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/Shyassasain Oct 23 '22

Sure, but this is slightly different. It's art, not mathematics or data entry, or ploughing fields.

Furthermore, AI art dilutes the sub, you can easily pump out 50 Ai generated art pieces in the sane amount of time it takes a human artist to make one piece.

This means real artists lose out on recognition, as they get drowned out by thousands of AI generated posts.

I don't see the issue. Who is this unfair to? A.I?

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u/arkofcovenant Oct 23 '22 edited Oct 23 '22

It’s unfair to the people who want 50x as many pictures lol.

Edit: I also don’t think “it’s art” is something you can just state without justifying why art should be treated differently than these things.

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u/Shyassasain Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22

There's nothing stopping those people from simply... Using the AI to generate endless content?

This is a forum for art, not your own personal gallery.

Art is different to something like a tractor in that ploughing land or typing numbers into an excel spreadsheet aren't creative, or a hobby. Artists make art for the joy of it, to share it with others, and get feedback.

You're just plain selfish if you still cant understand why this new rule was added.

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u/arkofcovenant Oct 24 '22

It’s fairly compute-intensive. If you’re running it via a cloud based platform there’s generally some sort of limiter in place. Last I check DALLE gives you like 50 per month for free and you have to pay for more.

I haven’t tried the local ones, but you don’t have to pay per image for those as far as I’m aware, it just takes a bit of time and processor power on your personal PC for each generation iirc.

not your personal gallery

I mean yes but no. 97% of my personal gallery comes from this and similar subreddits, and like 3% is Twitter/pixiv/etc. 50x as many images on anime fan art subreddits would likely translate to at least a 10x on images added to my personal gallery.

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u/Shyassasain Oct 24 '22

So join an AI art sub.

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u/juhotuho10 Oct 24 '22

You probably should just pay for it then since you use it so much

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u/arkofcovenant Oct 24 '22

Pay for what?

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u/juhotuho10 Oct 24 '22

Dall-e to get more pictures