NightrunnerXM

Since DA has so helpfully decided to just delete my old Journal archive...gotta do this again! :roll: The old "Ways to support the Artist" Journal is just the title now, apparently...ugh... Also, by the nature of it, this is going to be a wall of text, so there's your fair warning. :) If you want to commission art from me, send me a PM! It's easier for all involved. So, requests...I don't take them, usually. Sometimes a commenter will mention something and I'll go "Hey, that's an interesting idea" and riff off it. I try to make sure I give credit where credit's due on those. However, mostly I don't do requests because the few times I've opened it up as a possibility I've gotten swamped with them. And since it can take anywhere from 3-7 days on average to complete an image...having two dozen requests and the "where's my request" messages taking up time I could be getting paid for isn't really doing anyone any good. Least of all--me! I gotta eat too, y'know... :shrug:

So, I’ve been doing some more thinking about this AI art thing since I posted my last journal on the subject, and I think I’ve finally come down on a definite side. Being conflicted about it was getting irritating. The biggest argument--or at least the most common one I've seen--against AI art is that it’s theft. The arguments I’ve seen supporting that position aren’t very good, unfortunately. I’ve also seen it called fraudulent, too, but again, the arguments haven’t been all that great. Part of that, I think, is that artists aren’t debaters. We’re observers and creators. We make something and put it out into the wild to live or die on the audience’s whims. We don’t usually craft carefully worded arguments meant to persuade someone to our way of thinking. Most of us, I think, would shy away from that as being a form of propaganda. There is, however, a word that no one seems to have used to describe AI art. Not that I’ve seen, anyway. Forgery. AI art is a forgery. Why? Because it’s