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David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated
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Yeah. I can post a picture that I know was created years ago and peeps will convince themselves it’s AI. What a horrible invention.
It’s worse with text. Don’t post anything remotely structured — not even if the context warrants it.
- You’ll confuse your audience
- They will not take your point on board and instead get sidetracked into arguing whether it is slop or not
- Certainly don’t style your text or you’re toast
In summary, don’t even summarise.
And don’t dare to use “it is not X, it is Y” structures.
I don’t use AI to write comments, I’m that bad at communicating.
I scarcely saw “space emdash space” until LLMs were popularized. As an avid emdash user myself—and I’ve been doing it (perhaps improperly) for the last 25 years—the spaces are unnecessary and look bad.
daveFELLOW HUMAN! I LIKE HOW YOU – ON PURPOSE – USED THE STYLE, STRUCTURE AND RHYTHM THESE SO CALLED AIS USE. NO REAL HUMAN WOULD WRITE LIKE THAT, RIGHT? I‘LL GO ON DOING PERFECTLY HUMAN ACTIVITIES, LIKE TALKING WITH OTHER HUMANS PETTING SMALL FURRY NON-HUMANS AND EATING.
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NekoKonekoI love using styling, bullets, first-letter capitalizing titles, and being as organized as I can be. I want to think of the reader and how I can make it easier for them, and now all the things that make it easier for them are reasons they have not to trust me.
This sucks.
There’s a study on this phenomenon, regarding text: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271
Basically, humans are mostly unable to tell apart human and AI text. They’re on average about as good as rolling dice. And they’ll say something is AI for the wrong reasons/cues.
queermunist she/herHumans can tell if something sucks, and if it sucks they’ll call it AI. That’s not a reliable way to detect AI, though.
I don’t think that’s the entire story. I heard about the study from some German YouTuber. They spent several days writing the script for a video until the text was perfect (from their perspective). And that made their audience think they turned to AI assistance. So… Seems it both makes people think there’s AI at work: Flaws in it, or being too flawless.
Idk. And from skimming the study, I gather you can train an AI to write exactly with the right amount of contractions etc, so we’re F-ed anyway.
I take something being overly bland, repetitive or smooth in a weird way as indicators as well. After that I’ll look at ChatGPT’s distinctive idiosyncrasies. I think I’m not too bad at it, but sometimes it’s really difficult. Even more so with some styles of images. Like pop art. I wouldn’t know if something was made by AI or an artist. I mean by the image itself. I can probably tell if there’s some layers of meaning in it, or if it’s just some random thing depicted. (Once I’m educated enough about the context.)
I guess “sucks” is relative, but for a normal person a lot of stuff that’s “perfect” actually sucks. It’s overly verbose, with lots of unnecessary adjectives and descriptors and punctuation that bloats the word count. It’s technically good, but masturbatory. The “Look at how smart I am!” school of writing. There are people who write like this from their training, and they will be mistaken for AI.
I guess YouTube creators need to hit the right level of verbosity and detail anyway. They’ll have to grab their audience’s attention every video or people will inevitably click on the next video and somebody else is going to get the advertiser revenue.
I get it, though. Sometimes I’ll write text and writing technical text is always a chore. I’ll write something down but there’s 5 exceptions to every rule, several side-effects and related things to explain, caveats and edge-cases. I can’t completely lose track while originally trying to explain one concept. But oftentimes I can also not oversimplify it until it’s wrong. Also bad if chapter 3 starts explaining everything in chapter 1 was a lie. 😆 Idk. I’ll try to balance it out. Get it into some kind of order. But after revision XY it always sounds like a lawyer wrote it. Guess it’s a bit of a different story with fiction. At least that doesn’t need to be watertight with facts in the same way.
Maaaybe the problem is the dipshit mob that’s whipped up in a frenzy for internet points so they can post the 2026 equivalent of “first!” or “shopped!”
Damn. I had a brief dip into the art career in like 2020/2021 and I’m glad I didn’t commit to it. It must really suck to be an artist nowadays. Not only is AI stealing a lot of customers, but dipshit AI “artists” also invade every space AND you can’t even post good art without it being considered suspicious anymore
I used to want to get into digital art. All this bullshit has me glad I stuck to painting, drawing by hand, and creating physical objects through other crafts. Crochet is one thing that machines don’t do at all yet - there are machines that can knit, but there’s still no machine capable of mass-making crocheted things.
