#ai generated art is a scam

[onedivinemisfit]

Nothing like techbros on twitter thinking they have any clue how the artist communities function in their ridiculous attempts to defend AI art. Artists being inspired by eachother is NOT THE GOTCHA YOU THINK IT IS. IT’S JUST YOU ADMITTING YOU HAVE NO ART FRIENDS. SUCKS TO SUCK I GUESS

#text post #rant #anti ai art #you know what #i’m done #ai generated art is a scam #just like nfts are a scam #just like everything that comes from corporate teat-sucking dudebros developing any tech #IS A SCAM #if that makes me anti technologu #SO BE IT #like the same assholes who hail ai art #will drag me for drawing on a digital canvas so #I CAN NEVER WIN ANYWAY #BUT I WILL FIGHT YOU TILL THE LAST #IF IT’S THE ONLY THING I CAN DO

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

#ai #anti ai #wotc #wacom #ai scam #ai scammers #yall warn the less intuitive people in your life about the voice scam stuff… scary af! #ai art #ai generated #ai image #ai artwork #aiartcommunity

[sixthrock]

the Fun Gang visits the Willy Wonka Experience ™️

#deltarune #spamton #kris deltarune #susie deltarune #ralsei #jevil #gaster #PLEASE i HAD to do this while this whole debacle is still Relevant #because an ai generated willy wonka themed scam #is the MOST spamton thing. EVER. #my art #long post

[wensdaiambrose]

Ok it's that time again for me to say that AI is used by scammers on social media.

Can you point out what is wrong with these ai images?

Cause your grandma on Facebook can't.

Notice the repeated text?

The similar themes?

The lack of hands in every "first cake" photo?

Yes, a lot of the likes and comments are from other spam or scam accounts, but not all of them.

Teach the people in your life how to spot AI art and how to spot scammer and spam accounts.

#scammer #scammers #online scams #scams #scam alert #ai art #ai generated #ai artwork #ai girl #ai image #ai food #fuck ai art #fuck ai everything #fuck ai writing #fuck ai #online #facebook #facebook scam

[ladsofsorrow24]

one of the... weirdly good thing about AI art invading the illustration field is that now, whenever i look at art that doesn't cater to my weird fucking taste, i'm able to appreciate the efforts and creativity that are put into making the artist's own personal vision come to life

#i don't like talking about this whole shit because its fucking tiring #but damn if there's one good thing about AI art to me as an artist myself #its that it makes me appreciate other artists despite our difference in taste or aesthetic #because... dude drawing is hard #no matter what handicapped you got #me personally? i'm struggling a lot with my arms and chest pain lately #add into the whole general anxiety shit and my motivation to draw goes haywire #yet... when i actually able to draw... refine parts of the art i'm currently working on #it makes me realized how much i enjoyed doing this #and the thought that other artists who i admired also able to experience this joy too #idk i feel some sort of camaraderie with them #so yeah i think people should try to learn how to draw than steal other people's art just to scam others #tmi tag

[bragganhyl]

I'm going to start posting my art with captions like this

#hablaty #yeah i got a shitty blazed post with artwork that looked clearly ai generated from a blog that looked like a scam bot so yeah #but i'm crying here wtf #and i feel like i need to clarify that yes OP was talking about what they claimed to be their own art like this #not reviewing and trying to sell someone else's so like yeah

[strawberryoverlord]

love how deviantart implements a label system so normal people can opt out of seeing machine generated art and shit head "adopt makers" still dont label their shit

#i opted out of seeing anything labeled as ai art #and im STILL seeing ai generated adoptables theyre trying to scam people with

[dalle2]

"A Photo of a Mexican lady yelling at a cashier in a store for scamming her, camera tilted, photorealistic"

A Photo of a Mexican lady yelling at a cashier in a store for scamming her, camera tilted, photorealistic

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#scamming #scammer #mexican woman #cashier #dalle #dalle2 #dall-e #dall e #ai artwork #ai art #aiart #digital art #generative ai #generative art #generated artwork #digital painting #dall e ai #dalle mini #dallemini #ai image #ai generated images #ai generated art #ai generated #art

[jsuika]

Okay listen, whenever it comes to asking questions, I really am NOT looking for any commissions yet nor do I accept any clickbaits in my inbox. PLEASE, this is for asking questions not rarely an emergency or anything related no, I do NOT offer commissions until I have my own savings account for GOOD goddamnit. 😭

If you or yourself are shy, I will understand and I'm still here if anyone is curious about my OCs or anything with my artstyle. Literally you can ask me anytime no matter what! I just wanted some questioners, not just "I like to keep clickbaits as a secret 😈". I swear, even if I'm still not yet commissioning others and/or don't have my own currency, I'm not eventually that much SAFE from any other bot scammers that always BAIT everywhere to convince and attract them.

