MrMandolino

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Game slash narrative designer, sometimes I make music but I need to be in a really good mood for that to happen

I had a really funny joke here but it broke the website on mobile


feybeasts
@feybeasts

But please. Please. Source the art you post places if it’s not art you made. Take five seconds to say who the artist is. We’re already being battered by AI shit and theft all the time, taking the half a blink it takes to go “look at this art, it’s by so and so” or posting a link to the original, it’s a genuinely kind thing to do, and it makes life easier. If you like what artists do, give us the benefit of that little… dollop of attribution. Please.


belarius
@belarius

As someone who posts a fair amount of art and puts in a lot of extra work to cite it appropriately, I have been horrified by the way in which search engines have become rife with both GenAI slop and misinformation. Every artist you've ever liked, whether alive or already dead (maybe especially if already dead), needs your help if you want even one more person to know about what they made and to be as affected by it as you were.


MrMandolino
@MrMandolino

this might sound exaggerated but it's true. searching for images online, which is a common occurrence if you need references for a project or just to check stuff, is heavily polluted nowadays

and god help you if you search in aesthetic describing terms. i wanted to check some 90s renders for a thing and it was almost entirely midjourney kiddies


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in reply to @feybeasts's post:

Whenever I see a piece of art shared on Discord—whether it be a silly doodle or a full-rendered portrait—that isn't sourced, I tend to go finding the source myself because of this. I've grown tired of Pinterest as a result, however; the number of dead ends I've run inno due to Pinterest's lack of source attribution is bafflingly high.

in reply to @belarius's post:

i send a lot of "us" or "me" art on discord to friends, I could definitely do a better job of crediting then. obvs when I do it on public social media I credit but I don't do it as often as I should when just between my friends and I

in reply to @MrMandolino's post:

It's been really surprising to me which artistic/aesthetic themes have been more or less difficult to research. For example, when I was trying to find art relating to oceans and oceanic life for my April theme, I ended up finding a lot less AI slop but a lot more of what one might uncharitably call "gift shop art," which I think is fundamentally down to the way people speak about and link to works. "I paint fish" is, it would seem, not considered a particularly respectable artist's statement from the point of view of museum curators, compared to, say, "I paint hunting scenes," and this in turn tilts the search results.

The irony in all this is that the slop chases clout, so many of the "most respectable" artists in the fine arts tradition are, by mere virtue of being famous, now the ones being most thoroughly crowded out by their own mediocre imitators. I'd hate to be an art historian studying something about Dalí right now.

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