IlixtzeSounds more like trolling from people who aren’t connected to the art community in the first place. Dave is well known in the krita community for his tutorials and comics, but he has always been staunchly against AI.
So it makes sense trolls would respond this way to demoralize him. His style doesn’t even have the rigidity and homogenization that is common to AI image generation. He just paints with very clean rendering and has some surreal themes.
I thought his stuff was generated at first as well. He makes the same mistakes the AI makes.
It’s really easy to get views and users right now by getting on the AI hate bandwagon. Some are using AI to churn out anti-AI content because there is a small profit in it. To be clear, not him but others.
What are the “usual mistakes” Ai makes? Is there a list out there somewhere? His work looks very human in the sense that there is a process present; You can tell there is line art over the painted coloring; His mistakes seem very human and the level of detail seems deliberate. Are you sure you are seeing this right? or are you just causing ruckus here?
So her pupils are smushed together, there’s a weird color near her collar necklace along her arm in the second panel, like if it was going to be skin but was changed to be part of the sleeve last minute. The Bird has a silver piece between it’s eye but it kind of turns into a badly drawn eye in the second panel, comes back on the third but it’s off and then turns into a misplaced thicker red strip on the forth.
These are the exact types of errors that an AI would make or used to at least. Cross eyed look and parts that seem to sit in between two things like if it wasn’t certain if it should do one or the other.
I get he makes everything himself, but coupled with the style, it did really look generated the first time I saw it.
I’ve found that focusing on really small details like that is kind of useless , especially in mediums like comics where it’s common to be working on a deadline; If you are start applying that logic to the frames of animation done on a budget you are going to conclude that every animation is AI, because when an artist is working fast and loose they tend to leave artifacts like those behind. On Revoy’s case; His style is much too consistent and his palettes tend to be very muted compared to most AI comics out there. I don’t read his comics much but it is very clear to me when he is doing a new “arc” usually because he keeps the color palette of his comic arcs very consistent. I think he color keys his arcs or something.
I’m not one to go around flagging people as AI, or harassing artists; But I found that the biggest tell for people relying on AI Is a lack of aesthetic direction; and a lack of unique “manerisms” or “short-hands”. Mannerisms was a term used for Italian painters that has very persistent stylization patterns, People like “el greco” that had this tendency for elongated figures and sharp facial structures. Most artists have mannerisms; Even when trying to copy someone else’s style and the more advanced an artist is, the more their mannerisms show. It’s like hand writing.
Short hand is a term you will see a lot in animation. They are like quick personal recipes to imply complex structure with ease. A certain way to draw a hand, or a certain way to convey the eyes in some expressions. The more advanced an artist is; You start to find their short-hands again and again because they have become part of their drawing process.
So the issue With AI is that, when looking at a bulk of work; You can’t find these things; Even when loras are heavily referencing other artists. Ai image models do this really weird thing where they average a bunch of mannerisms and short hands that are becoming signature to diffusion models themselves. Something about the way they seem to convey certain expressions again and again; A certain AI surprised and rage face, a certain “cute AI smile that always comes up in “adorable characters” It’s almost like the model picks up in a series of mannerisms itself and it is very hard to go around them. I’ve seen people that use LORAs or specialized training to circumvent this and in the end some pieces look like the bias of the original model and some others look like the bias of the LORA.
So basically look at the bulk of work from an artist; Even when they change mediums or style there is always this human uniformity to them; These certain limitations in their chosen aesthetics that are hard to pass by.
I don’t Really follow Revoy’s work because It’s a bit too cutesy for my personal taste, but I can identify one of his comics on the middle of a doom scroll just by his mannerisms. AI image generations tend to have this thing where they bleed to each other, It’s either hard to sort them out from the base midjourney/stable difussion style; Or they borrow so much from specialized training that you see the artist of origin. Then again; I’ve been an art fan for years. So i might be particularly sensitive to this.
In the end, trolls that want to legitimize AI will attempt to blur the lines between synthetic generation and human artists. They will attempt to steal the styles from the most successful artists and then accuse them of being in their bandwagon. It is a very scummy tactic. The people that rely on AI need either to be legitimized as “artists” or to bring down everyone into the mud with them; So i would treat people who accuse others of AI usage especially as suspicious; Check their post history; Look for their galleries, See how connected they are to the artist community. If they are a new rando that follows no one, has never commissioned or done work themselves and this person is doing the rounds raising controversy, You might have found a troll account!
