Artists, we're being too kind by calling it "art." We should start calling it AI Imagery honestly

I think AI art is worrying, not in a "Oh no we're being replaced" way, but in a "Oh no corporations think this is good" way

Not gonna lie, I miss early AI art that was just SO weird and unmistakably computer-generated that it was surreal.

The best AI image I’ve ever seen was that picture with the prompt: “Salmon in a river” and it was literal sushi salmon meat floating in water

I feel like making your OC on Gacha Life would be more honorable than making it on an AI.

Corporations: "No, we must have international copyright law to protect small creators from exploitation. Your free Pokemon fangame is stealing other people's work!" Also Corporations: "Let's steal every single work of art ever drawn by a human at the same time to create a for-profit system deliberately designed to harm those same artists' businesses!"

When the art parodying AI "art" is more visually captivating than the supposed super detailed pieces it's parodying, you know it's bad lmao.

Hi lavender! I'm a Spanish illustrator and sadly here, even our government uses AI to do health campaigns, posters to promote the usage of public transport and even anti-bullying ads (very ironic considering that there was already a case of teenagers using AI to deepfake female classmates into hardcore p*rn). My boyfriend that works in the videogame industry was asked to use midjourney to generate portraits (he profusely refused and did them instead) but in the sound department they used some AI voice acting. I hope that AI will be regulated, too much harm can be done in the community.

Fun fact! AI “art” has started to use ai generated “art” to generate more so we’re getting the habsburg chin of “art”

I loved when ai art sucked ass, because the strange and nonsensical nature of it was fantastic for giving me inspiration and ideas and color pallets. Now it's too good, it doesn't just give me something to build off of, it tries to _do_ it for me- and badly. It's becoming less and less useful to me the better it gets.

I got DeviantArt just before the AI epidemic. It was really cool seeing all the cool art and sharing my own. But now, I scroll my feed and almost ALL of it is AI and it's so depressing honestly. I shouldn't be getting excited to see real person art on a website that was originally just for real people to share their art.

It’s actually quite sad. Ai art has been ripping creativity out of artist’s hands. It’s a shame honestly, and Ai doesn’t deserve to call it “theirs” Edit: yeah I can see how it”s not ripping creativity out of artist’s hands, but I have seen some Ai art that’d copying artists’ creative ideas, and I just think it’s a shame

The thing that really corns my flakes about ai “art” are the fans of it claiming that it makes art “accessible to everyone”. Literally anyone that can use a pencil or a computer mouse can learn to draw. I could pick up a pen right now and put it onto paper and draw a thing. Anyone can make art, and everyone has made art since there were people to make it.

I've seen ai "art" sort of get harder to actually spot as ai, which makes me worried for other artist because 100% real artist will be mistaken for ai "art". I've even seen adoptables of ai and almost thought it was legit

What infuriates me about AI art (that isn't the obvious reasons listed) is that people with a smooth, glossy, air brushy, sort of art style (like the promotional official art for genshin) are being called AI when it's clearly not.

Lets agree to not call them artist Its like calling a kid whose copy pasted 10 fanart/official arts into a mess of an image an artist

the most common version of AI art ive seen is hyperrealism, but with really unnatural lighting and ambience. like a strong blue light coming from behind the characters when the background shows a warm light, or snow appearing inside the house.

a couple other troupes I see in ai "art": melty jewelry that looks highly detailed upon a glance but is basically metal globs of spaghetti splattered around the image. Same goes for lacey details and it will never be symmetrical. Another troupe is flyaway hairs that are attached to nothing or make no sense which makes it look like the person is shedding. Lastly, I see a ton of bootleg Sailor Moon art, variants include: wrong colored hair, outfits that are half Sailor Moon's battle outfit half casual wear, including cats that are distinctly NOT Luna, Artemis, or Diana, and many others.

One time, I was in a room where the walls would project AI art of whatever you typed into a small device, someone in there with me decided to type “Family love” the results were terrifying.

I have a story: My friend started to use AI art and CLAIMED IT AS THEIR OWN and I FELL FOR IT. I now hate her for it, she could have asked me to draw it but, NO! She can't wait for art made by an actual artist! I told her it looked nice and had amazing rendering (I use cel shading and if I tried to do anything else I'd die) she sent me a bunch more and I started to wonder how she drew so fast. Also, this wasn't the cute animal art, it was AI generated versions OF THE CHARACTERS I CREATED I asked her if it was AI and she said "No." I told my other friend who I trust better, and she said "It's Definitely AI." She asked her and guess what I was told by her: "It was made by bing." So... 1) The friend who had the AI art in the first place didn't tell me to my face, I'm literally the artist in the friend group. 2) She lied to me, and also used my OCs as bases. I'm so pissed.

