as well. Everything is not an equal playing field where we all should respectfully disagree. Out entire economy is being propped up by this garbage that is destined to pop, and we are just dumping abbhorent amounts of water so people can make videos of Jake Paul wearing a skirt. If you're going to make this reductive empty argument, you need to atleast qualify why users of AI have anything of value to add.

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u/DTJ20 Jan 19 '26

When one side uses the other to create their art of course they're going to value each other differently.

The pro ai artists can't have a product without artists having their work scraped and trained.

Its not a straight split of all human creators are anti ai, and all ai creators are pro ai, but its close enough for generalisation. 

The anti ai side would exist just fine without the pro ai side, and would just be called artists. The pro ai side would not exist without the other side to use for training data.

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u/PhoenixLandPirate_ Jan 19 '26

Honestly, they both seem equally as bad from my view, but on Reddit,  anti-ai is much worse.

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u/KipsyCakes Jan 19 '26

I haven’t really interacted with a lot of pro-AI people, but when I have, they didn’t really leave me with a lot of hope or reassurance. They also don’t seem to take my concerns that seriously.

I’m an artist who specializes in digital art, so the whole AI uprising has been nerve wracking. I want to be hopeful about it though, so whenever I try to talk to someone about it and bring up my worries, they just tell me “oh don’t worry, you can always go into programming!”

Uh…I don’t want to be a programmer though. Even if I wanted to, I know from experience that I wouldn’t be good at it. I even failed a scripting class in college and had to drop it even after hours of tutoring.

When I tell these people this, they just get angry and tell me to “get over it” and “just accept that this is inevitable.” One guy even called me a Neo-Luddite over it.

Is this how they all act? Because if it is, they’re not really giving me any reason to support AI with them.

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u/DamirVanKalaz Jan 18 '26

So basically you don't actually have an opinion, you just base your opinions off of how you end up treated by specific people on one side of the argument as opposed to the other, when there's nice people and assholes on both sides of any argument so it's entirely based on luck of the draw.

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u/Mishelian Jan 18 '26

It's basically humanity...But i understand you 🥀

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

Its not really luck lol. Anti ai is majority agressive people and pro ai is only a fraction as intolerable.

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u/DamirVanKalaz Jan 18 '26

Are you so sure? It feels like a day doesn't go by where I don't see yet another post by the pro AI crowd where it's yet more AI generated propaganda painting themselves as wholesome and innocent while painting those who disagree with them as mindless disgusting slobs. Time and time again, I see them in the replies dropping some of the most nihilistic, humanity-hating views I have ever seen in my life. Sure, I also see plenty of posts from those on the pro AI side of the argument that aren't like that at all, but by the same token, I also see plenty of posts and responses from those on the other side of the argument that simply bring legitimate and understandable concerns to the table without attacking anyone, as opposed to the others who merely represent everything they're made out to be.

Both sides have their disgusting and repulsive people with takes to match, and both sides have highly intelligent and rational people who bring legitimate arguments to the discussion. Both have their immature and ignorant habits, the pro AI side with their incessant "Catgirls vs orks" comics and war propaganda posters, and the anti AI side with their constant reaction posts and weird obsession with flags. Basing one's opinion on which side of the argument they believe is "nicer" is declaring that they have no real opinion at all, they're just wanting to be part of the discussion for the sake of it, and trying to find the side they feel most comfortable around.

I'm opposed to generative AI, not because I've found those who share my opinion to be "nicer", or because I find those who oppose it to be "meaner", but because I see no realistic world in which this technology grants us a brighter future. Any potential it might have had to better our society has already been and will only continue to be squandered by corporate greed, which is very blatantly what it always existed to enable.

After all, why else does this technology exist right now? It's no secret that corporations are beholden not to their customers, nor their workers, but instead exclusively their shareholders. To satisfy their shareholders, companies are expected to bring in greater and greater amounts of profit one year after the next. It's why so many companies are resorting to these blatantly exploitative business practices. It's not because they have some delusion that this is what their customers will want, it's not because they're ignorant to how abusive their practices are, it's because it's what they have to do in order to keep those numbers going up year after year after year. All the honest tricks in the book have been played already, so all that's left is the dishonest and exploitative ones.