An indie game i really like got attacked by trolls spreading lies about the art being AI, even when the game developers responded with evidence that their art wasn’t AI generated.
We are at a point where many can’t anymore tell the difference between AI and a real thing. That’s not good at all. Of course there’s also trolls and other idiots who thinks that everything they can’t understand is made by AI.
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ZerushWhat would they say about Patrick Woodroffe (*1940 +2014)?
https://uk.pinterest.com/eyeshakers/patrick-woodroffe/
Or Salvador Dali (1904 -1989)?
Maybe they also think that Hironimous Bosch (1450 -1516) used AI
Terrible that people on surreal artwork always think that it is made by AI
None of those look AI generated tho?
Not more as the images from the artist from this thread.
The worst isn’t that users confused real art with AI, but if they think that AI images are real. In the first case they are devaluing the artist, in the second it can have devasting results for the whole population by manipulation and misinformations.
Not more as the images from the artist from this thread.
There’s a distinctive style associated with AI when it comes to comics. It’s mildly close to his style and the artists also tends to make basic perspective error you would find AI making.
People tend to be quick on the draw when calling out AI generated content but his comics do come across as looking like it in general. Not his fault or nothing, but no one is doing the same with the other artists you mentioned is all.
Posting a timelapse of him creating the art is a great way to prove it’s human created. I think this kind of social proof is going to pay dividends for future artists.
lechekaflanNo thanks to the goddamn moneygrubbing techbros, art now is nearly screwed. Like I’ve been lurking over there in spezland and seeing some Blender artists being scrutinized whether their renders are genuine or not, and they have to show the same scene but in wireframe; and likewise in YT some people have to put up “no AI” disclaimers for previously unknown music such as underground rap mixtapes.
I’d take it as a compliment. If you are worried by these accusations i think the best way to avoid is to document how you create your art pieces. Like the wave girl’s water where the wave crushes looks amazing.
Rob T FireflyFrom OP’s post, bold emphasis added by me:
Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep coming, and they’re getting stronger.
LumidaubUnfortunately you can generate timelapses so they have stopped being reliable. It’s amazing what lengths these people will go to to pretend they’re artists, they’d be better served putting all that energy into actually learning art.
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his comics are great. i enjoyed the full page of short format comics: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/peppercarrot.html
first impressions give a strong ai vibe, but he makes a good case that ai looks like his work instead indeed
He’s been doing this same art style for many years, certainly before LLMs were launched.
His Pepper & Carrot series started in 2014, all freely released under a Creative Commons license, by the way:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%26Carrot
I like his art, and have been reading his comics before AI flood, but one thing I find very annoying now that I didn’t notice before: AI slop tends to draw characters staring intently at nothing, completely missing an object they are supposed to look at, so now it irks me whenever I see that even if it’s a human made art. Edit: and to be fair, here the character looks at a parrot instead of painting, which is valid but feels off at a first glance, maybe I just need to go touch some dry grass left. end edit
Same thing to a lesser extent for when a character does an action like chopping a PC monitor with an axe, but it looks like a slap instead, which I also have seen made by humans. I get it, action poses are hard, it’s just now I’m more sensitive to those because of all the slop 😩
The same happens to people who write a lot and pay attention to their style, such as this gentleman. The way LLMs generate text is strongly influenced by what used to be considered a high-effort eloquent style. Varied sentence lengths, triplets, typographically correct punctuation, yada yada yada. Until recently, that stuff used to be the hallmark of professional writers (and Kenyans, apparently).
What were LLMs trained on? Professional writing, first and foremost. Books, scientific papers, op-eds, blog posts. So by default they take a polite, professional tone with all the flourishes and best practices that previously used to be de rigueur for authors and the like. So now what happens when someone used to “proper” writing writes something?
Everyone thinks it’s AI slop because that’s how LLMs talk. High effort now looks like low effort. And because tech bros immediately went on to develop “humanizing” tech, any other style will soon also look like low effort. And the same is true for art: Being able to produce highly detailed pictures with spectacular colors and shadows went from something impressive to evidence that you’re just a random jackass with a ChatGPT subscription.
You can’t really win anymore. Anything short of a live performance or a feature-length movie could feasibly have been generated by a fully automated content mill. That really sucks if you want to engage in creative expression of any kind and doubly so if you once thought you could make a living off of that.
