…I’m going to put aside how easy art skills are to develop if you actually try, for the time being. I’ve just read a 20 post rant about this exact mentality on bluesky, by an actual artist, and they said it better than I can summarise.

You honestly think someone putting in their own time and effort is trolling, but telling an AI to shit out some image using stolen art assets involves thought and time? You think low-quality hand-made art is more insulting than AI slop?

If you actually think that, then further discussion will get us nowhere, so don’t bother replying.

And nothing of value was lost.

Edit: This was written taking OP at face value, and now I know the truth, it takes on new meaning.

Try becoming a warlock. Do one thing, take a short rest, then do another thing.

I am one of the submitters. I admit, my submission is shit. Still better than AI.

And yet, I’ll still call them a vast improvement to AI. Because it can’t be worse.

Just got word, the coal industry does not want a new, more efficient fuel source to appear, so they’re ending gay porn.

More badly photoshopped hats!

Gonna throw my shitty hat in the ring, just so there’s more hats in the ring. I encourage more people to add their hats, too.

Gosh, I wonder why more artists aren’t active on the instance with the AI banner image. Surely, the lack of artists justifies the hostility towards artists and doesn’t create a vicious cycle.

Those dogshit images are a vast improvement to AI.

Yay! This is gonna be so peak.

Sorry, but I think that’s a wrap on the conversation. She beet you. Sometimes, a joke goes flat and you’ve gotta roll with it.

A lovely picture of a pussy (cat)

The phrase “is this a joke” usually denotes something as farcical, only for this to be a literal application of that phrase, creating a meta-subversion and, thus, comedy.

I mean, I liked it, at least.

Ah, like my temporary code.

I’m asking for the image to be replaced, and suggesting a way to do that. If we do that, and if there’s compensation, can be a later discussion.

Yeah, 100%, which is why I’m making the case to convince them. If nothing else, I’m letting my voice be heard.

There’s an anime called ZatsuTabi, where every episode has the main character go somewhere different, and every place is a real place. It almost feels like cheating.

I would also suggest Syowa Station in antarctica, visited in A Place Further Than the Universe. It’s already listed with Singapore, but the station is a real place too.

Edit: Oh! Also, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics is set in Gifu.

I’m glad someone said something about it, because I don’t like having to see it when I look at the main page. The uneven fingers disturb me. I’m sure we have a few artists on here that wouldn’t mind their work getting main-page treatment. You could run a contest!

I mean, why not? The tree’s empty now.

all of your claims have so many asterisks attached that they’re essentially pointless

No they don’t, but say whatever you need to ignore me. That’s definitely what someone arguing in good faith would do.

internet access has been shown to have all the same negative effects

Citation needed.

it’s a useful technology

Quite the opposite, actually. It causes enormous problems and has no benefits that aren’t better served by existing technologies that lack those problems.