Fur Affinity bans AI-generated art, but AI has a plot to return.
by Patch O'Furr
Policy update from the furry fandom’s main independent art site.
AI art tools made me think of a term: sequential juxtaposition acceleration.
An AI tool starts with scraping millions of pre-made images from the net. That’s a learning set to combine and interpolate. Prompt it with key words (green grass, old building), and you get approximations of everything that matches. One could call this a form of cheating artists, because people don’t like the scraping of pre-made sources without permission. But after they combine, the output is nothing that ever existed. That’s doing what any artist does to learn from reference, but in a wholesale, industrial way that wasn’t envisioned by the current creative property system.
Back to that problem in a minute, but first think about art context.