No to AI

It is amazing to see the support the community at artstation has on this subject.
I have been very against the use of Ai since I learned where the dataset was coming from. I see some benefits that can be used within some of the processes but I don't feel the need or want to use it personally and I do think some people should be ashamed of themselves based on what I have read but I don't want to go into that too much...

I feel the use of this takes away the fun of creating and I don't like that artists of all kind are being dragged into this machine that we don't want to be part of.

There are a lot of interesting philosophical and theoretical debates which I am happy to see happening right now. But that is also a sort of noise getting in the way of the real issues that are currently happening and we need regulation in place now to ease us into this new dystopic world of machines reducing creative work.
Governments, companies and creatives should be talking openly about how we can come together and allow human creativity to continue without much disruption.

Hopefully people will look at our concerns and try to understand what the implication of this sort of technology could have. All I have really seen are bad faith arguments from a lot of not so talented "prompt engineers" that generate entire galleries of derivative art.

Having said all that, I do think there is a place for some ai, upres'ing imagery, changing lighting, NeRFs, better image compression algorithms, VDB compression, etc...
My main concern is the likes of scraping the internet for images and using them within datasets. This should at least be an opt in function and artists could get compensated based on if it gets pulled in from prompts.

There are many better artists that have articulated their thoughts much better than I. But I feel like I should also post this up in support of my fellow human creatives!