yeah, been using it for years since 2017 and it never fails to wow me when I see so much AI rubbish when there was so much cool and inspiring content, how the mighty has fallen.
@@Deletirium thing about Pinterest is that it’s been such a beloved platform for so many artists for many years so the fact that it’s being polluted with inescapable AI slop is honestly just sad
Thank you, Lord!!!! But seriously, I didn't have ads because I use uBlock Origin, Clickbait Remover (but apparently, it didn't do anything to remove SamDoesArts from my Subscription feed....) and Unhook, to name a few addon apps. Also, did you know there are Christian dead-lifters? John Jacobs' Power Team from Dallas, TX is a cadre of Evangelical Christians who are fitness-centered martial artists. There's even Shields of Strength, a line of Christianity-themed weightlifting and exercise merchandise. So... if ya ever find any muscle mommies with rosary beads... would ya let me know?
I feel so bad for little girls growing up with this. It was bad enough comparing yourself with models who have personal trainers, tonnes of money and hair, makeup & styling teams. Now they'll be comparing themselves against pictures of women who literally aren't even real.
@@sociallyineptsnapperAt least those people are real, to some extent. But with AI literally generating 'perfect human beings,' it creates a significant problem. These artificial representations perpetuate false and unattainable standards of beauty, reinforcing harmful ideas about ideal appearances and leaving little room for individuality and authenticity.
I genuinely feel like pinterest should straight up ban AI art and let users report it for being AI art. I am not kidding when i say that I wasn't able to find a single normal picture, even when looking on google images
I work in architecture and it effects our work flow so much with clients. for the past year clients come with ai generated interior design, architecture, landscape they found on Pinterest, stuff that is not possible to make. most of our clients are older so I have to sit there and explain how that is not real or realistic for their situation. even had someone generate an image in front of me and told me to just make that, which is so disrespectful
My friends in architecture school are using AI for their renders. It's a fast tool to get your idea across but they don't even edit them afterwards. It may not be that important in hypothetic projects but it definetely ruins our perspective about our project on paper and the project that came to life.
They could however they want do that to an artist, but GOODLUCK try to build that kind of design, well it happens to me one day with a client, some of them come back to us anyway, and asked how to build those thing 😂😂
@@pineappleparadise8068 Doesn't that also go against the point of exercises to begin with though? Like, they're not learning *wrong*, but they're also not learning, if they let a computer handle it.
Unless Pinterest either removes the majority of this AI slop or provides us with an option to 'hide all AI images', there will basically be no point to keep using it
ai content can be created faster than human made. more content = more revenue. ai is easy money, the economy is already addicted. there will never be any legislation to protect consumers.
@@leelee4591 The alternative is reality, go outside and doodle some shapes you see in a tree, or a cool bird you saw. The internet isn’t going to help you, so I’d say just stop supporting what you know you hate. I’ve stopped using the internet for inspiration mostly, I get it from my friends’ pieces, or new experiences I have. It adds more depth to you and your art, and you are worth so much more than what the internet or AI has to offer.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
Can we also mention how many freaking ads are all over Pinterest??? I can’t even scroll through my fyp without getting at least 10 ads and barely any actual pins. Pinterest we are CRYING out for you to stop this madness and go back to the olden days of Pinterest 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Edit: to all of those who are suggesting an ad blocker, I thank you for that suggestion! But respectfully, an app should not need an ad blocker to make it sufferable to browse. That’s plain ridiculous that an app needs an ad blocker to function. I will definitely consider an ad blocker so please lmk how I can get one on mobile, thanks!
OMG this has been the main reason why I don't use Pinterest on my phone. literally all of the results of a search is ads that don't relate and then when there is an actual post ITS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I SEARCH 🙏🙏🙏
So glad this is being talked about. My Pinterest is disgusting with how much AI content is now there. Not even portraiture but landscapes, buildings and so much more, that I've basically given up using the platform
My god, yes! It's not just characters! I swear I can't get a decent photo of a coral reef without getting these weird artefacts and questionable shadows??
same unusable If I wanted to see AI slop I'd logue to facebook havent done it since 2018 and don't inted to do it now Pinterest can join the pile with the rest of dead social media, for all I care it is dead
Same here. So sick of the fake houses, fake vistas, fake animal pictures. They want to habituate us to content that they can make for free, no need for people. Only without our art to steal from, how would they make their crap?
@Wallflowerxc There are so many fake AI "photos" it's unreal. Just do a Google seach for whatever phrase for a pose or a landscape, and you will get 25%AI, and if you God forbid klick on that, you get 90 % AI following that. Ther is no doubt this crap is being pushed on us.
Another thing that’s upsetting is that it feel so gross when you’re momentarily inspired by an image only to realize it’s slop devoid of substance, posted out of greed, and then your genuine enthusiasm is replaced by disappointment. We’re just being cheated by faceless scammers who profit off our attention on their meaningless posts. In those moments I have to log off because I’m no longer interested in drawing or writing anymore.
There are entire content farms in southeast Asia that do nothing but flood every social media site with spammed AI accounts/pictures/videos etc, each funneling some tiny pittance of an income back to the supervisors. AI was a lifechanging gift to the "too lazy to learn how to create" crowd.
@@augusto7681 Well, actually, if you start "learning" from the fake art, you ill be learning to make their mistakes... The shadows aren't right, the hands aren't right and lots of other issues. This is why REAL references are so important. I can't wait for the law that prohibiths the theft by AI.
@@augusto7681 inspiration ONLY. I've met several new artists who have actually shot themselves in the foot by not being selective about their references. Their anatomy and understanding of lighting, form and flow is terrible. They've done themselves a great disservice and now have to unlearn months of harmful practice.