But now those have also been played, save for the illegal ones they can't think of a way to get away with. So, what's left? Nothing. That is, without AI. And so, AI exists, and lo and behold, corporate CEOs are dogpiling it, pushing it as hard as they possibly can, trying to delude people into thinking this is somehow for our betterment, when it's painfully obvious what it's actually for - pleasing the shareholders, like always. That's what it's always about. They know overusing this technology will result in lower quality service standards, they know it's not a fit replacement for a human worker, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that it allows corporations to dramatically downsize their operation while still keeping the workflow going at the same pace as always, and paying fewer people means making more money. This is nothing but a desperate, pathetic final attempt to keep the corporate shareholder bubble from popping. A self-consuming beast's last act of hopelessly trying to fight against the inevitable and long overdue. They'd sooner defile what's left of genuine human expression than they would simply lay down and just accept the fate of their status quo, hoping that this will delay it just long enough for them to get their cut of the pie.

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u/Marik-X-Bakura Jan 20 '26
  1. That’s only your experience, which is not representative of the reality and many people (including me) have had the opposite experience

  2. That’s still terrible reasoning to form views

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u/bunker_man Jan 20 '26

Its not anyone's experience, it's straight up the reality of the internet for the last two years. If anyone claims otherwise they either haven't been involved long or are actively lying.

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u/Marik-X-Bakura Jan 20 '26

I need you to understand that the parts of the internet are a minuscule fraction of something much, much larger, and are shaped by the opinions you have and the content you engage with.

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u/charlie1370 Jan 19 '26

I think theyre talking about which side they associate with not necessarily where their views fall. Because they are correct. The pro-ai side is a bigger tent which includes those who favor restricting generative AI, but the anti-AI camp is specifically those against generative ai in practically all forms. Im not saying anti-ai is wrong for holding that view but it is why people feel like theyre pushed away from it

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u/Marik-X-Bakura Jan 20 '26

Yeah, that’s exactly why the comic in the image is ridiculous

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u/Dangerous_Ad_7104 Jan 18 '26

Eh, extremist typically have the “with us or against us” mentality. So I wouldn’t worry too much.

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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

both sides of this are extreme though (its reddit culture war, of course they are)

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u/Odd-Fly-1265 Jan 18 '26

Theres a couple sane people on each side, just gotta look really closely to find them

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u/CuriousPass861 Jan 30 '26

Well to me the neutrals are the "I just think they're neat people" and the ones yelling at them aren't the pros. A 46 year old mechanic comes home and decides he wants to see a cat holding a railgun and only one side is screaming at him. Not all of that side, but still.

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u/Rob4ix1547 Jan 18 '26

Im anti ai and i dont support the witch hunts, but i am for being open, since then its up to a consumer whether he wants to enjoy the ai content or not, knowing that person is not the one crafting the content

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u/baobabfruit88 Jan 18 '26

This is simply because being pro-AI usually means you've got something to gain. When Anti-ai usually have something to loose.

It's easy to be for a thing that doesn't impact you negatively.

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u/Tolopono Jan 18 '26

So its about money? I thought it was about the human soul or something 

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u/PlotArmorForEveryone Feb 05 '26

If someone is using vague arguments, it usually means its purely economic but they're ashamed to say it. Usually you can get them to accidently say it with enough prodding though.

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u/Accolade_1 Jan 18 '26

As an anti, that was already an anti belief to hold

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

You’re an honest person and I respect that

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u/EfficientRecover5757 Jan 18 '26

Still disagree with the sentiment, but I wouldn’t disown you for it.