I find the term "AI artist" to be quite generous, they're more like "brat who bashes face against keyboard" to me. But hey, at least they're using their head for something, right?

The animal one I have experience with. On Christmas this year I received a bag my aunt gave me, it had a frog design on it. As an artist who has had experience with ai art I realized it was ai art, I felt horrible, my aunt probably didn’t know the design was ai art, since she had sewn the bag. I don’t know how to tell her it’s an ai generated art piece since I know she put a lot of effort into sewing the bag. It had all the stuff that Haley mentioned, sparkley raindrops, huge eyes, it looked very small and chibi.

I don't like it when ai generated images are called art. No matter how good the technology gets, it will never ever be art. Slight edit. The reason I say it will never be art is not because I'm insecure about my skill level. I know I likely won't be as good as the ai programs because they can churn out art in seconds. I don't consider them to be art because art is an inherently human and intelligent thing. It takes emotion, it takes time, and it takes work. Ai has none of those. The technical program can improve as much as it likes, but it will never be able to capture the feelings art made by people does.

Ai art is both funny because of how people think a machine will actually make art that does not look like a deformed baby and scary because theres companies that use it and think they can get away with that or people who sell it

The most depressing part of A.I “art” is the CP. Since there are no real kids in the pictures the legal grounds surrounding it are shaky

i keep getting these ads with what looks like a bunch of conventionally attractive women with text that says something like “you can generate nsfw images of you ai girlfriend!!” and it’s honestly kind of funny, but also kind of sad

For the cute animal one, my grandma & mom saw this christmas tree made of cats on facebook & sent it to me just saying "oh look at this it's so cute", looking closely it's ai generated as their faces are all kinda deformed and some of them merged together

I've been getting little chibi models, pixel art, and really gorgeous scenery pieces and it always rips at my heart when people say in the comments 'it's ai' Like the fact u have to zoom into the hands to check if it's actually ai is so disheartening because I can't just enjoy people's creations Edit: I found a string of character design SHEETS from ai and they're really nice designs. The pinterest's commenters have collectively decided that "ai designs = designs up for grabs" I love the uno reverse

I was at a trampoline park once with my friends and we were looking at the wall beside the entrance because we were bored, and there was an ad for something (I don't remember it very well, sorry) and it had a baby playing the guitar on it. My artist senses went off and I said "Dude, that looks like AI" and I look closer, lo and behold, it has seven fingers.

I’ve seen artists be accused of using AI for drawings they’ve done and it’s crazy that this is where we’re going 😢

Honestly the cute animal thing being not real has been a thing for a while like often the cats on some cat food boxes are often just relisticly painted animals or edited photos

"Sexy lady, naked" actually killed me man 😭

It's so scary being an artist with all the ai stuff nowadays. Thank you for this video 🫶

I honestly think AI is very annoying and dangerous to be available for anyone to use, and in this case I'm sure I've seen that a lot of AI art has parts taken from other people's art but you never know where, I've also asked questions and for written things and the AI ​​mixed information about fictional characters that certainly are on the internet. And of course, that thing with the voices sure is creepy...

AI could never recreate the passion artists like Haley put into their work ♥️

SO here for the shad-shade. That whole deal is just.... wild. She looks so wonky in every image that he's like "Look how amazing and accurate it is!!"

my favourite type of AI art is the weird kind I always see on Facebook: AI pictures of young kids with 6 fingers per hand holding a big hyper realistic painting of themselves, with the caption being "My son/daughter is so talented and painted for the first time!" or a similar one with an old person next to an accurate size extremely detailed "wooden sculpture" of a wolf, cat, cars or a couple with the caption "my dad sculpted this!" or "my grandpa sculpted this wooden statue of him and my grandma when they were young!"- there are always some poor old folks complimenting them in the comments 😭😭😭

I hate that there's so many of the semi-realistic anime portraits because now I hesitate when I see art from someone who actually specialises in that style.

Whenever i see someone using ai art and claiming that they’re an “artist”, it pisses me off.

