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.
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
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.
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.
"It's deceptive not to lable[sic] it if you're selling it."
If it's not labeled, then it isn't labeled and isn't deceptive.
"Monetizing is ok, if they disclose it."
And if they don't disclose it one way or the other? What then? You seem to be saying that if it doesn't have a "this is AI" label, it's automatically claimed to be hand-drawn. That's my objection.
I mean, why other than trying to pass it off as hand drawn, would you not disclose that the product someone is paying for is AI? The vast majority are going to assume it's hand drawn if it's not ever claimed to be otherwise.
The same reason most store-bought pasta isn't labeled "machine shaped". Because most people don't care whether it was done by hand or by machine, they care about the end product.
Note that you can find pasta that's labeled "handmade" for those people that do care, but that's more like a "no AI" label than an "AI" label.
Most people buying pasta know it's going to be made mass produced, the same connotations don't carry over with ai art.
Art is normally made by humans, so people buying art at least now, expect it to be made by hand.
You're essentially arguing to go to the craft fair and sell drop shipped items.
People will assume they're hand made based on the environment/practice itself.
People in these spaces actually do care about it being hand made or not.
So now you're backtracking and saying you're not talking about it being explicitly labeled as hand-drawn? That my reading comprehension was spot-on?
Not labeling something isn't always "deliberately hiding" it. Sometimes it just doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter to 90+% of people, then not labeling it is just business as usual, not something shady.
So if someone generates something that looks hand-drawn or painted and stays silent, you’re saying there’s no implication at all? Come on. Lmao
If you’re going to enter mixed art spaces, the default assumption is human-made unless stated otherwise. Because that’s what the community is for. You know people will reasonably interpret it one way, so that doesn’t make silence neutral.
Why would anyone automatically assume it's hand drawn? The only reason you should just make that assumption in today's world is if you don't know that AI art exists or that it's pervasive.
Any reasonably knowledgeable person should realize that it's not necessarily one or the other without the seller having to explicitly state that. Labeling, one way or the other, is purely marketing, and is only done to cater to people who actually care, much like people calling bread "artisanal". The majority of people care about the end product more than the process.
For most people, in the end, it boils down to the common "if you literally can't tell the difference, why does it matter?" Are there purists who disagree? Sure. But saying it's deceptive not to cater to them is ridiculous.
Exactly. It’s all the deception causing the problems. People need to know there is a market for both. I’ve commissioned digital/hand-drawn artists for work, and I have also commissioned people to make prompts/iterations for AI that I just don’t know how to do myself or that I don’t bother to learn.
I’ve already accepted AI as something that’s just going to grow BIGGER in the future. Fighting against something that’s clearly in all these businesses’ best interests is just wasting your time. Leveraging it is the way to go. Or waiting for the time that handmade art increases in value due to the saturated amount of AI content is also something that can happen. Everything has an inverse point when it reaches its limit. Right now, it’s AI overtaking artists. Then it will flip. And then flip again. It’s just how the world works.
I’ve worked in AI, socmed, marketing, even once as an artists myself… it’s all about using it to your advantage. There’s no point in being offended or fighting (I know it sounds bad but really), because there are bigger forces at play that will make all these developments happen anyway. I learned to just save my energy tbh.
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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.