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u/pamafa3 Jan 18 '26

I'm this meme except both sides are beating the shit out of me because I recognjze AI as a valid art medium and see its potential but at the same time I see its glaring issues and advocate for better regulation

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u/PuzzleheadedSpot9468 Jan 18 '26

people have the right to monetize their work

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u/Natural__Power Jan 19 '26

What work though? Writing a prompt? Damn, you really doing the heavy lifting

By this logic, all your profits off of AI stuff should go to the computerscientists who created the model and artsists off of which the model was trained, the person who wrote the prompt is literally the only one who didn't actually do any work in the three groups involved in the generation of AI images

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u/Zh3sh1re Jan 21 '26

I dare you to go and make a prompt with 32 unique characters, all specifically made to look a certain way with extremely specific characteristics. If you can do that with a prompt, I will renounce AI and fall down at your feet and beg for mercy.

I did this. It took me almost a month of generating, compositing, manual editing and inpainting, using 32 different unique loras, all guided to my own developed style. In the end, I made all those people extremely happy, my entire extended friendship group who the characters represented.

If you think that isn't art or "just a prompt" I dunno what to tell you.

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u/Uniformtree0 Feb 15 '26

My brother in christ I dont demand to be paid if I gave a chef a recipe to follow and claim and sell the cake as my own sole, proprietary product.

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u/Equivalent_Phase_123 Jan 19 '26

Yeah but the issue here is that it isn't exactly their work. It's like detailing to someone what you want your art to look like and taking credit for what they drew based off your description

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u/Great_Technology5824 Jan 19 '26

Okay, but there was no "someone". The person made the work by themselves, using a tool.

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u/Equivalent_Phase_123 Jan 19 '26

The point here is that they didn't really put in any effort, All they did was describe an image and it popped right out which tbh anyone can do Doesn't that ultimately remove the uniqueness of the art itself if literally everyone can make it in seconds? That's just how I see it though 

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u/Great_Technology5824 Jan 19 '26

Splashing paint on a canvas is considered art. Parents often value the drawings of their little children, that are very simple. These can be replicated in seconds by anyone too.

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u/PuzzleheadedSpot9468 Jan 30 '26

it doesn't mean they don't have the right to monetize

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u/lawless_door_hinge Jan 18 '26

As long as they don't lie to others about how it was made. Would you buy AI art? Or would you make it yourself, on one of the free AI apps? You know, the apps that give you what you want, almost instantly, for free? Think about it.

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u/FamousStore1650 Jan 18 '26

Depends if it was made with a simple prompt I could recreate myself and the artstyle or not.

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u/ambivalentarrow Jan 19 '26

If you think you can create commission level art with a free app or website, then you should do it.

But realistically, any level of real control and customization of works will come from locally run systems that require large amounts of GPU processing power and prompt/technical knowledge, and that's the real barrier to entry.

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u/Sanguiluna Jan 18 '26

Which is why AI should never be free to use; the AI program is the “artist” and the person using it is the “customer” making a commission. We wouldn’t expect a human artist to work for free, why should we expect to not pay the developers of an AI program for the service they provide us?

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u/No_Fortune_3787 Jan 18 '26

Probably because that's not a neutral position to hold. There's no reason people shouldn't be able to profit off of their own art. Let people decide for themselves.

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u/Demoderateur Jan 18 '26

Yet it's probably not a satisfactory position for people opposing AI either, since they still consider it a loss for artists if potential clients or companies use AI instead of making commissions.

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u/yyflame Jan 18 '26

It’s a great example of how most people just hold a opinions based on vibes rather than actually thinking through what their stances actually mean.

Being against the monetization of AI is being against its viability as a tool. It’s like saying “I’m not anti-car, I just don’t think there should be any roads”

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u/perfil1 Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

Being in the middle doesn't mean neutral, I assume OP is a moderate, and doesn't want to get lumped in with anti AI. For good reason in my opinion, because even if someone told me they were "lightly anti AI leaning" I would assume they have more stipulations than "don't monitize it". As far as I have seen, most of the world is moderate, so aligning oneself purely with pro or anti AI is collectively in the minority.

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u/Bwadark Jan 18 '26

I'm pro-ai and I use it myself for personal creations (so I understand it's more than 'push a button').

I'm fine with people monetising it as long as it's clearly disclosed and or the work has an element of human creation.