Literally that's the thing that I am always desperate about but whatever your opinions are on this, please don't attack me for this self-reasoning. All I wanted to do was to post one of my artworks and also fanarts too HOWEVER, yes almost some here want to commission me to draw for them. I'm okay with art trade it's just that I don't accept art request at all sadly :( this was the time that I had to stop doing it. Reason was that it could be against the art rules and probably might depend on the others.

#asks open #oh yea and also when I said clickbaits #as in to secretly scam just by automatically persuade them #literally out of no where #and I'm generally so pissed about these bots rn #I don't hate Tumblr as much as I don't fall for any clickbaits nor anything unrelated #and any other art-related stuff that it EASILY makes us fall #but not just all #clearly I've seen artists who have been avoiding #which is GOOD man #also fuck AI artists #literally their fault for stealing arts and making them to a random shit generator #All thanks to ArtStation for it I'm very aware about it #also any of you who are in other art portfolios or websites #y'all make sure there is NoAI on it #but it might depend on the bots #aaaaand yeah tl;dr along side with the tags lmao

[zipper-neck]

This guy bought an expensive set of PDF books that turned out to be AI generated and plagiarized from Andrew Loomis books. Aside from the art, things to look out for are 1) no credit given to any artists in the book, 2) it seems like a red flag if it's PDF only and no physical copies exist but like I guess it's not impossible to print fake books, I just think the scammers are way less likely to do that if their goal is to put as little effort into it as possible. Maybe if too many people catch on to the prevalence of generated PDF books, the scammers will adapt.

Anyways we gotta be real careful about recently-published books now of any type, you never know what's legit just from face-value impressions anymore

#scam #drawing #art #books #ai generated #video #Youtube

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

#long post #Willy Wonka #Wonka #Willy Wonka Experience #Willy Wonka Experience disaster #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Willys Chocolate Experience #THE UNKNOWN #Wish.com Oompa Loompa #House of Illuminati #AI #ai generated

[8pxl]

PSA 🗣️ another scammer using genAI without disclosing it

pixlgirl has been posting generated AI (targeting fandoms) without disclosing it, passing it off as their genuine art and has apparently scammed at least one person into ‘commissioning’ them. this is a public PSA so yall can block them, and not interact. please do not harass them!

it’s incredibly shitty to be disingenuous while posting AI but even shittier to scam people with it 🤢 stay diligent yall

#i hate making ‘call out’ posts but kinda feel obligated since so many people have trouble spotting it #pixel art #pixelart #anti ai #i’ve been seeing them in the tags for a few weeks but saw they’re now scamming people so i thought id make a post #the animations they’ve posted are just filters on the AI lol #please don’t harass them #this is for those who don’t want to interact with AI #genAI #fuck genai #fuck ai #fuck ai art #zelda #pixel aesthetic #text post #these types of losers always just block me lol #art drama #drama #artist on tumblr

[poetic-hallucinations]

Daria is art and art is life

The NFT community and the like will probably start to realise the non value and memeable self perceived worth of NFTokens, when ai can just make any image it wants. lol what a beautiful self imploding system NFT’s are, it’ll be a spectacle to watch🫣

#daria #daria mtv #starryai #ai art generator #ai art #ai artwork #nft scam #Spotify

[wensdaiambrose]

AI is being used by scammers.

This is a huge problem on Facebook.

