NO TO AI GENERATED IMAGES!

I constantly see people trying to get commissions here making blog entrys and keep improving their artistic style just to miserable fail at getting any chance, then this AI is taking aways this opportunitys so it feel really disrecpectful for the rest of artist that the guy who only use AI (And a very bad one) is getting works that true people could get instead

This will only cause that less artist join this place on first place if they see AI is taking the commissions, there are only a few active artist still on Whentai and I dont think is a good idea to lose potential artist just to protect a guy who doenst make an effort to draw and even the current artists could lose interest on keep trying if that become more common, today is one but that open the posibbilities to more AI appear eventually and will end keeping away people from using Whentai

Whentai is quite a small site and is far yet from recover from the crisis it have 2 years ago, this will only perjudicate this place to a irreparable state if you allow the AI to take the spot rather than valorate the true artists that still work here

When I joined 10 years ago I was rejected as an artist in a few occassions before finally get my artists status and I even remember a guy who contacted me in PM (Not sure why me) that was hoping to get his artist status, he actually neved did it and he left, why there are so many AI that blatantly get artist status this days?

I pretty sure and hope that more artist will show their support in this case, so admins please remove this artist status of Zioart and have a better quality filter when it comes to accept artist, this is the kind of things that damage the image of this place, fight for what is right

@Pedroillusions, totally agree. AI is destroying artist jobs. Also, i have to admit that I'm having less work since this distopia started. Sometimes I have been thinking on leave Whentai for the low jobs, and if they continuing accepting AI art i will leave it for good. I'm an anti-GenAI and I have left other social networks because of that subject.

IMVHO there are a lot of other things that are chasing real artists away from here besides AI.
Trouble getting paid seems like a bigger problem for artists and problems buying EV from the other end for commissioners.
BTW
Some AI generating sites are not using whole original art anymore but creating compilations of images.
As long as the characters are drawn from the minds of artists I don't mind if the BG is generic or AI.

#PinkyCrocodile
You are always dependable and if you bid on a commission, I will almost always pick you. Usually if I don't it's because I collaborated with an artist on a specific project. Even then I most likely would see what you'll do with the idea.

@Molrad this is not specifially about the "artist" you are hiring. Is the fact that AI is from stolen art and its not ethican in any situation. I'm totally against it and people who use it don't even deserve the right to be called artists. And AI of course hurts artists in any platform, is made from scam, stole and bullying. I'm asking that this page need to respect REAL artists. Thats why there are a lot of open demands against it and real artists are leaving social networks, for example from meta or twitter. It's a matter of principles and ethics.

#PinkyCrocodile and #Pedroillusions
OK, no more Zioarts "art" for me.
Anybody else?
This Artists VS AI reminds me of last century's music fights.
That settled down eventually even if most ***gs these days are not as good.
Of course, my parents said the same thing about classic rock.
So, it goes

WTF
I can't even write the Music & lyrics together word without the stupid censor crap.?
IMVHO that another thing wrong with Whentai...

Broo! #PinkyCrocodile you can see in the meru commission clearly it's not an AI image , name me an AI generator tool, and use the AI to create the same image of the commission and then you can say something about "AI Creation". ALL AI ARE BAD they will always mess up the image from deformed hands to faces.

If you can create the same image using AI art I will quit WHENTAI on my own. Which I am 100 percent certain you can't.

If you confuse the artstyle with AI, it's not my problem, I use Photoshop to draw the commissions and I use filters in Photoshop filter gallery, all my commissions are drawn from 0 to 100 using Photoshop and Adobe illustrator, not my problem if you don't own or use these two applications.

If you want proof I'll send you the screen shot of the layers on my application

I dont need to see anything to know you are using AI, you can fool yourself or maybe a normal user, but not a REAL ARTIST