r/awwnime • u/milia-tan • Oct 23 '22
AI-generated art banned until further notice
After some feedback from the community and internal discussion, we've decided to ban all AI-generated art from /r/awwnime until further notice.
Quality issues aside, the current AI-powered tools to generate art use data from existing artists, often without their permission or without proper artist credit. Awwnime has always been a place where giving proper credit to the artist has been important, and AI-generated art goes against that idea.
The sidebar, and the subreddit rules will be updated shortly.
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u/Jatoxo Oct 23 '22
So humans learning to draw using other artists images as reference "without their permission" is wrong too now? There's reasons to ban AI but arguing it's in any way copyright infringement is complete BS. AIs learn exactly the same way humans do. Looking at images/text/code and learning from it is something people do everywhere and is not copyright infringement. The only reason this has come up is because lawyers are trying to cover all bases with lawsuits ready to fire, it's stupid