I'm not even an artists. I like searching houses to build in the Sims and even that is full of AI crap If we follow the dead internet theory Pinterest is probably the first app to fall down.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
ive given up most online sources for reference material. the internet is dying. i recommend collecting magazines, picture books, and old photos. start your own physical pinterest boards, keep files of images you cut out, add to it constantly. pretty soon you wont have to search the internet for anything you want to draw. it can really help you find your style too, cuz all your references are unique to you.
Yeah, I agree. An digital idea of it would be to follow real artists of all kinds (drawing, painter, photographer, make up, hairstylist, gamedesigner, architects, chefs, cosplayers, dancers, etc), any kind of artist whose material you want to use as a learning or inspirational tool. I do follow some dancers, hairstylists, make up artists, chefs (cooking chefs), photographers and so on on social media. I also follow fencers, archers, animal caretakers and so on to both appreciate their work and to sometimes use as a reference too. It may also work looking into catalogs, be they digital or physical, like, architectural catalogs, interior design catalogs, fashion catalogs, etc. Maybe to look directly, maybe even follow, fashion companies, architectural companies, etc, of your preference. Maybe even investigate and use as reference real photos and videos from houses being sold if one wants to learn how to draw houses, for example. One thing that I realized way before ai drawings was a thing is that following cosplayers and using them as reference to drawing and learning how to draw specific things (like elves, faeries, fantasy knights, fantasy mages, etc) works really well.
Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture. Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.
Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture. Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.
The example of the 70's fashion demonstrates a more sinister problem: In 20 years no young person really knows what the past looked like. All the real photos and paintings will be drowned out by AI slop. We are litterally loosing all of human culture.
We got to take great care of our libraries with books. Pictures, drawings, and writing within the books! And trust books published before the AI age :)
Was für ein Schwachsinn. Bei sowas kommt ihr Leute drauf. Aber künstliche Diversifikation ist in Ordnung, ja? Das ist ja nicht schlimm, wenn man auf einmal die halbe Bevölkerung der 1920er in GB oder so schwarz macht oder die Vergangenheit Sonst wie verbiegt. Solange sowas gemacht wird, soll es ruhig noch viel mehr ai geben! Wenigstens sehen diese Bilder dann gut aus. Und was für ein Schwachsinn, sich an irgendwelchen Kleinigkeiten aufzuhängen. Wenn man inspiration sucht, soll man die Bilder halt verwenden. Aber, oh nein, dieses Detail stimmt nicht. Bla Bla. Na und. Man soll es ja nicht kopieren.
I found a massive book at the library last time, which was a repository of the first google images results for every word of the English dictionary. My immediate thought was that if it was made today, such a book would be filled with AI slop, and it's only getting worse.
@NukaColaLight nein, es wurde mit Bildern gefüllt sein, welche aus Worten resultieren, die künstlich aus political correctness erfundenen und gepushten Wörtern generiert wurden. Das ist das Problem. Niemand weiß mehr, wie man noch normal spricht und vor allem DENKT.
and that is the thing that was supposed to end all jobs the shit that tells people to put glue on pizza and draws the bicep in the forhead that is a 10 trillion worth bet for silicon valley types
YES! I was looking for fanart inspo from a popular fandom, and like 80% of google images were ai garbage, and like 98% of the "similar" or "suggested" stuff. I'm an artist too so it sucks that I have to use medical charts with stiff poses to work out how the anatomy works, or hunt down an artist's anatomy book. It feels like web browsing before I installed adblockers, except I can't ignore the soulless slop.
What annoys me most is when I'm trying to look up references for photograph references of architecture, clothing, hair, etc. and it just feeds me AI Slop instead.
That's happening to me as well, literally I was just searching up characters in t-posing positions (was trynna get a better idea for how a model of mine should look) and I keep seeing AI everywhere. Even if I search up birds or bird beaks I keep getting those AI ones more than the actual ones.
maybe it's arbitrary and contrived, but i really do not want to be "inspired" by AI-created visual reference. show me the images it stole from so i can reinterpret it on my own, sure, but i don't feel right about letting pre-manufactured emotionless slop get into my brain.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
My dad works with technology and programs, often making stuff for companies, and he complains a lot about generative AI, almost as much as artists if not more. He explains that while as a concept it's cool, it creates a world filled with slop and misinformation that can seriously harm people if they can't tell if it's fake or not (and there are a lot of those people out there, myself included). If technology people are complaining about another "technology", that may be a sign that's it pretty shit
My dad does the same, honestly. He understands the world is moving forward, and he often talks how when he was a kid, something like this was unthinkable. Alien almost. But now he's worried. He's worried about the future, heck in my country there were news to watch out for AI, because there were examples of people using it to fake voices to a point it once caused a Political issue. He also looks at someone like me that makes art and writing and is worried that my generation who spend years learning, and grinding for something greater will never come true. He watched me study anatomy, see my excitement for art of others, only to now see me worry if I'll make it because "Ai can do it faster and better"
Can confirm. Artist/Writer/Programmer here. It’s the *same exact story* for everything genai touches. All i hear in vendor calls is “we have a new genai feature! Don’t even use our platform and let ai spit out ai hallucinations straight to your customers!” :C
@@hypomediocrity probably it'll be like that until they notice with AI generation technology people are losing jobs and without jobs nobody will have money to pay their bills and buy other things
AI is excuse for corporations to cut corners even more ever before honestly its deserving they dont deserve real art and this is the future they want so let them give what they want if a rat wants to get caught in a mouse trap let it go there
If somebody made a Instagram/Pinterest site wit a total non-AI policy, it woud freaken slay the market! There are so many of us fed up with this flood of fakeness.
