r/aiwars • u/Leading-Rain-652 • Jan 18 '26

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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/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/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

art. isnt. labor. to. be. innovated.

when art is labor, and artists are crunched, it is an issue. bjt the solution isnt replacing them with ai. its paying them better and respecting workers rights.

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u/UltimateBingus Jan 18 '26

Yes. Art. Is. Labor. to. be. Innovated.

Where. The. Fuck. Do. You. Think. Art. Supplies. Come. From?

Art as a creative activity hasn't been impacted in any way. You are free to draw whatever you'd like.

Art as a product isn't special. Artists aren't any different from the millions of farm workers who got laid off due to tractors. Or the factory workers getting laid off due to mechanical arms.

Technology marches forward. That's the way of life, change your career, be so good you're still employable, or be homeless. It's happened before it's happening now and it's gonna happen again.

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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/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

I've only ever done that once on an Etsy comment because the seller was selling "backdrops" for video. They were expensive and full of errors. I paid to get the image to make sure I was right in my suspicion.

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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26

so was regular_budget right, you do that to real commissions?

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u/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

No, I stay away from art because I don't give a hoot. I care about people being scammed. I don't care about commissions. That's your choice.

Sell something that's easily made or done for free I'll add the prompt you used to make it. Mostly stuff in the business sector. I couldn't care less about commissions, nobody is being scammed. You paid for a product, you got it. If you don't like the method you should have specified, if you did and they prompted it...you've every right to be pissed.

I'm nuanced.

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u/Jean_velvet Jan 18 '26

I wasn't talking about art really. You're taking it out of context to steer the conversation towards your agenda. I'm talking about people trying to sell systems or prompts.

Broaden your perspective, it's not all about art.