LavanderTowne: Here are some ways you can protect your art from being stolen by ai: Me: Oh sweet! ...Wait a minute I do traditional art-

the way your first drawing is 100% perfectly a description of the ai "art" that disgraced sword-youtuber shadiversity tried to boast about being so deep and good bc he had to use SEVERAL different prompts in the ai program wow! the final product of his "art" was a dark haired anime girl with pigtails in school uniform, holding a sword and slicing through a...dinosaurs?? neck in a pose that makes me spine and neck hurt just looking at it...look it up its extremely funny how bad it looks and how proud of it he is

I agree that AI probably won’t be able to replace people for a long time, if ever, but I’m honestly more surprised by the Alexandrias Genesis mention. Haven’t heard anyone talk about that weirdness in forever. Pretty sure it also supposedly made you immune to all diseases and live to 150 years old, kind of insane anyone believed it.

So recently i entered into an art contest at school in the digital art section. Some friends of mine said they heard people call it ai art. 😭 im honestly flattered but also offended.

I hate hopping on DA and seeing people trying to sell AI generated images

There are a lot of "drawings/paintings" on Pintrest of very detailed dresses and outfits that MIMIC REAL ART. There will be smaller "references" to the side of the main drawing, pretend notes on the side! It's crazy. A good way to tell if something is ai, especially with the fake outfits is checking the line quality and whether some parts just repeat, if there are more detailed parts of the outfit chances are they are just multicolored blobs. The small references to the side also won't match the outfit. It also just doesn't look real, lines go weird places, things are very fake. Let me know if anyone else sees the same ai "art"!

The half angel half demon oc we all made at 11 years old comment is a little too accurate 😅😂

the part where you say “sexy lady naked” is so funny to me and i don’t know why 😭😭

MIdjourney is now getting hit with a lawsuit for using thousands of unconsenting artists for their database!! One of the things that Midjourney was using to justify themselves was something along the lines that "it is very difficult to tell what artists' artwork is being used so therefore we cannot be held responsible for copyright" or something like that, so the evidence proves they were lying about it. Unfortunately, many people have identified that some of the artists they are stealing from are already deceased, but hopefully they will get justice.

my friend is running a dnd campain and i think he has an ai generator that makes portraits based on the names of the npc's in the game. I noticed that they all look like high school characters in school uniforms, they are all elves even when they are not, the gnome character looks like an 8 year old but the most glaring issues are with the hair and the glasses. some characters have two sets of eye brows and hair coming out of places it shouldn't and the glasses just warp reality. it makes me want to give all of my drawings glasses and put elaborate things in their hair that will just fuck up anything generated by ai using anything i make.

my mom calls me over to look at facebook posts of images that are obviously AI very often. it's worrying that i can recognize it right away, but she (almost) always disputes my claims :[

I love how you replicated that blank, slightly cross-eyed stare that's so prevalent in ai images

With the 'Cute but not real animals' I legit thought that it was SUPPOSED to not be real and it was just some artwork which people made because they thought animals were cute and wanted to make them in their artstyle. 😭

Years have passed, and leblehblehbleh is still a legend in LavenderTowne's Patreon.

AI art scares me💀

I hate how AI imagery is taking up art spaces now and even google image searches now 😞 Thank you for making this video

I saw a commercial in Japan about people using AI for like companies and stuff and it had a visualized AI image of the person in the commercial posing and I LEGITIMATELY started screaming.

One of the things I struggle with as an artist is hands and mine almost always end up backwards, or having two left hands. Seeing all this AI "art" made me worry that my backwards hands I seem to never notice until someone else points it out would get my art claimed as AI generated. So now I end up paranoid about my art and my wonky, fucked up and backwards hands that my family and friends joke about, saying it's part of my "style", lol.