Yesterday, I found a site called Refern. I haven't used it yet so I can't tell you how good it is but in their FAQ they say AI generated images are allowed but are strongly discouraged. Not only that, but AI generated images can be marked by the community and won't show up in the explore page. I dunno, seems worth a shot.
My biggest gripe with Pinterest is that AI will be pushed to top searches. So similar to how google images now works- you really can not find what your searching for!
Today I went through an old folder of saved art I had and I was like "ok how much of this is gonna be AI slop that I saved". I realized I made this folder BEFORE AI had completely run ramped on the internet. It made me miss the old days of just scouring the internet without worrying if something was made by a human or not. Which was such a weird and honestly sad nostalgia to experience.
and why does something you like HAVE to be made by a human? I don't understand how you saved something, probably because you liked it or enjoyed the image but because it's A.I, you discard your Joy for Hate. Humans always create their own Hell. Focus on what makes you Happy instead of spreading hate on something that you clearly enjoyed but discarded because of the fear to not fit in with the general opinions.
I started using Pinterest back when it was brand new and I still have some boards from back then of actual artists work that I love and still want to one day emulate. I also regularly got ‘this pin was removed as it was posted without the original artists consent’ notifications which I respected. I don’t get those any more and I don’t get to find new artists or crafters as it seems Pinterest thinks I just like looking at pretty pictures. It doesn’t bother to learn WHY I want to find those specific images.
I dunno if you're familiar with UA-cam's new auto-dub function. But in case you're not, I would suggest you should take a look at it cuz' when I first watched this video it had some godawful german TTS-voice talk over it. 😅 UA-cam anabled it on most channels automatically, I also had to de-activate it manually. Anyway, all the love to ya my dude 🫶
@QuikBlazer that's what's so sad about the whole ordeal. People who want to cause harm are doing just that. But people with no ill intent are also causing harm, unbeknownst to them. Then when the people like us who are affected by it speak out about it, we get told we're joyless, and "why can't you just be more lighthearted about it?" I lost my career to this. My work is in those datasets, and yet people want us to just "lighten up" and buy things with AI plastered all over it and excuse people with no ill intent for not having their due diligence. I'm really tired of making excuses for those people. It's genuinely very lame of them. They are the ones funding the crooks. They are teaching people that generating images off a system that steals from artists and saturates their own market with slop is fine and dandy, and it is not. So we need to teach people the signs to look for, and if they don't care enough to even try, they are large part of the problem.
@@sunla Firstly, I'm so sorry that you lost your job, and not because you were a bad employee, just because a souless, lifeless alternative was more economical. It isn't fair to you or anyone, and I hope you get another better job. Secondly, I agree. Generative AI in particular sickens me. There's something innately wrong that I feel when I look at AI videos, they've obviously got better, but the uncanny effect remains the same, It's vomit inducing and almost triggers my panic attack. Chatbots may be even worse. You see, I write on Quora as a hobby, it is, I mean was a superb space for writing and expressing how you feel, hell, even professors and historians swarmed the space with intellectuals. Now, it's so bad that I've lost all hope for it, AI generated images that give me goosebumps whenever I look at them, very obviously AI answers, and not to mention the literal racist bots that swarm it. Generative AI is a curse. I do believe that AI in itself can be a good tool as it's used in some hospitals to detect cancer, but the way it's being used by the majority makes me sick. I've tried telling the people I know, family included, this, but they simply do not care enough. They should take a lot of blame, but at the end of the day, it's up to lawmakers to do something, and they won't. I kind of wish that AI was heavily paywalled to curb this, It ruins my experiences in a lot of places.
@@sunla I'm so sorry for what you experienced and I wholeheartedly agree. My favourite site, Quora was ruined by generative AI. AI isn't all bad as it's being used to detect Early cancer, but it's being abused
literally its so frustrating because 70% of the things on my fyp are always ai generated and they never do anything when you report them. Pinterest was my fav social media app and lowkey the best one rn its so sad to see this
The best thing I suggest you can do to counteract the a.I feed is to, as you scroll, start to observe certain “feels” of a.I art, it’s harder to do than it sounds, but I started to just not click on any art that’s either 1. Weirdly smooth looking and 2. All a.i art that depicts its idea of “humans” seems to fall victim to same face syndrome. I noticed that the less I click on those a.I images, (even to report them because Pinterest sees that as engagement nonetheless) the less I see them in my feed. Also, if you can like comment or even just click on obvious actual artists pieces, maybe Pinterest will get the memo soon.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it. Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel. Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
I started studying game design recently and we have to make one project where we create our own world, setting and characters. A classmate of mine showed me her ideas and inspirations she prepared the day prior. She is still a beginner artist and was totally baffelled with all the AI slop I was able to pin point in her pinterest board. The rest for the lecture was spend with two other classmates and me to play "Where's Waldo" but with AI mess ups and it was almost every image she had prepared for class.
I studied the same 3 years ago and now specialize in game art. it is difficult to find concepts for all of us and I also met artists that I had to work with for game projects that generated themselves Ai concepts bc its allowed only for inspo but then they were unusable, overscoped and we couldnt make out what was happening in the picture
As an architecture student, finding references for building designs has been an absolute pain. If they don't want to remove AI slop from the platform then yeah just add a tag feature for it or smth. Just the other day I was showing my groupmates some reference pics for our finals... then moments later we realized that it was all AI-generated images😭
@@PixelSubstream they could add an algorithm that would be able to detect a potentially AI generated picture. They won't even have to invent anything new, this thing already exists
honestly, as someone who's super into historical fashion and loves studying the styles of each decade, i totally feel this!. it's so sad to see ai-generated stuff taking over. for people like us who care about vintage costumes and authenticity, it's worrying ! newbies might not even know what's real and what's not, and that can really mess things up especially in a historical context, it's just frustrating to see how this is affecting the whole community and making it harder to find legit content
I wholeheartedly agree with you. If you are new you cannot tell what belonged to which decade or even century.. and people sometimes even defend AI generated photos as being authentic because someone wrote a background story of the generated character.. it is just really sad.
