Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They)

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Perspective

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

To put it another way, the reason why AI isn't as opposed in Japan is because artists in Japan have the infrastructure and support they need to make sure they won't be made obsolete, at least those who don't work for exploitative media companies

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:49 UTC

Independent artists in Japan can sell merch and comics at just regular physical stores. Western stores aren't as willing to support that, especially when the work is NSFW, and consumers really see it as greedy for artists to restrict access to any of their work except as like an early Patreon perk

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

And none of this makes it okay to skirt by on paying Western artists anyways. Western artists can't easily switch over to the Japanese model. In Japan, selling Dojins is its own industry that mainstream companies aren't as hesitant to work with

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:40 UTC

This doesn't make it okay when anime studios replace their artists with AI. Unlike independent artists in Japan, professional animators rely on that work for income. They are willing to put up with abysmal working conditions and bad pay for it and don't deserve to be fucked over more than they have

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:34 UTC

Japanese artists do not rely on commissions and use them more as paid requests that they often turn down. They rely a lot more on sales of comics and sometimes individually pay walled art pieces. Western artists however do primarily rely on commissions

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:31 UTC

There's also a discussion to be had about why Japanese artists are comparatively more okay with generative AI than western artists, which is to say because the main source of income for the former cannot be replaced easily with AI, unlike the latter

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

It should also not be used to bypass paying artists for commissions in general. Use it as a placeholder for a roleplay site or something. Don't use it as though it's an image you earned and now own

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Braster the Ancom Yak (He/They) @brasteryakintosh.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 21:19 UTC

No. Sure, there are some people who just hate generative AI in every way. Some like me think it has the potential to be useful and good. But it must be opposed for any commercial purpose, at least until companies stop trying to use it to replace real human artists

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