It seems like it has way too stable continuity between different panels to be AI generated.
I fucking hate social networks for this exactly, the 80% of the users are just lazy motherfuckers who do not do anything for their lifes but comment shit, their life force is literally criticize others while being such useless pieces of shit
Must be frustrating. I’ve been following him since he was making tutorials using alchemy and mypaint around 2010, so I’ve seen his style coalesce. I can understand the commenters’ suspicion, it just kinda sucks that some of the most common AI styles landed so close to his..
Is the yellow tint in the strip him deliberately trying to make some sort of point, or is it always like that?
I saw comments on his Fediverse post of the comic indicating it may be that “golden sunlight” shading idea of adding warmth. It’s much flatter of an effect in generated images than in his art, I think, where sometimes it’s heavy and sometimes light and not even always present.
I hadn’t noticed it, but the whole style is petty similar to a lot of his recent work, so I guess it’s not a deliberate point.
“Everybody wants to be a sleuth” or something, analog to “everyone’s a critic”.
I wish it was limited to visual artists; just a few minutes ago I read a lengthy & well-written comment right here in the fediverse, to which someone replied “they shouldn’t have used AI to write it”. Somehow completely ignoring the actual content.
This has been going on for a while. Partially because AI-generated imagery was really bad just a couple of years ago, so people feel competent, otoh it gets harder to detect, which is a challenge… not sure where I’m going with this, but I have a feeling that this is an aspect of human behavior that manifests in other regards, too, and has forever. And that I believe it will pass, although the downside might be that artists will start to create things that deliberately do not look “like they’re AI”.
I get it though, the state of everything right now really really sucks. When I enjoy content that I later find to be AI generated, I feel like I’ve been deceived or manipulated and it has me doubting the authenticity of pretty much everything to avoid feeling that way.
I don’t know what the solution would be to it at this point either
I don’t feel that way.
Almost ten years ago I read something an AI had written “by itself”. Apart from the initial paragraph, which was the human-supplied prompt, it read like something a student might have written to get the required number of words for their essay.
I don’t see AI making good content, ever. If that changes, I’ll re-evaluate my position.
In other words, shitty content is shitty no matter who created it.
One also needs to consider that all AI content has still ultimately been created by humans at some point, and that’s where things get murky.
The solution is to not worry about whether it’s AI generated. It’s a tool; it can be used well by skilled people to create a good output, and it can be used poorly by unskilled people to create a poor output.
Of course that’s true for things like programming if used only as a chat-based responsive rubber duck to help debug or investigate potential architecture. People using it to spit out entire projects is terrible though and it’s destroying the open source ecosystem by making it difficult to find projects that aren’t jank and likely to be immediately abandoned
But in regards to generating any sort of art media, there is no good output or skilled creators because there’s no skill or effort put into it. You’re not skilled because you put a prompt into a chat bot in the same way you’re not a skilled chef for putting in an order at McDonalds.
This is a temporary issue; if a project you are interested in gets abandoned, fork it and maintain it (with AI). The problem is that too many people are rejecting the tool that can mitigate the issue. If history is any indication, this is just growing pains, and won’t last long.
I really don’t mean this to sound harsh, but what you’re saying here is gatekeeping and inaccurate.
I can give you an entire movie studio with everything you need to create a movie, including writers, actors, special effects, etc– leaving only the directing to you, and you can still output garbage. Just having all the tools at your disposal doesn’t make something good quality. However, if we put a skilled director in that same exact situation, and the output will be significantly better. AI can handle much of the process, but that doesn’t mean there’s no skill or effort involved.
Additionally, writing prompts does involve creativity. Coming up with an idea is a creative process. To lean on your metaphor, coming up with an interesting and delicious dish is the creative aspect of the process, not just cooking it.
“…what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
Quoting an Adam Sandler movie at me instead of addressing anything I said says more about you than what I said. lol
You’re missing the point of why AI output is so obnoxious.
It’s like an updated version of the bullshit asymmetry principle: it takes considerably more time and energy to parse AI-produced works (art, text, music etc) than it does for traditional low-quality low-effort shit, because it’s produced in large quantities and has a superficial look of being professionally produced.
AI hasn’t made shit artists better, but it has enabled them to suck all the oxygen out of the room and make the process of seeking and enjoying good art intractable and infuriating. It also hasn’t made good artists better either, because good artists are already better than AI.
