New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"

[maloki@rage.love]

@davidrevoy at least one, or some, of the comments recognised your art as the source?

[mudlark@bark.lgbt]

@davidrevoy I’m sorry you’re getting these comments. Your art is so full of heart I’ve never really thought to compare it to aigen. I don’t see how people see any similarities to be honest.

I love your art, the way you draw fantasy worlds and characters is a big inspiration to me. And it’s so cool to see that you do it all with Krita, it makes me want to give it a go and finally make that switch.

[didier@famille.c-f.me]

@davidrevoy It's a little your fault, your powered robots when it's forbidden .. 🤪

I very like this drawing. 🤩

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article41/electron-donor

[krono@toot.berlin]

@davidrevoy Bleak, actually.

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@faoluin Yes, that's what I'm trying to do. Thank you. But on bad evenings, you know... It's tempting to allow some of my self-destructive thoughts to be confirmed by these, and reading them all became hypnotising. I'll try to develop a thicker skin. Maybe that's just the negative side of attracting a larger audience for my work.

[realtegan@wandering.shop]

@davidrevoy @gaditb
It's happening to lots of writers. Some forums are nothing but people claiming they put writing through an "AI detector" and the writing is obviously AI. It's soul-crushing, as you well know.

The other major group of people getting hit by this, ironically, are computer programmers. People who actually know how to code are being told their code is AI generated even when it's absolutely obvious it's not.

Anyone who creates is damaged by AI - even if they don't use it.

[cosmix@mastodon.art]

@davidrevoy gods that's rough. Putting all that work and time and love and effort into a thing to just get clocked by the copycat that your the copycat. Its honestly disgusting. And not sure if this is intentional brainwashing.

[farlukar@mas.to]

@davidrevoy If I had to guess, those are all “it looks like the ai art I've been prompting myself”

[nyandzette@piaille.fr]

@davidrevoy J'espère que tu reçois aussi des tonnes de messages positifs qui apprécient tes dessins à leur juste valeur.
Je saurais même plus dire depuis combien de temps je te suis ! Je me souvient qu'il y a plus de 10(?) ans, je m'étais mise à Krita parce que c'est ce que tu utilisais et j'avais avidement téléchargé plein de ressources que tu proposais ! Que ce soit tes dessins eux-même ou tes outils de création, tout est associé à mes débuts avec ma première tablette graphique dans mes souvenirs... et encore maintenant

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@davidrevoy @gabrielesvelto As a fellow artist who stopped practicing professionally a few years before this AI shitstorm hit the field, I'm so sorry. This is horrifying.

Artists have always been incredibly undervalued by modern society, but this is a new low. I weep for all my artist friends, and for all the damage this exploitative technology is doing to our world.

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@feff Thank you Feff.

[freezr@friendica.myportal.social]

@davidrevoy

You are assuming these comments come from humans and users are real people.

AI generator content spammers have all the interest on creating FUD and hijacking true people toward fake profiles with fake arts to funneling traffic on their websites.

You are a known artist, if this continue you might be under a fake-users-farm attack

[benjaminklein@mastodon.nu]

@davidrevoy I'm sure all of these are bots, keep making your art and try read only the comments from intelligent humans.

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@jeeynet Je crois toujours que c'est un danger de penser à une "intention mauvaise" qui nécessiterai tout plein d'effort à l'encontre de ma petite personne, comme celle de lâcher des Bot spécialement pour commenter sous mes posts ou ce genre de déploiements couteux et chronophage , quand tout simplement l'ignorance et la stupidité peuvent aussi être une réponse pertinente au phénomène que j'observe.
Mais merci de poser la question. En tout cas, si c'était le cas, j'en serai le premier étonné.

[odysseuslibre@pouet.chapril.org]

@davidrevoy

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@davidrevoy Not trying to put it all on you. ^.^ Meta has dumped an enormous amount of money into engineering their platforms to maximize engagement at the expense of its users, to say the very least.

Your artwork is wonderful and you should feel proud of it.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@davidrevoy
I never at all suspected you of being or using AI.

[imperio@toot.cat]

@davidrevoy @arabine Et des gens (dont moi) t'ont vu en vrai. =D

[jeeynet@framapiaf.org]

@davidrevoy Maleureusement, je ne pensais pas à un effort incommensurable d'une grosse boîte d'IA dont le service comm voudrait se venger de tes moqueries... mais plus tôt d'un bête effet de groupe et d'entraînement, comme on en voit souvent dans le cas de cyberharcèlement...

Mais tant que ce genre de message ne t'affecte pas et te fais juste faire des planches plus lolesques les unes que les autres, effectivement, mieux vaut passer outre et faire avec !

Merci en tout cas pour ton boulot !

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@conchoid Maybe. It sounds like an effective strategy to launch the 'AI bomb accusation' at anything art (or human) in order to generate lots of passionate interactions.
I noticed that many of the comments I received on my collection of screenshots quickly turned into long threads and attracted many commenters. Trolls love that.