#ai girl #ai image #ai artwork #ai generated #ai art #ai is theft #ai is not art #ai is stupid #ai issues #ai is a plague #fuck ai art #fuck ai everything #fuck ai bros #online scams #scammer #scams #scammers

[studentofetherium]

claiming AI art is theft takes the database and training issue and blows them up to be the entire debate, which is just a terrible way of talking about this issue. it elevates non-solutions like the filters that supposedly ruin datasets (not how that works btw) as "praxis" and demands that all AI art be decried

the actual issue with AI art will never be in subculture or fandom, because those communities have their social contracts which will keep AI art from becoming pervasive— simply said, if you don't AI art, you're not going to promote it, so it's not going to become something significant in your circle, especially when others agree with your stance

the issue is on a corporate scale. grifters are already using AI image generation for scams, but there's always going to be grifters and scams. the kind of person being most hurt by AI image generation are corporate artists. the kind of people AI art will put out of works aren't artists working for commission on twitter, it's artists working on commission for news websites, or the people who make the backgrounds for press releases, or incidental images that people don't really think about. there's a whole lot of "art" that people don't think about, and that's what is most vulnerable because it's considered the most disposable

[darantha]

How to Spot AI images (Hopefully)

So, I did see GailyNovelry's excellent post on this (Link here), but saw that there also were some confusion and they were using a environment image as their example, so I thought I'd do a breakdown that was more character centric.

The key thing with AI images is that the program does not know what it is making. And, arguably, they thrive on that we are currently conditioned to not really look at things for too long before we hit that engagement button and/or just scroll onwards to whatever next the algorithm feeds us.

It's hard to fight that urge, I know, but if you just pause and look, you'll soon start spotting things that just do not make sense, and I don't just mean that the pretty booby elven fighter is sporting seven fingers on one hand. Those are the obvious things. I'll try to cover the general sort of artefacts that tend to tip me off to the fact that a image is generated rather than actually hand-made by someone making informed design decisions as opposed to trust what amounts to RNG. I think this is important as there's those who do not tag their images as AI generated, and try to scam people with commissions.

And, as the saying goes... The devil is in the details.

To start with I picked this image from deviantuser CeiEllem. At first glance, it looks... very impressive. Sharp looking elf lady with killer hair. 10/10 wish I could rock that haircolour.

But, it is AI generated. Aside from the general tell that is this hyper rendered, near photorealistic style that AI images often have, there's a lot of details that tips it off to just not having been made by a human who actually made the decisions.

Since AI is just working off patterns and not actual decisions, things like hair is a immediate giveaway that you're looking at a AI image.

(Deviantart users: daralyth, DavidZarn and lunayokai)

In all these three images you can see just how hair whisps off into weird nonsense shapes or even meld into the background or clothing. Because, again, the AI doesn't know what its doing, just working with shapes. Similarly, background elements that just stop and start randomly is a dead giveaway, like the tail in the first image.

As I've said, details is the key to spotting these images, and another giveaway is the sheer density of details that is just noise.

This is from users Rigtorok7, and the details are so noisy, absolutely miniscule in scale, and hypersharp, yet have no actual design to them. Artists imply details all the time. We don't render out every single nook and crevice, and since we actually know what we want the viewer to look at, we'll pull back and simplify things so you don't want to look at the big chunk of very noisy hair ornament or necklace instead of the face of the character.

For comparison, this is how it looks when I, personally, indulge in doing 'overdetailing' of something (because I am forever weak for painting jewelry).

BUT I want to stress that the key here isn't that detailing equals AI generated. The key is the lack of design choices IN the details. There's a lot of artists out there, and someone painting out all those nooks and crannies in something doesn't mean they are a AI user. This painting by Leighton is super detailed but you see the intent with all the details. You have a focus with the people in the boat and secondary read of the figure in the door, where the details are a lot more implied and less sharp.

AI can't do that, because AI isn't making any decisions.

I couldn't find any good example once I went looking, but if you're into fantasy art: look for people just holding weird 'swords'.

AI is rapidly evolving, so who knows how much this'll help in 3 months, but for now, this is how I spot things.

But, in the end, the biggest giveaway that someone is using an AI generator is that they've filled up page after page on deviantart/artstation/wherever in the past like... six to nine months, and often swing between wildly different styles. If you're unsure, look up the source of a image. Another clue can be generic 'untitled' or just 'elf lady' sort of titles, since someone uploading 30 images a week isn't going to make unique titles for each image.

Also, commissioners. ... you should ALWAYS get a sketch and progress image from a artist that you hire. My art directors would have my head on a plate if I didn't send them a rough sketch and progress shot before finalising the image.

#go forth #be free PSA post