When discussing OCs with a friend and making OCs with AI art, we did an experiment one time where we tried to make some of our OCs on AI generators before by using descriptors. It always got rid of things that's essential to the character design and/or makes it look extremely generic. For example, I have a Pokemon trainer OC who wears a lot of sky blue, white, and hints of gold on her middle, has curly bubbly white hair that is supposed to look like clouds to represent her airy "head in the clouds" personality, has a poofy white feathery dress, pearl necklace with an Altarianite on it (I made her when ORAS came out), and exaggerated eyelashes because she's a fashionista, is modeled after a stereotypical angel coupled with fake wings because she loves flying type Pokemon and tries to make herself look pure and precious, and the angelic appearance reflects again her blind optimism and sometimes self confident arrogant personality. Her design has a lot of purpose put into it that reflects not only her personality, but reflects what her favorite Pokemon type is AND what her ace Pokemon is as well (Altaria). Heck, her name is even Ariel, a pun on aerial and airy. So when we put a detailed description of what she looks like into a generator, it made her look like a generic princess/Fantasy Anime girl with too straight of white hair, too dark of blue that had none of the angelic design put into it, and no wings even though we said she has wings. Nothing screams that she's would be a Flying type trainer let alone that she's a Pokemon trainer in general or that she's at all a fashionista. And her face was just blank with nothing representing her blindly optimistic arrogant personality. No exaggerated eyelashes, no sassy smile, and definitely no pose that shows off what she's like. Heck it even gave her a sword! She doesn't even USE swords!! I said "This is why AI is so bad at making original character. Wings? NAH!!! We don't need no stinkin' WINGS despite the fact that Ariel is trying to have that angelic look and the wings emphasis that she's a FLYING TYPE TRAINER! This is why AI will never replace artists. Because when we make characters, we always have some intention put into the design. AI will never have that." And you hit it on the head with the first example. Ironically you had more intention and design with the AI Schoolgirl with Sword than actual AI would ever.

The animal one reminded me of when I stumbled upon the instagram page of someone who was legitimately some really cool animals. Some were mere stylised while others leaned more towards a cartoony/anime-ish style....which a sad amount of people thought was AI generated (based on the comments). Actually checking their profile they had both speedpaints and videos showing all of their layers, pretty clearly proving that they were legit (without even scrolling btw-- they had literally pinned this stuff). It's kinda the reverse of the usualy situation, but still sad to see

I do art sometimes, and I used to like showing it to my parents, but my dad started taking pictures of them then putting it through AI generators. I think it was supposed to be his way of relatimg to my work and showing interest, especially because he use to be pretty good at art until his work took over, but I couldn't stand it. It was literally just taking my work and "fixing" it through a filter. It would erase the small, intentional "imperfections", like freckles, different nose shapes, textured hair, etc. I explained to him that I didn't like it and he's stopped, but it was still really annoying (I felt bad for telling him about it, because he really was just trying to help, but I just couldn't take it)

Going through some extremely hard stuff right now but getting a notification from you has instantly made me feel a little better (it always does). Thank you, Haley.

8:14 Not a disease, a genetic disorder. It originated from a Daria fanfic, which I only know because I watched Izzzyz deep dive video on it

I'm glad no one will feed my art to ai. Ai doesn't want my art lol

during the first one when she generalizes "that type of ai art" and "the people who do this" is very funny when its clearly just about shadiversity lmao, that guy is so good at publically embarrassing himself

I will say this. AI art will NEVER EVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER be real art. NOBODY will EVER replace art. EVER. Let's not forget Lerenado De Vinci and all the amazing artists who got us to where we are today.

Lavender: it's really sad that the most creative thing ai "artists" can envision is an anime school girl holding a sword. Shad Brooks: Dont come at me like that!

What's horrible is when the picture is photorealistic but still has the crazy exaggerated cartoon porn proportions. straight up nightmarish

My dad was fooling around and somehow generated alpacas and several bovine creatures playing badminton, and some of the clouds were alpacas, and some of the creatures had human hands? It was a nightmare

Who needs ai imagery when we have Lavendertowne (a real artist), who can draw the uncanny pictures for us?

3:26 I just noticed, she has 6 fingers on her left hand, and that kinda adds to the whole AI "art" vibe

I was looking for artwork of a genderbent version of a character and the only good one I found turned out to be AI 😢

The thing is AI images are a great starting point for figuring out what how you want to dtaw something, but it most definitely is not something you should call a finished product. Also remember NFT's? This is NFT's 2.0, and techbros be seething.

8:24 "alexandria's genesis," holy crap, i was just thinking about that the other day and i couldn't remember what it was called. i think it was someone's creative writing bit they posted in the same style as large tumblr "true fact" accounts and people just didn't question it. or any of the other questionable tumblr "true facts." also the tiny hands coming out of the main hand had me ugly laughing

The "cute animal" genre of AI art reminds me of the thing that frequently happens where an artist will create a fairly realistic plush animal, then others will share a photo of their creation without context passing it off as a real baby animal. (Sometimes these have been used as the thumbnail image for KZfaq cute animal compilations, although the critter in the thumbnail never appears in the video.)