I agree that this is a concern, but it’s a problem already solved. Do you read every single post on Lemmy? How do you deal with all the garbage, low effort posts?
And while you’re focusing on the negative aspects of AI, you might consider the flip side of it. How many good, creative ideas died on the vine because the person who came up with the idea lacked the technical skill to implement it?
I understand that it might not seem this way for those people who attempt to make money on their technical skill, but lowering the bar between idea to implementation is an overall benefit to culture.
I disagree. Anyone working in a skilled profession can attest to the number of people who come to them saying that they have this “great idea” for you to work on, for free. It’s never a great idea. Skilled professional have their own great ideas, and that’s often the motivator for acquiring new skills to make those ideas possible.
Lowering the bar between idea and implementation, in a capitalist, surveillance/attention-based, target-marketed world further incentivizes low-effort, high-engagement practices and likely shrinks the space for high-effort markets.
Meanwhile the tools “lowering the bar” are rent-only or need hardware that is quickly becoming unaffordable. Silicon Valley’s only play is enshittification. If it actually is successful it’s only a matter of time before they switch from growth mode to profit mode and it’s google search all over again but this time you’re paying a monthly fee. If you want to have an idea of how that works out ask an adobe user– and those were products that were already profitable. There is no way people are willing to pay the actual cost of ai, it will need to be extracted. The rest is externalities.
There is no possible way you can even begin to support this statement.
It’s not exactly unheard of to read about an indie developer who says something like “I learned to code so I could implement my idea”. It is a real thing. How many people had an idea but couldn’t spend the time learning the skills needed to implement it? It seems wildly inprobable that the number is zero.
You’re pointing out potential issues with the economic model, not with AI.
This “there is an initial investment cost” issue has always existed. I couldn’t learn to play guitar without a guitar. Except for a vague “AI = bad” sentiment, I’m not even sure why you’re discussing this. I never said lowering the bar meant there would be no bar.
Arguably though this is how new art styles are often created. What is the current safe, trendy art gets challenged. Andy Worhol painted a grid of Campbell’s tomato soup cans which is considered an important piece of American Modern Art. I’m certainly not saying “an upside to AI is that it will force artists to be more creative” or anything like that, moreso that as you said, a pattern of artists rebelling against the norm is a historical cycle rather than something new AI will bring on.
It will always be an arms race. If someone develops a new style that doesn’t look like AI, then it’s only a matter of time before an AI model can generate that style.
And the future I see for this arms race is eventually it will be better than humans at producing art that doesn’t look like AI.
I’m at the point where I think AI generated shit should be judged on its own merit rather than for whether or not it’s AI because eventually we won’t be able to tell from other factors and any attempts will end up hurting humans more than the AIs (because they have no feelings to be hurt and will just continue while some portion of the humans will get discouraged and stop bothering to try).
Plus, at least with programming, saying code sucks because it’s AI generated is weak. If a code submission is shit, there will be technical reasons that it is shit that have nothing to do with who (or what) wrote it.
I always found AI art easy to spot. washed out/dull colours with usually heavy lines. That’s all I look at. So looking at this artists work it’s clear it isn’t AI to me at least.
Yes, and when the models change, you won’t be able to detect shit. Meaning you’ll be accusing actual artists if you aren’t careful. This shit is changing, and fast. Don’t be complacent
Feel similar to NothingEverHappens, now we get EverythinIsAI. That fucking garbage just further erodes trust.
I had someone ask me recently if a picture of Thomas Aquinas was AI-generated. It was a 15th-century painting.
Which is the goal. Low trust societies are easier (initially) to control
Nothing like knowing all your art was 💯 trained on without your consent.
The first time I saw one of his comics I really thought it was AI as well. The yellow tint was part of it, but I think another part is the background and foreground not matching. Another thing that stood out was just the amount of detail, felt way more effort than most web comics.
It really is too bad for the artists, he clearly puts a ton of work into these, and it no doubt hurts to have others undercut that.
I’m afraid to say I did too and it wasn’t until I saw his time-lapse that I was fully convinced. I think it’s the soft, studio ghibli like style. One of the chat GPT models was spruiking it a year or so ago and everybody was posting ‘Ghiblified’ profile pics so now it’s kind of synonymous with low effort AI art (which is such a shame).
