As someone who has been an artist before,
and had my hard work stolen by billionaires without compensation and my copyright violated against my consent,
I cannot tell you how much rage and disgust I feel inside every single time I see a genAI image. I'm guessing many other artists feel the same. Please keep it out of my sight at least.
I did a short thread this morning about the fact that blocking scraper bots entirely will also block the two biggest search engines.
It particularly hits home at the moment because I'm seriously stressing about pricing my work and whether, even if I get the pricing right, I will be able to make any of it pay for itself. Meanwhile literal trillionaires feel like they can take my work and do what they want with it.
If I am ever made emperor, they will be sentenced to life of hard labor picking up trash on the roadside or cleaning up toxic waste.
In the meantime, I block people who post machine generated crap.
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