First it was DeviantArt, then Pinterest and pretty soon it’s the entire internet with bots and AI’s “talking” to each other. I mean what’s “social” about any of this?! *smh Glad you’re still keeping it real for all us folks out there. Keep the awesomeness coming! 😊
Photography largely superseded portrait art a century ago, it was art despite what detractors claimed. Pressing a button and letting a machine do the work, is still considered transformative and worthy of copyright. And there are uncountably more photographers than there ever were portrait artists, so everyone everywhere is better off for it. Photoshop, Blender, Digital Art, Art Tablets and so much more all superseded and complemented previous techniques. Expecting superior GenANI assist tools not to follow the same trend and allow even greater art is anti-historic. It's a net positive for everyone everywhere to make art tools more accessible.
@@TheArcanis87 Art is already insanely accessible. Want to draw? A pencil or pen is cheap. Want to do photography? Everyone has a phone with great camera's. Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that. All that AI does is take out the actual artists. What is AI generation if not commissioning the AI to make something for you? You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something. AI isn't an accessibility tool, it's theft and fuelled by capitalist greed.
I can barely write in a legible way. My hands are meant for 16th century masonery, not precision. Luckly I can instruct a computer with keybord and mouse just fine. I was able to diffuse and print a backdrop picture for our LEGO stand this way. "You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something." In the same way you commission a camera to snap a photo for you, and a century ago we all agreed that's copyright worthy. Charles Baudelaire wrote, in a review of the Salon of 1859: “If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon supplant or corrupt it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.” "Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that." You'd be surprised! There are tools like rodin that diffuse a 3D STL from any 2D image, then I can slice it into gcode and print it with my 3D printer! I made a whole board game this way :D Making art more accessible will let even more people do art. And pro artists will always be hired to do pro work. A company CEO isn't prompting midjourney for the new company logo. Pro work, requires pros paid to do pro work.
@@TheArcanis87 With all respects but thats not an excuse. There are so many amazing artists that are disabled. They may be partially or fully missing body parts, colour blind, etc. There's musicians that have created amazing music despite being partially or fully deaf. If a person want's to create, they will find a way despite their circumstances, history has shown this time and time again. Not to mention that skill does not define art. You can be an artist regardless of level of skill. Next, you yourself say "instruct the computer to do x" and then try to make the argument you are also the one creating. When using AI you're prompting, you're asking it to do something you do not want to do yourself nor do you want to pay an actual human for it who would gladly do it. With photography yes I can see why there would be people against that when it came to be, but it's also easy to see the artistic choices and skill a person needs for that. With AI all you do is write another word and pray the AI does what you want. Hell, the same prompt can be used and you get a different outcome. No artistic choices were made except for when to stop gambling on the machine's output. And regarding what you said at the end, that's not sculpting? What I was referring to was clay sculpting, stone sculpting, ice sculpting, etc. AI cannot do those. What you were referring to is the job of a 3D artist of interpreting 2D reference art, making it 3D, and then 3D printing it. That isn't sculpting. Except in the case of where you sometimes sculpt in 3D as well but that's besides the point given I specifically mentioned real life. At the end of the day, with AI the user doesn't create, the AI does based on what you tell it to. Aka you comission it just like you would a real artist.
It's not even just art, it's everything. I go on there sometimes to get reference photos of models to practice faces or whatever. It's becoming really hard to find a picture of an actual human. Sometimes I want to draw hair/braids and I can't find any that look real.
It feels like we are in need of analog data storages. Disconnected from the internet. Like magazines and stuff, but for reference pieces. Maybe libraries will be a hit again in a few years.
The way the internet is going, I feel like we might go back to a time when the most reliable reference is real people who come model every now and then at your local art studio or painting space. Maybe the silver lining of AI garbage is that people won't find digital connections satisfying anymore, if you don't know who's a bot and who's not, and will look for more genuine face-to-face interaction IRL.
Yes omg finally someone mentioned and talked about this😭😭 Pinterest was my favourite media now I don't wanna open the app!! And no matter how I try my feed is random garbage nothing related to what I save or pick I hate it
As an artist myself, I always feel like I'm late to everything. I joined Pinterest in the recent few years only to see nothing but AI art on there, so none of my stuff was even being seen. I joined IG to post my art and tarot and it's swamped with AI. I feel like I always miss out on the golden years of some platform, where you can connect with others, make friends, sell art etc. I'm so lost and confused.
I agree with antares: Cara is a good platform where you can share art with other verified artists. I'd also recommend Bluesky, which is kinda the new "thing" right now. It also has options where you can block AI content. I'm an artist following lots of other artists there!
Im so happy you address this. As a beginner artist, apart from the same 'emptiness' and lack of excitement you describe, i actually feel my learning process is at risk. I cant always tell if it is AI (esp with the muscle photos, you recognized the deltoid-bicep bit but thats beyond me right now...) and you just learn things wrong man. That pisses me off. We're slowly teaching 'eachother' the wrong things this way. Slippery slope.
I wouldn't recommend learning the details from pinterest anyhow, looking at examples from pictures and others' art is great for surface/foundation understanding, but a deepdive requires the laid out explanations because even when for instance, deltoid bicep, is correctly made, you lack the vocabulary to discern that it is there or how it functions in other angles etc. there are a lot of art anatomy books and videos (though one still has to shop around a bit to get someone that actually knows what theyre talking about, one can look at curated resource lists like on the reddit boards for drawing, I personally enjoy Manga Materials) that cover this area
Thank you SO much for pointing this all out. I’ve recently been trying to study Greek sculptures but it gets REALLY difficult to do that when you realize halfway through drawing that your reference has a third arm and the clothing folds mesh into the skin
Hey, I've heard that before somewhere. Seems like a big lack of greek sculpture reference. Maybe for that particular subject a tip I heard a while back would work. Filtering google images to only show images from before 2020 or so.