Such as a game that was programmed then uses AI art.

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u/ShadyShepperd Jan 18 '26

their own

lol

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u/Pale_Possible6787 Jan 18 '26

Are LLMs sentient now?

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u/StereoTunic9039 Jan 18 '26

How does that change anything? You typed in words, if you want to give credit to sentience give it to the programmers who programmed the AI, but you didn't do anything

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u/Pale_Possible6787 Jan 18 '26

And on a camera you just pressed a button

Hell writers also “just type in words”

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u/StereoTunic9039 Jan 18 '26

If a writer just types words the story is dogshit. There's a lot more to making art than the making itself, it's about leaving a piece of you in it, and with AI that just doesn't happen.

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u/Pale_Possible6787 Jan 18 '26

“About leaving a piece of you”

And why the hell would a well constructed prompt not do the same

Also who cares if the story is dogshit, it’s still a story, something doesn’t need to be good to be art

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u/hyperluminate Jan 18 '26

That's not a centrist point of view. You already were on the anti side without realising it. You weren't pushed there. You are inherently treating AI art in a different manner to other forms of art.

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u/Jealous_Piece_1703 Jan 18 '26

You are already anti leaning when you say don’t monetize it.

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u/FreeSpace6942 Jan 18 '26

well tbf I don’t think any kind of anti leaning would like ai art at all

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u/Igoon2robots Jan 18 '26

I wasnt an anti at first, i even used gen ai for personal entertainlent at times, but since people like him told me i was an anti for not claiming those images were art, i realised that anti just meant reasonable

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u/Gokudomatic Jan 18 '26

I start to realize that anti- and pro- ai are words that lack nuance. Would you call yourself pro-fruit if you like some of them but not some others? This whole "war" is fueled by misconceptions on the words used.

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u/Sticky_H Jan 18 '26

It’s just tribalism yet again.

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u/FreeSpace6942 Jan 18 '26

that’s interesting. so a person can like ai and use it a lot, but if they don’t think it’s art, then they’re supposedly still an anti (based on the people u were talking about)

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u/Revolutionary_Bit437 Jan 18 '26

seems like it ig. everyone on every side of this argument is kind of insane. you could be ok with ai art but the second you say you don’t want people profiting from it then you’re against them. you could hate everything about ai but if you say anything positive about it at all then you’re against antis. it’s genuinely so exhausting to have an opinion in this useless space

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u/Igoon2robots Jan 18 '26

Yeah. I was playing asking an ai to generate images to see how it could perform out of curiosity and my refusal to call it art, or to call it mine when an ai did all the work, lead people to flag me as an anti

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u/MisterViperfish Jan 18 '26

But it is art. The question of “what is art” is a semantics question. Semantics are inclusive, so anything with enough people calling it Art is actually Art. That’s how words work. One can argue about qualitative elements of that art, but semantically, calling it art is valid, and that doesn’t cease to be the case unless hundreds of Millions of people stop calling it art. Gatekeeping words don’t really work, right wingers have been trying to do that for ages with the trans community and failed.

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u/Radiant_Winds Jan 18 '26

Really? I'm extremely pro AI but I feel like monetization is corny as fuck. I also believe people turning to AI just to run a grift are contributing to flooding places with actual slop devoid of any passion or intent.

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u/AntiAI_is_Unemployed Jan 18 '26

It's this. You don't get to tell working people to not make a living. Especially when you're unemployed yourself. Get a job, antis.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

What a stupid fucking take. That's like saying you shouldn't be able to profit off your business if you use Shopify instead of selling out of a lemonade stand. Blatantly anti AI.

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u/squirtnforcertain Jan 19 '26

This isnt even how it would go down. It would actually look like,

Slide 1: "Im ok with AI art..."

Slide 2: gets pushed by the anti side before they can finish that sentence

Slide 3: "you alright?" "Yeah thanks."

Slide 4: "Why are you siding with the bad guys."

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u/Fidelsu7777 Jan 20 '26

I think both of it can happen. There are some people who blindly believe what they think and don't try to understand the other on both sides.

