
disillusioned
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Was originally going to tag this Blackpill or Over but it's so hilarious to me that I gave it the JFL tag instead 
Fucking brutal.
TLDR: Guy spends his entire life becoming an artist and now he's a depressed NEET with no sense of purpose because AI cucked him.
Most brutal quote:
"It's unfair, I'm screwed, my life is ruined and I'm having trouble finding the will to go on. I already had self esteem issues before all this happened, now they're 10x worse. I feel like I can't negotiate for more money or people will run to AI, I can't focus on my work. My relationships are falling apart because I'm such a wreck. I'm binge eating as a coping mechanism and slowly gaining weight because I just don't care anymore. My life is a fucking waste, I'm a loser, I spent 10,000 hours of hard work to be a loser."
My Life's Been a Fucking Waste Thanks to AI Art
I'm a professional artist, I've been doing freelance illustration professionally for about a year at this point. I'm not making much money, and I'm working ~60 hours a week, it's par for the course when you're just starting out. I used to tell myself "It's fine that these jobs pay poorly. Every...
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Fucking brutal.
TLDR: Guy spends his entire life becoming an artist and now he's a depressed NEET with no sense of purpose because AI cucked him.
I'm a professional artist, I've been doing freelance illustration professionally for about a year at this point. I'm not making much money, and I'm working ~60 hours a week, it's par for the course when you're just starting out. I used to tell myself "It's fine that these jobs pay poorly. Every hour I spend at this is an investment in my skill, and in the future I'll attract bigger, and better clients, get faster at working, and it'll all come together." but the rise of AI generated art has thrown all that into question. I'm not sure if there's a future for me in this industry, anymore, and I don't have anything else going for me. I'm 30, I've got no money, no car, I live with my dad, I have few friends, no other real marketable skills. I thought learning to draw was my ticket to having a better life, and I put all my eggs in that basket, what the hell am I supposed to do now?
It takes a 10,000 hours minimum to have the skills to be a full time professional artist, 20,000 hours to make top tier work that can get on the front page of portfolio websites. I spent the last 8 or so years of my life - pretty much my entire adulthood - getting good at this, now just anybody can type some words into the web UI for a custom Stable Diffusion model, and get results comparable to me.
What's even worse is the technology is powered by the works of human artists, the AI basically looks for statistical correlations between arrangements of pixels on great works of art, and makes something that fits within those parameters. If there weren't human artists making great work, the AI wouldn't be able to do anything. It's completely unfair.
It gets even worse, the AI functions best when it pulls data only from top tier artists, people make custom "models" which are trained on the works of only the best artists who share a particular aesthetic, or even the gallery of one specific artist. Another thing people do is type artist's names into the text prompt the generate the image. In short: more stealing = better results, more of your own original idea = prompt that just confuses the AI and makes bad results.
It gets worse, people can also use AI to steal art the old fashioned way and get away with it, you can feed somebody else's painting into an AI and tell it "make something 90% similar to this but different enough that I can pretend it's mine and sell it." It's so fucking unfair, it makes me so mad, and I see it everywhere, paintings from my favorite artists that I recognize, but have been laundered through AI.
It's unfair, I'm screwed, my life is ruined and I'm having trouble finding the will to go on. I already had self esteem issues before all this happened, now they're 10x worse. I feel like I can't negotiate for more money or people will run to AI, I can't focus on my work. My relationships are falling apart because I'm such a wreck. I'm binge eating as a coping mechanism and slowly gaining weight because I just don't care anymore. My life is a fucking waste, I'm a loser, I spent 10,000 hours of hard work to be a loser.
I almost forgot: people online are actually taunting artists over this, calling us names, telling us to get a real job, telling us we're whining. Fuck em'. I wish I could fucking kill em' all. In Minecraft.
It takes a 10,000 hours minimum to have the skills to be a full time professional artist, 20,000 hours to make top tier work that can get on the front page of portfolio websites. I spent the last 8 or so years of my life - pretty much my entire adulthood - getting good at this, now just anybody can type some words into the web UI for a custom Stable Diffusion model, and get results comparable to me.
What's even worse is the technology is powered by the works of human artists, the AI basically looks for statistical correlations between arrangements of pixels on great works of art, and makes something that fits within those parameters. If there weren't human artists making great work, the AI wouldn't be able to do anything. It's completely unfair.
It gets even worse, the AI functions best when it pulls data only from top tier artists, people make custom "models" which are trained on the works of only the best artists who share a particular aesthetic, or even the gallery of one specific artist. Another thing people do is type artist's names into the text prompt the generate the image. In short: more stealing = better results, more of your own original idea = prompt that just confuses the AI and makes bad results.
It gets worse, people can also use AI to steal art the old fashioned way and get away with it, you can feed somebody else's painting into an AI and tell it "make something 90% similar to this but different enough that I can pretend it's mine and sell it." It's so fucking unfair, it makes me so mad, and I see it everywhere, paintings from my favorite artists that I recognize, but have been laundered through AI.
It's unfair, I'm screwed, my life is ruined and I'm having trouble finding the will to go on. I already had self esteem issues before all this happened, now they're 10x worse. I feel like I can't negotiate for more money or people will run to AI, I can't focus on my work. My relationships are falling apart because I'm such a wreck. I'm binge eating as a coping mechanism and slowly gaining weight because I just don't care anymore. My life is a fucking waste, I'm a loser, I spent 10,000 hours of hard work to be a loser.
I almost forgot: people online are actually taunting artists over this, calling us names, telling us to get a real job, telling us we're whining. Fuck em'. I wish I could fucking kill em' all. In Minecraft.
Most brutal quote:
"It's unfair, I'm screwed, my life is ruined and I'm having trouble finding the will to go on. I already had self esteem issues before all this happened, now they're 10x worse. I feel like I can't negotiate for more money or people will run to AI, I can't focus on my work. My relationships are falling apart because I'm such a wreck. I'm binge eating as a coping mechanism and slowly gaining weight because I just don't care anymore. My life is a fucking waste, I'm a loser, I spent 10,000 hours of hard work to be a loser."

