R.S. Riekkinen @artvaris.bsky.social

If you commission art, please refrain from using genAI to generate ref images. Because at the end of the day, any usage of exploitative AI directly supports the plagiaristic AI companies and their exploitation/theft of creative labor. There are so many ethical options you can use to create refs.

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Jaskier 🪷 Team Seafoam 🪷 @lotusbunni.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

Collages work best. I think photo bashing and Frankensteining images together for a ref is much better than using A¡

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R.S. Riekkinen @artvaris.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 08:34 UTC

Some alternative resources for creating character refs: Hero Forge (free) Picrew character creators (free) Dress-up & doll maker games (free) Photos, photo collages & mood boards (free) Self-drawn doodles (free) RPG character creators (Dragon's Dogma 2, BG3 etc) Character image packs by creatives

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Aspen @aspentangle.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

A client was like "my friend put the stickers you made me into AI generator and this is what came out" and I wanted to fucking scream. I just said that sucks and ai sucks.

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Masked.DedRoll_ @dedroll.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 08:54 UTC

Hell, i'll take my client squibly stick man drawing that explain nothing instead of Gen AI image as reference

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 06:59 UTC

Ms paint carnage works with every artist I buy from.

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 07:01 UTC

Wow people are doing this? I guess their hearts in the right place just misled?

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340ml vodka shot @slime.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:20 UTC

this is honestly one of the best use cases for stable diffusion and you're saying people shouldn't use it because plagiarism? it's a tool that makes everyone's job easier, and there is even img2img so a stick figure can have all the details. it offloads work onto a robot and the one commissioning

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👁👁👁Nasty[REDACTED] 18+👁👁👁 @nastyredacted.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:31 UTC

i put handmade stick figure references into a folder with love. AI generates shit just goes straight to the trash

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DaniZAR - Comic-Book Artist @danizar.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 08:18 UTC

Totally agree with this!

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