Midsea

Independent digital artist, designer & illustrator. Looking for remote 2D work. other links

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

https://t.co/5TLo93NVqq new celestial and nature-themed merch available in my store!

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

@hellopotoh Best version ever!

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

To put this into perspective, when I attended art school, it was roughly $2.5-3k in tuition per 15 week class.

That means this AI course, tuition wise for 3 weeks, is almost exactly equal in cost for real, actual drawing and painting classes at a GOOD, accredited art school.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

I just got fed this ad in the wild on Facebook. The audacity in charging $500 to learn AI like Midjourney, something that, at worst, should take a couple of hours from looking at documentation or free resources.

These people don't only exploit artists, they exploit each other.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

how i started"
pencil-20p
paper- £7 for a cheap but good sketch book
art tutorials-free ones on the internet

now
procreate:£20 one off
ipencil: £80 one off

yet they claim we are the "rich privileged" ones🤔...lol wtf,
i'm facing homelessness for the 3rd time in my life🫠.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

@TheGlazeProject @ZakugaMignon @casey02kelly Omg can’t wait!!!!!!!! 😭

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

The delusion of AI artists. They joke about us losing our jobs, as if they'll somehow be stepping in and making the money real artists have lost.

A prompter can only get so far with words, LoRAs, and control nets. Lack of skill, knowledge, and fundamentals will catch up to you.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

@Rahll They think they have skills we don't. No,we could come up with prompts they can never,fix&turn it into anything. But we know ai is going to kill/worsen ALL creative RELATED livings & make the industry even more of a stale exploitative nightmare! thats why we rebel against ai.

[Jon Lam #CreateDontScrape @JonLamArt]

Interesting to watch. A Game dev starts off using some GenAi assets, but then goes back to Artists to hand craft assets after realizing that Gen Ai uses hundreds of thousands of works scraped from the internet.

sidenote: Thanks to @valvesoftware

https://t.co/g61OqlZ7bu

[AaranTheArtist @AaranTheArtist]

Delete the datasets.

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

It’s disgusting that a tech that is uniquely fueled by the theft of hundreds of thousands of artists, is so invasive and hell bent in occupying all of our spaces, that it’s stripping away people’s desire to live. Every single country needs to protect prople from this, NOW.

[Benjamin (leaving for 🦋@benjami.no) @stealcase]

I find it poetic that one of the BIGGEST & most important lawsuits about AI in the next 5 years is NOT allowed to be recorded, even though it's publicly accessible.

It's almost as if things can be put into the public sphere & still have terms & conditions. 😅
#CreateDontScrape

[AaranTheArtist @AaranTheArtist]

After 10 years learning the craft, I achieved my dream job, working as a character designer for commission. AI is about to completely destroy the commission industry, so that’s that. Seriously considering closing commissions permanently going forward. Modern society is awful.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

It should be illegal to not state something was made with ai. Ai means it's quick, cheap, stolen shit; If they use ai to make their product then they don't care about the product, they'll put as little effort into all of it as they can,cause they just want your money.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

so I've been working on a colouring book for over a year i'm getting close to publishing but it's depressing seeing how flooded the market is with ai generated colouring books. all shitty made, all got tones of books published just this year... this isn't progress.

[MystWolven @MystWolven]

I am considering paywalling my own art but, remember. @TheGlazeProject also exists.
There's something really satisfying about leechware trying to scrape and train on a thing and getting the wrong thing instead. We do have some protection.
I urge everyone that can to use it.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

@StyleHelen1 @Joannechocolat @guse_guse You missed the point

[Indie Book Spotlight @BookSpotlight]

I find it incredibly maddening that this author is making a big deal about not using AI to write but sees no issue using the stolen 'art' for her covers.

Like it's the same thing and it's stealing however you phrase it.

This is such hypocrisy.

Stop.

[Midsea @MidseaMidsea]

Thinking about doing a video on why it’s so obvious these ai so clearly aren’t “learning to draw like a human would” .....at the same time i don’t think have the time or engery.😭

[Jon Lam #CreateDontScrape @JonLamArt]

Generative Ai has shown us who our real allies in life and work are, and who would shovel us into the fire at a moment’s notice if meant self preservation or brownie points. All of us see you and are making mental notes.

#CreateDontScrape