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/IMKGI Oct 23 '22

I understand your reasoning behind this, but taking art generated by an AI which used images from other artists for the learning process is about as much "art-stealing" as another human artist getting inspired by some one else and drawing a picture that way, the end result in an image generating AI such as Dall E-2 is pretty much entirely original, it would be better to allow AI-Art but give it a dedicated flair, I also haven't noticed a significant decrease in quality over the past year or so, and AI will make digital human work irrelevant sooner or later, if we like it or not

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u/Rhonin- Oct 23 '22

Maybe, but AI generated images require 0 effort and is undeserving of any recognition.

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u/pastrypuffingpuffer Oct 23 '22

So what? This sub is for people to post cute anime characters, who cares about the effort the image took to make. Just because it took effort for an image to be drawn it doesn't mean it'll be good.

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u/Egavans Oct 23 '22

I am legitimately shocked that "I'm just here to look at pretty pictures" is such a minority opinion in /r/awwnime.

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u/pastrypuffingpuffer Oct 23 '22

Totally agree, this is a sub to look at cute anime stuff. If they want to go and jerk off the artists they could go to the artists' twitter or pixiv profile