Dude I saw this AI generated sculpture and I thought it was real. It was beautiful but then I wanted to look for the real thing... It wasn't real :/ so much for a legitimate reference.
The era of image search being a useful tool for research is now over - but local libraries are still alive. The information is still out there, it's just that the internet stopped being the easiest/fastest way to access it.
I have essentially resorted to building up a library of various artwork books for references. I suggest checking out your local shops, & second-hand book stores. There's gold hidden in those hills, especially since the internet has become so saturated with slop.
Sam out here speaking truth! One thing I have found "SOME" relief with Pinterest is flagging AI imagines as blurry. Its tedious but I have noticed my feed isn't showing as much shlop...Its still there but it helps a bit...At least I like to think it does.
If you hide the stuff it also helps. Stuff you see from pinterest are a mix of suggestions of stuff you've already saved plus what you haven't saved that you might like. AI will be fed to you kinda as a default but I've had my account for a while and saved a shit ton and honestly haven't seen that much AI stuff on my homepage but only when i search for certain things.
@@MsAtos12 Completely unnecessary attitude. Nowadays AI art can be deceiving enough to not be recognized "at first glance" and artists will need to actively look for it. Beginner artist likely struggle with this even more so.
@@MsAtos12 Uh Sam LEGIT said that for beginners it is rlly hard to know what is Ai and what isnt? And one of the image (like the person above me said) looked REALLY like actual art, so even he was doubting himself. So first glance? Definitely not. And you can't blame people for not knowing what is Ai or not, as its whole "purpose" is to create some resemblance of real art. Seriously, did you listen with your ears closed?
I literally was thinking about this YESTERDAY. tried to look up references for facial anatomy and the top results for anatomical diagrams were all AI. It was pretty easy to find out, since all the labelling in the diagram had jumbled words, but it still took me a minute. can’t do art studies from pinterest anymore 😔
AI is everywhere and its not just localised to Pinterest, thats why Art books are amazing and i also use other books like wildlife ones as reference sources. Books are my go to and would HIGHLY recommend to all artists !!!
I honestly think it’s going to go full circle back to the ways we used to learn/get references before the internet, and go back to books from trusted authors.
Make sure the book was made before August 22, 2022 (when Stable Diffusion was released), and you won't get ANY AI generated content on accident. it's great.
@@natweigelthere are oceans of crap books, but it's more obvious than the internet. Usually a crap book does not get enough exposure. It's reader base will also tell you that it is AI. If it doesn't have one, be wary...
Yep. Even the AI bros will hide that they are AI bros because what they want isn't AI art, it's to be perceived as real artists without ever putting in any work, seeking profit and self interest by taking the easy way out and misleading people into supporting them. And yet, they destroy the very thing they wish to be by doing so, actively and willfully stealing from those who DID do the work to profit off of their blood, sweat, and tears. It's pathetic.
There was a kid at a college that found out you use AI to detect AI. He programed an offshoot of midjourney to detect essays made by midjourney and flag them. If Pinterest could do that with AI slop to at least mark them, then they could improve the problem tremendously. AI is a tool and it's a tool that can be used against itself.
I saw such a cool art style while scrolling once just to open the comments and see a bunch of people yelling it was AI. I'm getting sick and worried about my future, the only thing I placed so much effort and years will be replaced by soulless pieces.
30 years out: "Exclusive! Zuckerbot's animate life code explains how its decision to flood malls and stores with artificial humans, will enhance your user experience for the better! Consumers will be unable to tell when they're interacting with these androids, but the program will able to target individuals with their own personalized advertising profile, suggesting helpful purchases tailored to their lifestyle during ordinary conversation."
I got the notification for this video and IMMEDIATELY I knew it was gonna be about AI. You can literally look up anything on Pinterest now (i.e. interior design, art styles, FOOD???) and AI will show up with almost 100% guarantee. It's lowkey been tiring me out bc I'm already a perfectionist (I also have OCD) and have trouble finding pins that'll work for whatever I'm doing, and AI is making it 10x harder since its literally half the content on Pinterest at this point.
It's so saddening..but there is a little glimpse of hope for all the new artists who feel discouraged by all this : invests in art books or anatomy books if it's your thing. At least you will get something to start with !
i did that with hiroshi misawa's "pencil techniques", real good book to start of learning the basics and sketching, using his drawings as ref really helped me.
I'm into arabic and farsi calligraphy and I visit pinterest everyday for inspiration and to collect good compositions I'm relieved that this side of art isn't affected by AI AI can never imitate that
@@astrea555AI can’t write English, it would be horrible at writing in Arabic, it could never understand how to make Arabic calligraphy without making it just a scribble
I'm so happy this is genuinely getting addressed by artists with a platform!! Pinterest has been my main source of reference as an art student, yet now I can barely even find any real photos of what I'm looking for anymore. It's ridiculous at this point
something i've noticed is how outside of tech/ai enthusiasts, most people only see ai image generation as a weird knick-knack to mess around with for a few minutes & nothing more, even despite all the ads hyping it up. i wonder if most will ever use ai or if the companies will finally stop pushing it
Great vid and theme. I was an OG beta user for Pinterest and used it extensively for a decade as a storyboard artist, illustrator and concept artist. Sadly it’s not really part of my process anymore. I find Instagram saves are more helpful these days, and that system is trash.
