english isn't my first language so sorry if it's a mess.
I don't know why you became the person everyone comes to about AI in this space but here we are.
First I want to make one thing very clear. I hate the rise of AI art. I hate what it has done to creative communities and I hate that now everyone is looking at every artist with suspicion
Now to the reason I'm reaching out;
What am I supposed to do when I'm getting caught in the crossfire?
Everything I make is done by hand. Every sketch, every painting, every finished piece, every WIP, every speedpaint. It's all me. Human hands. Human mistakes. My own stupid little brain And somehow, none of that seems to matter anymore.
Every time I post to my deviantart, my comments fill up with accusations that I'm using AI. People don't ask questions. They don't give me the benefit of the doubt. They just decide what I am.
I've lost most, if not all of my patreon supporters. I'm honestly on the verge of closing it because I don't even know what I'm fighting for anymore.
Artists I admire have blocked me, people I looked up to. Maybe it's because they think I'm using AI maybe it's not, but I'm not about to try and reach out to ask.
The part that hurts the most is watching people interact with my work, only to take it back minutes later. They'll like a piece maybe leave a nice comment too. Then unlike it and immediately post something like "Besties, tell me if I accidentally favourite AI art because I can't tell anymore."
Then I come to Tumblr, hoping to distract myself and I see the exact same thing happening here to others on the same scale as the sex bots posting AI "art" of big tiddy, tiny waist characters and getting hundreds of notes. W sensie?
So tell me, what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to make my art messier? Less polished? Add fake mistakes so people think it's human? Apologize because my process isn't conventional? Apologize because I started drawing this decade instead of fifteen years ago? Because I don't have uploads from 2002 proving I've always been an artist?
It feels like no matter what I do, I'm guilty. I'm tired I'm exhausted I'm watching years of effort get dismissed. I genuinely don't know what else I'm supposed to do. Ile można?
I didn’t know I was ‘that person’ until this moment But I’m so sorry you’re going through that, that’s legitimately awful and another reason why genAI needs to die sooner rather than later. people’s trust has been broken so much by fraud artists lying to their faces about what created their art and every single one of these people who has contributed to that seriously has a lot to atone for.
i hope you can find a way to resolve this and prove at least to some people that your art is real. i can’t give you any ideas about what’s driving this perception without having seen the art, unfortunately, so this is as much as i can say about it. i know being like ‘do it for yourself’ would just feel hollow at this point, i get it. it’s about sharing a part of you. but you must keep creating. it’s the only way. stay strong
