AI ART IS EVERYWHERE... and nobody notices | ✩ How to tell if it's AI art ✩

🌿 Hello Bean! Today, I'm gonna be talking about AI art and that it is literally everywhere and show you that nobody really notices. I'm talking about people and companies using AI art for commercial use and how that is actually stealing from artists. This is an important topic for me. I hope you enjoy! ✩

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➠ CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro
00:53 - What the video is about
01:48 - Lofi channel using AI Art
02:13 - People praising AI Art
03:10 - What I think is wrong with using AI Art
03:44 - Using AI Art is stealing
04:51 - How to identify AI Art
05:03 - AI vs. Hands
05:36 - AI vs. Details
06:13 - AI vs. Texture
06:52 - AI vs. Clothing and Armor
07:40 - AI Art on Pinterest
08:19 - AI Art on ArtStation
08:45 - Amazon Prime using AI Art in Fallout Promo
09:08 - Adobe using AI Art
09:30 - Big Companies using AI Art
09:49 - Please, Stop using AI Art
10:59 - Outro

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[bizziebean]

Please watch them if you still think AI art is not stealing from artists. That we should stop complaining. Thank you.

[Plankton_menance]

Artists gave the world art and the world backstabbed them in return.

[GuitarioSpagio]

Something I find really sad and haven't really seen mentioned, is the fact that just a few years ago, you didn't have to closely inspect every artwork/picture on the internet to make sure it's real and not AI generated. Everything you saw back then was created by a person. I'm not really an artist myself, but my heart bleeds for the artists losing their livelihoods because people and especially companies can't be bothered to hire or commission them to make art. AI can be a useful tool, but this ain't it. :(

[emilyr_]

The most annoying thing is how much ai art is showing up on my Pinterest feed now. Now I have to inspect each post and check the comments before I can save it to a board 🙄

[emilyr_]

It bothers me when people “agree” with us by admitting that ai art can’t be real art because it has no emotion. That’s the least of my worries. My biggest concern is on the commercial side. These corporations only care about what’s cheap, fast, and gets them a lot of money. Of course they will gravitate towards ai art and stop hiring artists. This is something that none of the ai supporters seem to get. Ai art is starting to destroy the art industry and actually take jobs away from people who have already risked so much to make a living from their art.

I think these “ai bros” are leading the conversation way too much, and are avoiding the actual issues. And artist that are neutral saying it can be a great tool…they don’t realize how many issues have to be solved before that can happen. I like to think that traditional art may become more valuable/popular because of this, but I can’t help but think of all the digital artists that don’t have the time, space and/or money to learn and create traditional art :(

[notcornelius]

An important TLDR. I've been into the AI art rabbit hole since a year now, and after being exposed to a variety of AI art I feel sort of thankful to spot them quite fast:
- Being able to spot them at youtube thumbnails since the compositions, colors, lights and so on are very derivative of each other.
- Excessive use of detais everywhere. Not a single splash artist overly polishes every single thing in the artwork since it ruins composition.
- Cropped / botched compositions.
- Uncanny looks and proportions on humans.
- Plastic rendering everywhere from skin to grass to wood.
- Overexcessive use of hard lights rimlight.
- Nonsensical or non-existing storytelling.
- Nonsensical details ( ex. merge of clouds with hair etc )
- Tangent lines and objects.
- Fog in environments

This of course goes along with the 500 comments of how beautiful and exquisite ( my ass ) that definitely non generic looking TEMU splashart looks like.

Not talking at all about img2img ones, these are raw copyright infringement XD.

AI images imo reached their own kitsch level of wannabe artistry. They remind me of those oldschool gothic photoshop merges of wolves and stuff, even tho these were more interesting in the end.

While even these might be fixed, in the end, it always mattered that one guy would paint that 2x3m illustration afterall. Intrinsically our goes "woah, how would one human paint such a thing?". Thus, after 5 seconds into looking at an image, that intrinsic connection of "that one guy" is lost, being like "eh, it's just an AI image, everyone can do that". Nobody was praised for playing chess using a bot. And no one irl lives to crave for such praise, for that praise always would come with that intrinsic connection from others. When I look at an image, I wonder who the original authot of that image would be, since I would prefer looking at work of one training himself for years with dedication, not some google search con-artist.

YET, the only acceptable use is for thumbnailing and heavily overpainting / photobashing some secondary element of an artwork. I'm not trying not to see it's few moral and good use cases. Use cases that still help you develop your skillset as an artist. Yet even fixing these still has that AI generic look, so good luck fixing the rendering part that doesn't scream AI. If my eye can spot these, others will start doing that too.