YES THANK YOUUUUU!! Pinterest has taken such a nosedive, not only with all the AI crap, but all the ads and shopping promos to the point that I can’t scroll without seeing some kind of advertisement every 3 seconds. It has really fallen off and it makes me so sad
finally someone who actually talks about this stuff, especially things like others stealing art and posting it without credits, and posting ai “art”, thank you for talking abt this
in terms of social media, i only use discord, youtube and bluesky rn (the lamest being yt bc of all the freaking ads, although I've curated my feed a lot) I've been working on spending less time on social media and more doing crafts and handsy stuff. Im learning embroidery as a hobby i do not plan to capitalize with, and im working on starting a sticker/poster/bookmarks shop. Spending time doing things with my hands makes me feel more connected to myself and the real world, and im doing my best not to forget about it
Yea instagram added this new AI character thing where you can create this character to chat with you. But personally I feel that is just digging a deeper hole. I mean the whole point of social media is interact with "humans" (we've come to a point of using that now) and adding this AI character chat just dismisses the entire point of people sharing creativity, meeting new people sharing ideas. I really don't understand why and how social media platforms are adapting to this
AI right now is making "solutions" where's there's no problems at all There's a hundred more important things it should be used for It's like every big company is rushing to slap AI on their product Imagine you go buy your kids some toys and they were 3d modelled by AI It's just sad that our cries will just hit a wall
@@Fool1999 I agree. Nothing useful from AI. For example, medicines for terrible diseases. Only some nonsense spam and huge profits of corporations like NVIDIA.
I THOUGHT THIS ALL WAS REAL😰😭I always used to compare my drawing to that, it just demotivated me even more. I've thought always that my skills are nothing when ppl out ther are making great art like that. I'm glad I realised this, so now I can be proud for MAKING REAL ART!
Wow thanks for talking about this… I love Pinterest, but I’m not so good at noticing AI stuff at a glance, and I honestly had no idea it was so saturated with fake images… I’m so bummed by that fact. Thanks for bringing it into the light!
This is honestly sad to see, mostly for the beginner artist. I am a beginner artist myself, I have motivation to draw and continue my hobby but my motivation is IMMEDIATELY gone when I see an AI Image. Don't let your hobby get taken away by an AI, your art is better and more alive then an AI art. Keep going with your amazing work! (This goes to everyone)
I totally agree, it’s ALL AI now. It is completely annoying and a complete burden. I don’t even wanna use it anymore tbh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who is experiencing this CRAP. Ty for this vid bro. You’re great!😊
thank you for bringing this topic up!! my literally only getaway from ai slop on pinterest is the fact that i search pretty niche types of stuff, but even then this garbage gets to me. my whole life i was really hyped by how technology could advance in the future, but this just killed my wonder and whimsy :(
Something I also noticed (I haven’t watched the full video yet so i apologise if you’ve already brought this up) is the insane amount of ads. If I for example try and look for a new cool pair of pants, some sewing projects or ideas on how to decorate your sketchbook etc almost 60% of what I see is ads. I noticed it too when in the begging you searched for “semi realistic drawing” or something of the sorts. Out of the tighter first results two were ads. It’s very hard to come by original concepts to get inspired by when everything is trying to get you to spend money.
It's a direct result of this. Website fills with slop, human traffic dies down, website panics and increases ad amounts to try and compensate. Endgame is dead websites that just get taken down because their companies run out of money to host all this slop that's produced faster and faster. Traffic and server space ain't free, and the ease with which slop is generated, as well as the complete LACK OF TASTE for the slop fiends that just upload their 700 results for their prompt all the time... it's like a self-filling landfill.
I've learned to click on the first image that closely matches what I'm looking for and then do the "similar images" function. Then it only shows images with no ads. Still does nothing to eliminate the AI slop unfortunately.
Omg thank you for adressing this, it's been so frustrating to me. I go to art school and I'm just trying to find reference for a project, but i search and scroll a little through pinterest and suddenly my feed is FLOODED with AI. Like pinterest really requires a feature to hide AI images like ArtStation has, especially now.
I remember when AI started to get good and I got concerned as an artist. I was looking at a video that covered it, and did not expect the comments in that video to be so full of people who displayed glee that they could now make things artists spent years to learn in seconds, but specifically, they also had no sympathy or empathy with those who would lose their work. Even more than that, they found pleasure in that fact. That made me lose a lot of faith in humanity. A marker that something has been made by a human hand should be made. That distinction might be worth a lot in the coming years, and perhaps only those with the means can pay for art done by humans, but at least it would show that true artistry was and is valued.
True but I also heard about glazing, not sure tho how long it would take for it to become a household service that's simple and free if not cheap enough, like AI it still needs quite some decent hardware or decent cloud service. Any theories of redirection? like does physical art like statues or semi-3D paintings will be more appreciated cause cause AI can't sculpt or print IRL?
People who can't make art tend to see artists as elitists and blessed people who are naturally good so anything that takes us down a peg or puts them on the same level makes them happy
The thing that gets me is that everybody loves to use and see what artists do, but at the same time it is also completely normalized for people to disrespect those who make art for a living. Even if they need art, when it's essential in collaboration with their work or something like entertainment that they cannot see their lives without, they still catalog art and the people making it as something that is below them, beneath "real jobs", something you should not strive to get compensation or recognition for. There’s this vitriol with which people speak of artists demanding simple human decency and respect for their work; all these ai nutheads wanting to steal and claim as theirs the artstyle of talented people without consequence while having the opportunity to scream their own frustrations to the artist's faces: "look, the machine can also make it so you are nothing special!". Not helping at all that the suits everywhere who make the most money while exploiting artists are pushing so hard for ai to be inserted EVERYWHERE so they can evolve to the next step of not even paying or giving credit to creators anymore.
