DefendingAIArt is a subreddit run by mod "Trippy-Worlds," who also runs the debate sister subreddit AIWars. Some poking around made clear that AIWars is perfectly fine with having overt Nazis around, for example a guy with heil hitler in his name who accuses others of lying because they are "spiritually jewish." So we're off to a great start.
the first thing that drew my eye was this post from a would be employer:
not really clear what the title means, but this person seems to have had a string of encounters with the most based artists of all time.
also claims to have been called "racial and gender slurs" for using ai art and that he was "kicked out of 20 groups" and some other things. idk what to tell this guy, it legitimately does suck that wealthy people have the money to pay for lots of art and the rest of us don't
I really enjoyed browsing around this subreddit, and a big part of that was seeing how much the stigma around AI gets to people who want to use it. pouring contempt on this stuff is good for the world
the above guy would like to know what combination of buttons to press to counter the "that just sounds like stealing from artists" attack. a commenter leaps in to help and immediately impales himself:
you hate to see it. another commenter points out that well ... maybe these people just aren't your friends
to close out, an example of fearmongering:
The guy going full abuser logic after being refused to buy some art of somebody. Jesus. (And like the artist doesn't know you already tried to use their name, and are only coming for them with money afterwards).
E: looking at the post on reddit, turns out they already did something like this "Yesterday I got told to off myself after someone saw filenames over a screen share while I was working out a job for UI assets.". Typical. (Still, death threats are not cool, even if he really should look for a different hobby (Which I assume they are lying about anyway, coder art is no problem if it is just a hobby, and there are a large amount of free imagesets out there, famously like kenney who has free art sets because of community donations).