Normalize not using AI detectors on others' artwork ffs
What it says on the tin. I'm finding so many folks, throughout Reddit and elsewhere, uploading genuine artists' works to AI detection sites that are AI generative sites themselves.
Like, these people are literally feeding the beast, uploading work without consent, and trying to act high and mighty about it.
If (general) you have doubts about an artists' work, use your brain. Look at their history and body of work— have they been posting similar work over multiple years? Has their work improved on a realistic timetable, or just gone from intermediate to godly-professional in under a month?
Do they have WIPs they can share, that logically follow an artist's workflow?
Are they owning up to using references (good!) and talking about their process (amazing!) or being sketchy and evasive?
Do they have the language to describe any piece of the artistic process at all? As in, do they even know wtf they're doing?
Seriously, there are better ways to sleuth out AI, friends.
Don't upload art to a detector. Sure, you might be returning trash to the garbage bin, but you might also be feeding an innocent artist's work to the LLM, helping it hurt far more artists in the process.
As for me, I use Procreate, and enjoy talking about the brushes I use in my works, as well as my references and where my inspiration comes from.
Which is also a rant I have (normalize knowledge sharing!), but I find it immediately curbs accusations and suspicions by a ton, if you're a legit artist who struggles with receiving unfounded accusations. Stop playing coy, be open about your process.