@@exhaustedpunk1477It’s an anti-human sentiment that also goes beyond artists, we’re just the ones that got hit first (I do think we will survive though) but capitalism at its worst is already about profit over humans so people in power would love nothing more than for humans to not connect with each other, and get attached to fake things like an AI friend or AI companion. To consume endlessly , to have nothing, and turn against each other, to compete for scraps. Don’t go down without a fight, value your real connections with other humans now more than ever. Support people that own the art stores, truck drivers, grocery store workers, and humans in every field of work but especially those that are undermined. Focus on face to face interactions now more than ever, and do not give up. This is about the future of humanity as a whole. How beautiful is your intelligence and very essence that an artificial version was made as a disgusting attempt to undermine the blueprint? The artificial version could not exist without you and without all of the content that it fed on of other humans wether it was our likeness, our collective art, our collective music, our collective writing, etc.
Thank you!!! I’ve been so sick of this, I use Pinterest for art reference but also for things like fashion and hairstyle inspiration for myself. 90% of the images on a recent hairstyle search I did yesterday were AI generated, it’s so frustrating, I don’t want to reference fake pictures for my real human hair 😢😂
Commented before watching lmao thank you for shedding light on the hairstyle one! For fashion, luckily I indexed my own wardrobe on Indyx and use Pinterest less and less for inspiration because it’s just AI 😢
It is so HARD to get the result I need lately. I feel like I have to spend half an hour for Pinterest to finally start to show me the results I actually need. Or not. A year or two ago, I could easily find lots of cool comics dedicated to some fandoms or just to people's OCs. Not anymore. But the most horrifying thing to me was searching for a specific artist and not getting a SINGLE result that wasn't someone's AI "art piece" inspired by this specific artist. Not a SINGLE one.
I'm glad I started using it years ago so now I have pretty solid folders for reference and inspiration. I'm also passionate about interior design and unfortunately AI is polluting that area too, it's so sad
I think (and hope) platforms and users will begin to curate their feeds based on trusted, real artists. AI art is quite unpopular because it betrays the idea of art and creativity. The problem is that the people who post AI art know this and generally don't reveal they used it. Thanks for calling attention to this. ~Chris
Yeah fr, which honestly, another point proving real artists right - Think of it this way; all the most popular AI scam-artists that are successful do so by fooling their audiences into thinking it's not AI. (Almost as if a huge part of why art is so important is because a human made it, funny that.) Compare them to the AI scam-artists that ARE upfront about it being AI - who get less success because of it. Both however get far less support and are less popular in comparison to the greatest human Artists. If AI is supposedly better, is supposedly the future, and is supposedly what the masses want... then why do they hide? Add to the fact that if AI pushes humans out of art, then it will lose all the material it NEEDS to even succeed - AI feeding itself AI would only slowly destroy and corrupt the gen AI models. Without humans to steal from, they are nothing. Even with millions of datasets, it would never be able to make something that was genuinely and actually an original. This isn't even covering the ethics problem of people stealing artist's work without consent and creating derivative works for profit without compensating the original artist or crediting them, which is what AI does en masse as it scrubs the internet for more fresh meat to consume, steal, and en-shittify.
Tbh, this video made my day, I was scared that there wouldn‘t be a lot of people feeling this way, but I‘m so happy to see that there still are people who appreciate human interactions. I‘m very happy to see that also influencers who have a pretty big inpact on society make videos like these, it gives me some hope for the future of humanity🙏
I feel this so hard. I have been getting back into drawing here and there after diving into some JakeDontDraw's content, and I had this sudden realization that unlike when I was sketching in middleschool, simply going on google images or pinterest nowadays results in just... Slop, all around. It's really difficult to find quality references and inspiring art - I find myself going into the back catalog of artists from the 19th and 20th century as a pretty reliable source, but I would love to get to know more modern artists, without having to filter out every second photo...
I've been wanting to look for inspiration for buildings or scenery, all 100% ai, and then filled with random ads, and at first it's like wow seems cool, but 5 minutes of scrolling, it's all the same
its the same for home designs and interiors... I was looking for decor inspo but also just like looking at really unique looking homes, and the other day I realized how sooo many of my saves were actually just AI. I want to see real living spaces and real homes...
Thank you ! Pinterest is indeed unusable from several months now... I work in tech and I'm also tired of all this IA "art". We don't need bots to inspire us. Imagination is a human super power !! 🔥
@@rocky-fullerTrue but you could at least find someone in the comments posting the credits, or you could just reverse search the image to find the original artist. It was definitely better in terms of finding original, real content.
if you search for something too complicated or not close enough to what you normally see, it throws the search out the window and gives you another fyp that has nothing to do with what you want to see
@@rocky-fuller Even if it's full of stolen artist work at least you could reverse image search and find the actual artist behind it, i'd rather that than having to shift through a ton of ai images just to find a real proper reference because i'm not trying to study an ai image because I'm just not going to get much out of it and it's just going to give you a lot of bad habits
I'm so glad u made a video about this. it's been bothering me for quite some time now and I WISH Pinterest did something about it but in reality they probably don't even have resources to filter out the AI...
nice finally thank you i really hate AI its so annoying im not good at drawing but just watching you draw and talk inspires me alot im really happy that original artist like you exist
hey sam, this isn’t related to the video, but I just bought your art book and it’s already helping me a lot, on top of being beautiful. thank you for all the work you did!
I recently decided to learn to draw, so yesterday I was searching the internet (not just Pinterest) for muscle anatomy. I encountered exactly what you're describing - many AI-generated images that looked weird and.. non-anatomical :). Fortunately, my wife found some of her old anatomy/drawing books. The internet nowadays seems to be becoming increasingly less and less reliable as a source for inspiration and learning.
