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In reply to the discussion: I created some avatars for you all to use [View all]JHB
(37,447 posts)72. How did you create them? They look like AI (so-called) art.
I have some bones to pick if you're promulgating replacing artists with automation. Plenty of worthy art from real people.
Also, DU has some specific technical requirements for avatar images. None of these conform to those.
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AFAIK we've never had anyone here pushing DUers to use AI-created art, which
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#33
Using AI to generate images isn't like Pollock throwing paint at a canvas. It's like throwing a
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#53
I guess you somehow missed all the news this year about artists striking and lawsuits
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#99
Considering I've been posting regularly about the problems with generative AI, I have
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#110
Looks exactly like the type of stuff my AI app creates. Especially things like birds with no heads
Quixote1818
Oct 2023
#26
AI art is unethical and ugly and hurts the environment. If you can't be assed to draw it yourself,
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 2023
#31
Yes. And it's part of the actors' strike still continuing. Journalists are
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#60
The Trump NFTs were photoshopped, not AI-generated - link below - but RWers have been using AI
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#82
Don't delete it!! There's a very active peanut gallery here at DU.
littlemissmartypants
Oct 2023
#44
My list is loooonnng. Sometimes I post a thread and it will say "ten replies"
littlemissmartypants
Oct 2023
#59
Or I might want to mind my own business. To set an example for others.
littlemissmartypants
Oct 2023
#68
You said your art isn't just AI, and that the AI images you got just by typing in
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#74
I work in publishing and AI has put a number of illustrators I know out of work
Quixote1818
Oct 2023
#76
Both commercial artists and photographers have been very, very badly hurt by
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#77
No charge to see the free 2 headed calf but the 2 headed person is going to cost ya.
Prairie_Seagull
Oct 2023
#39
Love them all, it the first Pelosi one is perfection. You captured her wit, intelligence and power
MLAA
Oct 2023
#42
How talented. Nice work! Especially like the Nancy Pelosi ones, but they're all great!
Fla Dem
Oct 2023
#55
At first I saw, and now cannot unsee, big fingers reaching out toward the President
Croney
Oct 2023
#89
Why don't you look at this thread and watch the FTC roundtable with real artists so
highplainsdem
Oct 2023
#96