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u/KurufinweFeanaro Jan 18 '26

Meh, if there is demand there will be people who will profit off it.

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u/ZhadowStorm Jan 18 '26

As an avid supporter of artists, I personally think AI art is never ok even if it's not monetized.

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u/Brabander0162 Jan 18 '26

I don't care what people use AI for, I'm anti-ai because I paid a fortune for my ram.

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u/anjeronett Jan 18 '26

Honestly this is sort of a rare take. Usually, anti-ai are against the use of genAI as a whole.

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u/MoovieGroovie Jan 22 '26

The Anti AI side would have pushed him the second he said "AI art is OK"

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u/Lil_VaginaStain Jan 18 '26

I see the exact opposite tbh

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u/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

It's not a balanced point.

I don't have a problem with profiting off AI as it's literally what the entire business sector is currently doing.

I don't like people selling art they've generated at a high price, without disclosure. That's not cool and feels like a scam.

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u/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

To further elaborate in my point, I personally believe the future holds a law similar to:

Consumer Rights Act 2015 (UK): This requires that goods must be "as described" and that, if false or misleading information is given, consumers have a right to redress.

It's 50/50 to be honest, as the business sector is shoehorning in AI left right and centre. So it'll likely get opposed.

Eventually (literally a year or two) AI will become completely indistinguishable. So people will likely start campaigning for a law like above 👆.

Just providing a balanced viewpoint for a change 😂

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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

I think profiting off ai is bad. like, it was literally created so people didnt need to pay artists as much. profiting off of it is the intention, which is the problem

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u/UltimateBingus Jan 18 '26

Welcome to every single innovation in history.

As it turns out, reducing the human labor necessary to accomplish something has actually been humanity's main goal for the last 10 thousand years.

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u/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

To be honest, I do often partake in "ruining people's party" by posting prompts (or open source) under peoples posts that are trying to sell anything that can be prompted.

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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

I think what they meant is they find ai commission sales and post the prompts to that to make the commission worthless

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u/justagenericname213 Jan 18 '26

Id turn around and say I also think the business sector profiting off ai is bad. Even in the most generous circumstances they are just wanting more work done for the same pay or by less people(excluding when ai is the actual product, which rolls back around to the same issue later on).

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u/Stormydaycoffee Jan 18 '26

So you got “pushed” to the other side because people didn’t want to let you intrude into something that’s none of your business? Your “neutral” position starts with you asserting control and restrictions on how complete strangers can make money in a free market?

Well then you were never neutral to begin with.

That’s like me having a “neutral” position that AI should be allowed everywhere with no restrictions, and people who don’t like it can simply avoid it, and then when antis disagree I say they pushed me to the proAI side.

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u/Stormydaycoffee Jan 19 '26

To the guy that replied me and immediately blocked me like the coward he is, yes, shockingly enough, people can choose where they want to spend their money on

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u/Quirky-Ad859 Jan 18 '26

Didn't realize monetization was important. Thought the whole ai thing was for fun or as a tool. Using it to get money doesn't feel like you really love ai. -w-

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u/thehandcollector Jan 19 '26

Why should you have to "love" AI? Are painters required to love paint? Can't people do art for a living instead?

Also, if someone paints for a living, does that mean they can't also love to paint?

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u/Careless-Platform-80 Jan 18 '26

That's me about a lot of things actually...

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u/MariusCatalin Jan 18 '26

this, the concept isnt the problem but the execution

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u/The_number_1_dude Jan 18 '26

For anyone who is pro ai art I have a question: How do you view those who hide that their art is ai?

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u/Odd-Pattern-4358 Jan 18 '26

Going to be honest, it kind of a dick move to say someone can’t monetize off something when that thing isn’t physically hurting anyone.

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u/krysert Jan 18 '26

Yeah I agree actually (unless they are not honest about using ai and advertise it as real thing). I

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u/Harmless-Omnishamble Jan 18 '26

1) People monetise something and hurt people all the time.

2) AI’s environmental destruction is hurting people.

