What up everybody! You probably saw my posts were all gone, well it appears our oppressive, AI hating, ignorant, uneducated, art gatekeeping overlords of Inkbunny have banned me cause i used artists names in one of my photos.
Yeah, i admit it. I used the tool how it was designed to be used and had a combination of 8 different artists listed in one of my photos. No one from the staff gave me warning, asked me to remove the piece, gave me any means to rectify the situation, just straight banned for a singular photo, and taking another users accusation at face value because i deleted their comment, but i never posted any artists for that photo, i just got sick of that users constant bitching and bullying about AI.
I initially left them in there so that other hopeful AI artists could better learn how to use the technology, so that we could have a collaborative and growing community sharing how to better ourselves with this new tech, and mostly cause i didnt notice that stupid fucking rule in the list of rules. And you know what? Im not sorry one bit about it.
I had faced enough stupidity, hatred, bigotry, and ignorance from the bullying community of Inkbunny and their baseless hatred of AI and its "stealing" that i just removed it so those pieces of shit like KammyKay could mind their own business and keep their hatred to themselves. It amazes me that they get to be so shitty, judgemental, self righteous, and hateful, yet i get banned for making art for personal reasons, not stealing anything, and not monetizing anything. That one user alone spearheaded a campaign to eliminate as many AI users as possible and has single handedly filed over 100 different complaints against different people.
The stupidity of AI art is so pervasive it BLOWS MY MIND. So heres a quick lesson on how AI training ACTUALLY work.
1. Most major AI base models were trained on photos scraped from public domains.
2. This is a legally protected activity as long as they are publicly accessible domains.
3. In order for it to be "stealing" legally, you have to have your work copywritten, which is a specific process, and it has to be an individual and specific image. If it is not copywritten, then you have little to no legal grounds to claim theft.
4. AI art trainings do NOT, in ANY way, keep a library of photos. It does not make frankenstein images of stolen photos.
5. It is a statistical impossibility to recreate an exact singular photo from a raw generation, which only singular photos can be copywritten.
6. When scanning a photo, it creates conceptualizations of the objects and artistic styles contained within the photo, creates a transitive photo to make sure it understands the concepts its scanned, and then discards the photo. It does NOT in any way keep the original photo at all.
7. Since it creates conceptualizations of photos and does NOT take 1 for 1 copies of photos, ALL GENERATED CONTENT IS TRANSFORMATIVE, meaning its in no way stolen.
8. Artistic styles, including artists specific styles, are NOT copywriteable. Only individualistic pieces and photos are copywriteable.
AI art training is no different in its observations and data than someone staring at an art piece analytically to determine its composition to understand how it was made and the subjects contained within.
Its not stealing, publicly accessible content is legal to scan for trainings, it doesnt make copies of peoples photos, art styles cant be claimed as unique, and most of all, i didnt actually do anything wrong.
This website has drawn a clear and defined line in the sand where its supposed morals and ethics end for their ideas of "artistic freedom" and its at the feet of AI art.
Their integrity in this regard is the most hypocritical thing ive ever seen. They literally say in their highest code and mission statement of their Inkbunny philosophy that they value "artistic freedom" and that users "shouldnt worry so much about piracy."
These two values now mean nothing in the face of AI art generation because of their nyriad of oppressive restrictions about what can or cannot be done or is or is not allowed to be used and in what way. They tell you to not worry about piracy, a rule that was created BEFORE AI art, but some random user making personal art for personal reasons without monetization is BAN WORTHY?
They claim to "take great pride in their professionalism and conduct" yet aggressively make known their hatred for AI art generation, as well as CLEARLY havent even taken the time to research how this new technology and art medium works, and have vehemently violated their core values based on bias and ignorance.
But sure, they get to violate their highest rules cause they have the power. They get to be liars and hypocrites because no one can hold them accountable.
So fuck this website, fuck this account, fuck the hateful community, fuck your hypocritical power trips and your flimsy values, fuck your "artistic freedom" and your oppressive gatekeeping, fuck your intellectual laziness, fuck your desire to make rules against AI art without even understanding the technology, and fuck your self-righteous hypocrisy.
I refuse to play kiss ass and pattycake with people who demand subservience and control, ESPECIALLY liars who pretend to uphold moral values, but only when it suits them.
If their oppressive rules werent bad enough already, they plan on having mods to start using AI models based on peoples prompts to make sure theyre 100% accurate. They want to inspect photo metadata to make sure it contains prompt information. They want to investigate Loras and checkpoint models to see what data was used to train it. Does any of this gestapo shit sound like "artistic freedom" at all?
I have never seen such wild fucking nazi shit before, for simply wanting to make some colors appear on a screen and show it off?! The insanity of these people, the weird , psycho, ignorant, and uneducated.
I LOVED that i finally had a means to create art in my life, and i was GOOD at it. Now i fucking hate it and havent touched it in weeks because of all the hate here and everywhere else about it. Its a literal intellectual warzone, spearheaded by ignorance and impulsive belief formation without education whatsoever. The spirit of artistic expression and a whole new realm of budding artists is SERIOUSLY under threat by facist assholes. You are doing WAY more damage than what you even THINK AI is doing by "stealing" which it is NOT.
So thanks Inkbunny, youve turned love for art into a hatred of it, you have shown your ignorant and oppressive intentions, you have compromised the values of the founder and his principles of this site, and you only plan on getting worse.