Having ego issues and doing something exclusively for attention and status is a bad thing, both for artists and people who generate images. Generating images isn't some sort of superweapon which makes you step over someone who draws, for that is absolutely moronic.

[miramari]

I'm book cover designer. And I'm basically fuming now. I've just spent half of my day going through stock art that can be used for my work. And damn, AI art is flooding to the point I have problem with finding anything that can be used. It's just pages and pages of AI art. And only good thing is that they tend to be taged as AI generated so I can avoid them. But tbh there are people who puts AI artwork without tag and now I have to examine every, single picture for inconsistencies... I'm angry. And tired

[aderpyaxolotl]

unfortunately a good amount of ai has learned not to do the mistakes mentioned in this video. I recommend looking at the eyes of the art piece. There's ALWAYS something wrong with the eyes. Ai hasn't figured out how to get those perfect just yet.

[loonu]

As hard as it is to get your art noticed in social media now with these AI cr*p flooding the feeds of everyone it’s now near impossible for real artists to get noticed at all. I gave up posting artworks on social media entirely because of it. Thank you for shedding some light on this issue and supporting real artists. More people need to follow artists like you.

[MillywiggZ]

There’s a load of AI tracing going around.

You can never prove or disprove it since they hide it with half-tone or add some vector graphics to a bag or something as a “there, see, it’s not AI” thing. But if you look at them with a critical eye you can see the weird underwater-looking line work coming through, even if it’s a “painting”.

[ExpensivePizza]

My mother and sister are both artists. I really feel for artists at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't think people are going to stop using AI art and over time AI art is only going to keep getting better. I hope that in the future there's still wonderful artists like yourself and that art is still appreciated for how it was created and not just what it looks like.

[michaelswanger]

It's a shame to see people using ai art when you can learn to do it yourself or collaborate with a artist and get exactly what you want.

[AZ-zzkn]

Like mentioned in the video, some obvious red flags regarding AI art are the weird clothing patterns, bad hands, melted jewelry/metals, messy hair strands, mouths, eyes, patterns, backgrounds, resolutions, and small details. In the case that it is hard to tell (usually when the AI generated art has been fixed up) I like to do reverse google search to find source of the image. If you can find the artists profile, then do a background check like what their previous work looked like, their style consistency, etc. When you look at AI art long enough, you can identify a big portion of them.

[morbid.]

can we stop calling it "AI art" and call it what it actually is "AI image generation"

[mattparsons]

The worst part is where existing artists with skill start using AI to generate the bulk of their work and then fix the issues with hands, details etc. I’ve seen it on Etsy already, someone claiming to be an established artist and blatantly using AI art to produce something in a totally different style and at higher skill than their previous stuff. I swear in one of the customer review pics the artist had generated the background and then drawn the character and plopped it over the top. The lighting didn’t match at all.

[ghostly.creature]

As an artist & a graphic designer I've started seeing more and more jobs requiring AI knowledge, so I've decided to actually go and take a look at what Midjourney can do - because I can't be afraid of something, if I don't know how it works. What I noticed is that even intentional (very detailed) prompts don't always give you the result you want, even with a reference image. It often ignores half the things I write in my prompts (I was like: 'what, couldn't find an image to steal from?') or gives me stuff I didn't ask for. I've tried to create images that I can use as references for a general composition but AI doesn't even seem to understand what 'view from the top' means. I've definitely felt a little more confident after seeing all that, but it still annoys me to see AI art everywhere: the soulless, mindless crap that has no logic or intention, but just looks pretty from afar.

[waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

You nailed it when you said there's no intention in the detailing and that's the one absolute dead giveaway. Honestly, it's been pretty easy for me to tell AI art apart from human-made art, and it makes me kinda sad that we've grown accustomed to paying so little attention to intricate details that we just see something looking generally cool and that's the extent of our attention span. I feel like that's the thing that allowed the AI art scene to grow so big.

[marchthesea]

Love the video! I've been seeing AI-generated fashion on Pinterest too, it's disappointing to find out it isn't real.

[lounirs]

People feel like ai art is easy to recognize and always use the same artsyle, but it really isn't. It's gotten really good at copying artists and people are sure they can tell sk they're not careful at all

[ourabouras]

Something I’ve noticed on Pinterest specifically, if there’s a large dump of high quality/ highly detailed illustrations that are all iterations on the same theme it’s most likely AI generated instead of me having stumbled on a new great artist. And with photo-real images these’s like this level of perfection where all of the textures have the same pearlescent sheen to it. To combat AI generated images on Pinterest I mark things as Hide and designate the image as Irrelevant to me, it’s a total pain, but I’m hoping to train the site not to suggest AI images to me.