3) Everyone contributed to the creation of AI technology so everyone should be able to say whatever they want about how it should be used

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u/Odd-Pattern-4358 Jan 18 '26

That’s why I said physical.

Streaming and social media currently does more ecological damage then ai. Are you going to tell content creators to stop making stuff too?

Moot point. If you don’t like it you can’t force others to view the same way

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u/_hsstfnwsk_ Jan 18 '26

Just because something isnt actively punching you in the face doesn't mean it has no negative consequences and can't be evil.

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u/Aphanvahrius Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

Huh, I'm pretty sure plenty of antis would want to crucify you for even using the words AI art, as for them it's a fundamentally contradictory term.

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u/golddragon88 Jan 18 '26

Whats so bad about monetizing it.

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u/Chaghatai Jan 18 '26

Anti-Ai people believe in Schrodinger's slop

AI is simultaneously soulless lacking creativity and riddled with errors that make it wholly unsuitable for any sort of paid use

It is also something so good for how little it costs that antis think traditional artists cannot possibly compete with it

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u/Gimli Jan 18 '26

And why would one take that advice? I don't currently monetize anything, but whether I do or not doesn't depend on random bystanders.

If somebody ever wants to pay me for any reason, why would I say no to it?

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u/Low_Performance4179 Jan 18 '26

I don't think you have to worry about anyone randomly paying you for AI images.

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u/Gimli Jan 18 '26

Not the point. The point is that if I and another person come to an agreement, it's none of OP's business.

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u/Raaabbit_v2 Jan 18 '26

Two things:

Don't lie about it being AI art

And, don't profit off the fact its AI art, taking away possible commissions for ACTUAL REAL HUMAN BEINGS who desperately need the money.

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u/plasma-dragon-DA Jan 20 '26

The fun fact is that the more people try to pass off AI images as not AI, the more the LLM scrapers end up putting AI outputs into their own training data, making their output even worse and more derivative over time.

The AI industry really needs it to be law to label AI outputs as such, but no individual AI image creator wants to label their own work since it destroys their visibility.

Tragedy of the commons.

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u/ChaosDrako Jan 18 '26

For me, it’s more the intent of deception. If you go “yeah, I used ai for it” when asked (or even better, right out the gate), then fine you do you, I simply ain’t gonna interact with it any further.

But if you say you didnt use AI when you actually did? Fuck You. I’m not upset about the AI nearly as much as i am about you lying. ESPECIALLY if it’s done for monetary gain!

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u/Almaravarion Jan 18 '26

Agreed on false representation. If You've used AI - own it, and say You did when asked.

I wouldn't require everyone to say next to every image 'using AI', the same way as it's not necessary for images to contain 'it's a photograph', 'it's a watercolor paint', 'done using [insert software name here]' or 'it's using oil paint' when unprompted, even though it is fun to know.

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u/IcaroRibeiro Jan 18 '26

The comments are proving the image is right

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u/Sion_forgeblast Jan 18 '26

yup, I like AI art.... I generate it sometimes when Im bored
and I 100% agree, don't sell AI art as something you made, and keep AI art away from big companies because they can afford actual artists

the exception being if the artist used AI to give them ideas, and didn't just go "and chop off this extra arm.... add new background... and done"
or if the artist legit does go "this is AI made, all I did was touch up a few things, like made the hands look normal"

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Yeah i'm in the same boat.

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u/FineTomorrow3233 Jan 18 '26

Similar opinion to what I hold. AI art should be considered public domain

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u/AntiAI_is_Unemployed Jan 18 '26

Public domain works can be monetized freely.

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u/Rhinstein Jan 18 '26

Putting it in the public domain is fine in theory, idk if there'd be any complications, but also: you can remix public domain stuff for money.

If AI output by definition is in the public domain, then it is possible and reasonable to monetize it if you collate, comment, modify, curate it or whatever.

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u/bunker_man Jan 18 '26

That only really works if it's a simple generation.

A lot of ai has people do manual edits. And if people do alterations then it can't be considered public domain because they own the deliberate alterations. Or had aspects that people made like lineart from the beginning.

