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I've removed a couple of posts this morning which, on inspection, proved to be AI generated - an AI response, in fact, to an AI post: they're talking to themselves now - when I do that, they call me senile.
If you wonder but aren't sure about some of these posts, report them anyway: clues are - posts that read grammatically without actually saying anything; responses to very old posts; obviously, posts with hidden links, though these fall into the spamming category; "new member" posts from people who have no work on the site. None of these are foolproof indicators: it's quite possible that a new member will comment on the forum without yet having the confidence to post their work in the Gallery - but they're suggestive of AI, and we can then inspect them. The really obvious ones are those which say something that makes you ask "why on earth did you say that?": even then, you can't be sure ... but reports don't need to be sure, they just need to bring things to our attention; so don't hesitate.
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I've been busy this week, with gasmen relaying gas pipes and an awful lot of news from abroad.
One thing I need to discover more about, is our government's potential concession to allow AI developers to use creative materials without license. Might have been part of a tariff deal...hopefully not.
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The government's love affair with AI needs, so far as copyrighted material is concerned, to be nipped in the bud. Whatever benefits AI might offer, it can do it without stealing our work; from Elton John downwards, or upwards, creative people are insisting that an opt-out is not good enough - government doesn't want to change it to opt-in, because - of course - no one would. But that's their problem: we shouldn't let them make it ours.
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You have made me think of several months ago, when a couple of "Artists" started passing image after image as their own. Robert, I think you busted the first guy. The second had the nerve to agree with me in my rejection of such images by the first. I privately wrote to him, and about 2 weeks later, he stopped posting, and, I think, removed his works. Robert, do you remember any of this!.
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Skylar I think most of moderators on this site remove any posts that are clearly AI , if I doubt we discuss it between us.
I have removed quite a lot in the last few months, sone I wasn’t a hundred percent sure about but removed then anyway , if it’s a real person they can question the reason and have it reinstated by the editors , so far no one has complained.
I take that as meaning that I was most likely correct in my assumption that it was AI .
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Skylar - just saw this. I don't remember the specific case, because over several weeks I've removed quite a few AI posts, and they tend to melt into each other. As Paul says, we do discuss between us anything that is suspicious but not transparent. It's very difficult at times to be sure that a post is AI, and in the last few days we've had a case of a genuine post that was phrased in such a way as to set all the alarm bells ringing; but it turned out the poster was indeed a student, seeking answers to questions about AI; and I daresay I upset him a bit by being quite aggressively suspicious - but while I'm sorry if he was upset, he did express himself with a degree of circumlocution; not quite to the point of meaninglessness, but not so very far from it, either. And that's often a good indication of AI generated text. Inevitably, we'll get it wrong sometimes - but the alternative is to leave a lot of nonsense clogging the site, so: I fear he got caught in the cross-fire..
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I remember showing those images to my family. I said to them that even tho I have painted almost all of my life (I did my first painting when I was 5), I would need another lifetime to get to that level. At that point, I decided it had to be AI. Dont get me wrong, I wasn't bragging about my own skills, but I have made a good living from my art, so far.
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Skylar, I’m not a digital artist as you Know but even I can tell the difference between AI and digital work .
While your style of work I’d different using paint and brushes it still has marks within it that are unique to you , and because of that I see it as artistic in the sense that it was painted by a person, AI misses that touch and is just far to perfect. It’s like looking at a photo of a beautiful person and thinking their skin is so perfect not a slight blemish anywhere, but we know it’s touch up to get that perfect look.
I enjoy a lot of your work and that of several others and admire your skills , I just hope people don’t confuse the two as that would be very unfortunate for digital artists.
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