I'm in the middle of furries eagerly promoting/enjoying AI "art" and it's a real cold shower with extra bleach

so I wanted to say that if you're out there, ACTUALLY making stuff? I see it, it's YOURS, and I appreciate it way more than any AI polished average of stuff jacked from ACTUAL artists.

@Leucrotta The fact that it’s encroaching on our space so extensively at this point isn’t good for my morale either…. I guess you just can’t get between people and glossy plagiarized sludge.

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@KronoGarrett I've been thinking about this in the context of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Dancing in the Streets." And I think I have an involved discussion coming together about this, but I'm also realizing just how much this stuff presses my buttons on a personal level. Both of them get long, and right now I need to get to the day job, grrr...

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