A lot of people are dumb as hell, and it really shines through every time humanity comes up with something new, good or bad.
David has been drawing the Pepper and Carrot webcomic for well over a decade now and his style has been pretty consistent.
He makes them all in Krita as well.
What an amazing artist. Wow! So many great works. 🤯
Relevant David Revoy cartoon: https://thebrainbin.org/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/1848750/authenticity-problem
Pro tip: when copying a link to a Lemmy/Piefed/Kbin/etc post, please make sure you use your instance’s option to copy the link to the post on its original instance (the instance the post was made on), rather than simply copying the link to the post on your instance out of your URL bar. On your instance’s web interface, that option is in the More drop down next to the Boost button, just below the post title. (On a Lemmy instance, the link to the original post is the Fediverse icon right next to the upvote and downvote buttons, and you can right click and Copy Link from there).
Obviously, when you open a post in the browser on an instance that isn’t yours by clicking a link (for example, this link to this same post on my instance, which is a vanilla Lemmy instance), you can’t interact with it, because you aren’t logged in, because you don’t have an account on that instance. To interact with it, you need to open the same post through your own instance.
If you have a link to a post on the instance it was created on, you can simply paste that URL (the whole thing) into your instance’s search bar to open it on there, so you can vote/comment/etc. Some mobile apps can even do this automatically. However, this doesn’t work if you paste a link to a post through an instance other than the instance it was created on. In order to interact with the post you just linked to, people have to click the link to open the post on your instance, then click the button on there to copy the original link, before pasting it into their own instance. It’s polite not to make them go through that extra work.
Judging by your account age, it seems you’re new to Lemmy, so you probably didn’t know that. Just something to keep in mind for future. :)
Seems like it would be more effective to get the client applications to (suggest to) clean up the links. All users can’t remember that.
I blame the image generators more than the people. If they didn’t exist, nobody would be blaming the artist for anything.
There are probably artists thinking “I don’t wanna post my art online cause what if they call it fake or use it to train” too nowadays.
Alternatively, we could change social traditions to one where it’s normal to go “Well artist’s credit is there, I will investigate real quick.” But that’s for later.
Can someone explain what an open source comic artist is?
Not only are his comics CC, his entire artistic workflow is built on FOSS. His art tablet runs Linux, he uses Krita for digital painting, his fonts and brushes are FOSS too, and he provides them free of charge for anybody to download.
He also provides free tutorials and guides on his setup and workflow, and advice one how to start using FOSS as a professional artist.
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His comic is open source. Might seem like a moot point seeing as how most comics can be seen on the web for free but it lets people use it for other stuff. From what I understand, a few of his comics have been turned into short animations and things like that. Kind of cool tbh.
I think it’s in reference to
TFW your illustrations are too aesthetically pleasing 🫠
If it’s any consolation, we are nearing the point where it’s legit impossible to tell and people will slowly go back to caring about the content instead.
What does this mean? Is art not content?
It means that once the comic output from AI is indistinguishable from the output of an artist, then people will stop concentrating on the tools used and go back to judging a comic on if it was funny or entertaining.
This guy draws really well but none of his comics are good. It’s all trite boring pandering.
To be clear, I’m not saying hand made art has no value, just that a shit joke isn’t somehow better than a good one just because of the tools used.
Good content + real art > Good content + AI > boring content + real art
Agreed. That’s why I keep referencing the toupee fallacy: it’s easy to detect AI slop because it’s slop but anything well-made flies under the radar. This leads many people to assume that everything made using AI is by default not good and conversely when something is good they falsely assume a human made it. I’d argue that virtually every devout AI hater has at some point enjoyed AI content because they failed to detect it as such.
So no, not all toupees look bad - you only notice the bad ones.
Damn, that’s a super crass way of approaching the world.
It’s crazy to imagine someone judging something on the value and enjoyment it brings them.
It’s crazy to imagine the only value in an art work is how well it conveys a joke
Not the only value, just that it’s the main one. Because we read comics to be entertained, not to marvel at someone’s drawing talent. If comics were only about art quality, then we wouldn’t have stick figure and paint drawings getting upvotes either.
Like I said, having something hand drawn well is always a huge positive, but it doesn’t make up for trite low denominator content.
Good content + art > good content + AI > bad content + art
Going Art > AI no matter what just means you have little perspective and live your life through knee jerk reactions.
If you go just by content, his comics suck, deal with it.