Something I find funny about ai art is that every time somebody describes how to look out for, it starts sounding like how someone would see through a fae glamour, "their faces are too beautiful, the colors too bright. They cast unnatural shadows and glow with untraceable light. You will see beasts and swirls if color behind them. They can never get the fingers ir teeth right" And I always find it funny.

The part that saddens me the most about ai art is that if it was really good before i started drawing i dont think id ever have picked up a pencil. I was scared of failure, and only through copying others simple art (i say simple because it would be in that generic anime style and such, still looked good though) and i wouldn't've tried had i been able to enter 6 words for a image.

With the animals, a lot of the ones I'm sent are actually handmade stuffed animals, but it is weird they get played off as real

personally the most common ai thing i see is "photos" of whimsical furniture. Like a couch that's a mushroom or something. it's always got that specific airbrushed/velvety look to it.

Every time I notice myself being too demanding to my own art, I remember all the praise AI gets for drawing people with three hands and seven fingers (and two completely different eyes) and stop being so mean to myself (very cool technique if you've got an unhealthy amount of perfectionism)

Recently, I’ve been seeing ai images that took a while for me to recognize it was ai, and that genuinely scares me. I have to inspect every single drawing I come across before liking the post because I don’t want to support the people who claim ai imagery as their own, and that’s sad. Hopefully, this is just a phase for us.

I GOT YOUR BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS THEYRE AMAZING

the random reminder that alexandrias genesis exists 💀

I like AI art the way I like my nickel jewelry.. I don't like nickel and I'm allergic to it.

i've fallen for the animal ones in my late night relaxing scroll before bed (it's my bad habit i always stay up way too long on accident) mainly on twitter though because i barely use facebook lol. i wake up in the morning and show my husband and realize it's fake.

About the too cute animals : i recently created a new instagram account and on the brand new "for you page" EVERYTHING was just the atrocious fake pictures of cats

Get ready for an influx of novels in your comments section written by these AI bros. Hopefully, they'll run them through an AI that can convert their ramblings to something with proper spelling and grammar before posting them. Anyway - great video!

I used to love scrolling google images for other peoples' art or cosplay for inspiration for stories or characters or worlds... tried it recently and it was almost impossible to find actual images that weren't ai generated and/or nightmare fuel...

ai genereted oc spreadsheets where every picture has a different hairstyle, jewelry and outfit. my pinterest feed is flooded with them

I thought a.i art sounded neat until I learned they were stealing the art for the a.i program. Then I learned that people were using the a.i art to sell online or to put them in art competitions. It got depressing really quick.

Honestly I’m not scared of ai images replacing any job I’d like to have. I’m annoyed that people will think this stuff is real art and not appreciate artists whose art doesn’t look as nice as ai art. I know life isn’t fair but damn it’s depressing

The character/costume "design" images grind my gears the most, especially when you can see the ghost of someone's signature or watermark on it. That junk is clogging up Pinterest like crazy, makes it almost impossible to find actual inspo or refs.

your baby-faced schoolgirl illustration unironically looks dope hahah

It's so shitty to see "Ai artists"with accounts that popped up one month ago on Instagram with 100K plus followers. Guess that's good enough for a lot of people.

Just finished reading unfamiliar one and two and I absolutely love it , ❤ You really inspire me :D

Your ideas about the importance of intentional communication at the end are great. Love what you do and I'm gonna be thinking about that with my endeavours this year.

The extra finger on that first drawing was a sweet detail

I wasn’t expecting to be whacked by a wet trout with the mention of Alexandra’s Genesis. Great video, with great critique and commentary.

Im starting to see AI all over pinterest ( which I havent before until recently ), and its starting to get a bit more tricky to recognize. I try not to clock just everything as AI, cuz I know some actual artists DO have similar styles ( which are probably the ones who were stolen from ), and I feel bad. But it IS super disheartening when Im wanting to look up actual art from actual people, but all the AI bullshit is flooding the feeds 😔

About the holding the blade thing in the beginning, that was actually historically used. Although it isn't a common practice, it was still there.

I have this bookmark that I got for free when I bought a bunch of books, and it's so clearly ai I actually find it kind of funny- It's supposed to be a butterlfy but it looks SO cursed. it has three antennas (one of them if just floating in the air), only one wing, and the most messed up looking legs. It's like one big leg that's not even connected to the body with really long hair looking things coming out of it. Also the flowers around it are literally blending into eachother 😭😭