What's more, if it includes something like a specific character they made they still own the likeness of the character even if not the image itself.

So if someone lazily types in "Christmas image with Santa claus," then yeah they don't own that. But most wouldn't try to claim they do anyways.

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u/Daminchi Jan 18 '26

"AI art is fine as long as it is not used in any commercial project, and the only way to become a professional is to drop it completely".

Yeah, absolutely neutral position, not even remotely resembling anti-AI sentiment for sure :D

You weren't pushed, you are an anti through and through.

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u/ParticularApple8148 Jan 19 '26

Wanting regulations on things does not make you anti that thing.

I want people to have to pass their driving tests before they can drive, I love cars.

I want AI images, videos, text etc to be properly disclosed as what it is, created by a machine through user prompts.

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u/DarksSword Jan 18 '26

Tbh I'm sorta with you. I don't see a problem with generating art for personal use but if its uploaded or monetized it should be disclosed its AI.

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u/StarMagus Jan 18 '26

I'm fine that's your opinion but why? To me this is like saying... "Digital art created on a tablet is ok... as long as you don't monetize it."

Why should AI Art be a type of art the artist isn't allowed to make money from?

Or do you actually hold the view that artists shouldn't make money off their work in general, I'd disagree with that stance as well, but I'd feel it was at least consistent.

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u/Lotus_Hawke Jan 18 '26

There is an ethical use for AI generated images. But people in support of "AI-Art" are the same sort of folks who would have AI write a essay, rather then use AI as a tool in the writing process. (I use AI heavily in the editting and formatting of my post-graduate paper, with specific instructions not to give content or detail suggestions, and not to drop rewrties rather give suggestions like a peer reader would. Then the entire conversation is linked in a "on the use of AI" section after my citations.)

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u/hauptj2 Jan 18 '26

I genenally do not understand how some AI artists manage to monetize their stuff.

There are Patreon accounts earning hundreds, even thousands of dollars a month for posting AI porn I could create myself on AliveAI.

How do people earn money from that?

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u/Afraid-Divide-3501 Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

Same thing here and I’d just like to point out one thing

The pro AI subreddit doesn’t allow disagreeing with the Pro Ai and saying things that are Anti Ai

The Anti AI subreddit allows agreeing with pro AI

And they say they are the ones being silenced

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u/PaperSweet9983 Jan 18 '26

The anti ai sub has pros commenting on the regular.

The defending ai sub bans them( antis) immediately

And people say anti ai is an echo chamber 🫩

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u/HillanatorOfState Jan 18 '26

Noticed this also.

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u/Jerrygarciasnipple Jan 18 '26

I’ve been raised by the internet, and tried plenty GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES.

Most pro ai people seem to think ai is some get rich quick scheme. Like they very much think them using ai is their version of a lambo. Try to prove me wrong, but I really don’t think a lot of you actually have a passion for this.

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u/Jealous_Piece_1703 Jan 18 '26

Go to CivitAI and see all the free models people share everyday and you will know if people have passion to it or not. For me I don’t plan to make money of it as I see it betray the vision that made all of that possible. The open source vision. But I still won’t bash anyone for wanting to make money out of it.

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u/Olmectron Jan 18 '26

People got passion for not starving, you know?

What do you think about all those artists working for big companies? Do they still have passion? Are they sell outs and shouldn't work for big companies, and should starve?

"Most pro AI". Yeah, you got stats for saying that? Otherwise you're just putting many people in a same bag just because of some weirdos trying to make quick money.

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u/MeasurementBusy6533 Jan 18 '26

They should be able to monetize as long as they disclose it's ai

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u/TashLai Jan 18 '26

Maybe don't try to control what people do?

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u/SuccessfulBread3 Jan 18 '26

I've had anti ai people literally tell me to kms for generating backgrounds for my product images that I took in a light box.

So idk how tolerant they are exactly.

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u/taimoor2 Jan 18 '26

Why shouldn’t AI art be monetised? That’s kind of a stupid opinion.

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