So I absolutely despise AI.

I hate how everyone seems to be fine with blindly feeding it information and data and then blindly using other peoples’ information, data, and creations without their consent.

I hate how “just use ChatGPT” is a thing.

I hate how “that sounds like a ChatGPT generated comment” is a thing.

And I really hate how it has infiltrated art (and creative endeavors in general).

FOR EXAMPLE.

I logged onto DeviantArt the other night – which I do on occasion, because I still post my garbage art there – and noticed that a lot of the posts on the main page looked…artificial.

I dug around a bit and found discovered that there is now a button you can press to indicate if some or all of a submission is AI-generated.

So I did a little experiment. I considered 30 random submissions on the main (most recent) pages of DeviantArt. Out of those 30 submissions, guess how many indicated at least some use of AI?

SEVENTEEN.
OUT OF THIRTY.

That’s disgusting.

What on earth are these people contributing to the art community other than theft?

Why are these people trying to pass this garbage off as art?

The worst part of it is that half of these idiots are probably the type to say “digital art isn’t art lololololol”