Okay, in case you were curious, this is the post I was talking about! Now, here's the thing, the original post has the art now removed. Alright, dude, you removed the art good on you.
I just realized that the OP from my reblog had removed the AI art, but then also removed my reblog from their notes!
Hey, dude, I'm calling out that you're making unethical art! AI art has been proven to be harmful to the environment, that goes for all generative AI—ChatGPT prompts, OpenAI art, AI generated text, AI generated memes, etc. This AI art that you made, OP, was clearly basing itself off of somebody else's art.
There's this wonderful drawing of Steve and his parents, which can be found here, that shares a shocking and disturbing resemblance to the AI's version of Steve Harrington. Now, am I saying this art is the only one to influence this AI image? No, but the similarities are stark and real.
It's also been brought to my attention, OP from my reblog, that you have used generative AI before for Steddie related art. (I saw the Eddie Hobbit AI—what the fuck are those tattoos? One of them looks like a curled up shrimp on his left forearm; last I remember, Eddie doesn't have a shrimp tattooed on him! Not to mention, OP, the guitar's fret board is entirely inaccurate! If you took the time to research what a fucking guitar looks like, you'd notice the little dots that are indicated on some of the frets—typically to show every other fret—are never directly next to each other! And I should know, I've been playing an acoustic guitar—much like the one Hobbit Eddie is holding in your little AI image—for over ten years, which is well over half of my life at this point). You are not slick, OP, it is clear you are prompting an AI machine to make art for you. And that's beyond disappointing. That's frustrating and ugly. Considering, too, that it seems like the AI is scraping the internet and basing the looks of your Steddie characters from other people's art; people, mind you, who are most likely still a part of the Steddie/Stranger Things fandom!
The people who do post real and authentic and beautiful art in this fandom are people who are some of the kindest individuals you'll ever meet, most likely work day jobs, they do this art in their free time, they want to work with you and make these images as accurate as possible, and some of them are making small amounts of money in commissions. And for you to act like what you're doing is something to be hidden; to delete comments, reblogs, etc. that is calling out the fact that you are generating art—that is all bullshit behavior.
Write what you want to write. Post stories. Make people coo and awe and cheer over your words, but stop this shit with scraping our own fandom for art that is soulless, inaccurate, and an amalgamation of estimations. Seriously, man, that is so completely uncool of you.
And I wanted to be nice, dude, but to see the fact that you hid my reblog from your followers and from other people outside of your blog, that is disgusting behavior, man.
Own up to the fact that you did use AI to make art for you. Apologize or something for it. It's easier to admit that you did something wrong instead of trying to bury that wrong under more wrongs. You're digging yourself a deeper hole by hiding your use of AI.
And, to everybody else reading this, obviously this an Anti-AI zone. I don't fuck around with this horseshit. It's destroying communities by way of pollution, it's using our clean water sources, it's using more energy than we could ever imagine using. And for what? Three dudes looking in different directions?
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