I spend a lot of time on Pinterest because most of my feed is memes and the like, but for drawing references I usually use photos of kpop idols from my favorite groups. You can find amazing and creative photos that are not in fact ai. (Aespa & Enhypen in particular have amazing concepts) you don’t need to know who the person is to draw them! (Btw there are quite a bit of slightly edited images, but like 0 ai ones)
I literally agree with you on everything you said, Sam - I’m sooo glad to see someone finally talk about this. It really is disappointing how so much of real artsists’ creativity is being stolen and it infuriates me to my core. I’m so sick of it all, I just want to draw in peace
It's so disappointing when I come onto Pinterest to look for references. I find a nice image to reference, try to analyze a detail, colour, shape, etc., and realize that it is just impossible to replicate because it does not make any sense
it's just sad man... i have absolutely loved digital art from a young age and sometimes I would spend hours searching and it used to be a lovely hobby for me. after watching a lot of art i would be left with a wonderful feeling. i am not a artist but i do have folders of a lot of artists on my pc I keep that stuff very safe. I adore creative work being a video editor. it's just sad man... sorry for the terrible English its my 3rd language
I had just finished another video and this one got proposed among the mosaic of thumbnails at the end. I GASPED when I saw this thumbnail, clicked immediately, excited that FINALLY someone was talking about it. I was stricly a "consumer" of pinterest, not an artist, and left several months ago. What a waste. It was one of my favorite apps. I hate AI so much
Thank you for speaking about this!! As a (somewhat) beginner artist, I keep coming across artworks on Pinterest only to find out that they were made by AI. It makes me so sad ☹️
Really happy you are bringing this up! I do traditional art mostly, but i can only imagine the major effects this has moreso on digital artists. this is a huge slap in the face for the hard work being done. Thanks for advocating!
Someone misunderstood Facebook Instagram and all social media. It was never about connecting with others. It was about making money. Turning people, and attention into a product. THAT is what social media is.
i also have big problem on pinterest with ads there is so many of them sometimes i feel that there is more ads then post and if i like some of them and i want to klick on it to see what it is i am automatically send to the shop end if i want to see the ad i need to klick on some other post to (i don't know how to say it in english move sideways 😅) watch it and sometimes there is so many ads that to wach one ad i need to first find a post that isn't one to beggin with 😕
As an industrial designer getting back into art, this is just sad to see. If the act of finding references to learn, requires me to use half my brain just to discern what is AI and what is not, then that's a problem. I know genuine artists are exhausted and I personally would love for the creative community to come together and start something of our own, maybe a platform or something with credible, human sources, real work made by people with time, love and passion. With all the right anti-AI measures, we could have a new safe haven made by artists for artists. I genuinely think that 2025 is led by creators, not corporates. EDIT: Maybe there already are platforms like that?
That! But on this new platform anybody can post 'his'/'her' new masterpiece and nobody ever can tell if he/her used AI. That is the problem forever now.
@@AMGEEPersonally I can tell, AI always has this very specific almost airbrushed look. Also, the benefit of traditional art is that it uses physical materials (brushes, paint, canvas,etc).
You literally read my mind! 😂 AI is so hard when an untrained eye (like myself) can't tell the difference sometimes. I didn't care when it was really obvious what was fake... but now it's getting harder and harder in a weird dystopian way. Also-- if we are measuring via interaction and bots are created for that purpose then no one can compete because real human interaction will always be less than bots.
A think that helped me a lot to not get Ai is searching for a specific character from a show or something that you cant easily get from prompting. Something very specific. So searching for more specific things, like the name of a leaf or a specific type of tree. So we cant search for genral things anymore, you have to dig deeper and search more specific and unusal stuff that isnt plagued by AI yet.
Pinterest is full of AI slop anywhere you search, it's really saddening
Realp
It’s terrifying
yeah, been using it for years since 2017 and it never fails to wow me when I see so much AI rubbish when there was so much cool and inspiring content, how the mighty has fallen.
AI art isn’t slop
Google searches too are full of AI images.
I’m SO glad someone with a platform is talking about this. It’s been a problem for so long already.
Jouusta made a similar video as well :)
Viyaura has also talked about this
Yes it can also make new artist overwhelmed, when they think it’s real art, it leads them to believe everyone is so much better than them
It's not just pinterest either- consumer-facing AI has turned massive swaths of the internet into a dungheap of lazy art, music, and video.
@@Deletirium thing about Pinterest is that it’s been such a beloved platform for so many artists for many years so the fact that it’s being polluted with inescapable AI slop is honestly just sad
When sam clicked “muscle mommy”, I literally had an ad about the bible💀
Yeah, God must've been like 'Ayo, what is this man doing?'
I love that 🤣
I've brainrotted for so long, I was expecting Karlach Cliffgate from BG3
I had an ad about Tinder 😂😂
Thank you, Lord!!!!
But seriously, I didn't have ads because I use uBlock Origin, Clickbait Remover (but apparently, it didn't do anything to remove SamDoesArts from my Subscription feed....) and Unhook, to name a few addon apps.
Also, did you know there are Christian dead-lifters? John Jacobs' Power Team from Dallas, TX is a cadre of Evangelical Christians who are fitness-centered martial artists. There's even Shields of Strength, a line of Christianity-themed weightlifting and exercise merchandise.
So... if ya ever find any muscle mommies with rosary beads... would ya let me know?
I feel so bad for little girls growing up with this. It was bad enough comparing yourself with models who have personal trainers, tonnes of money and hair, makeup & styling teams. Now they'll be comparing themselves against pictures of women who literally aren't even real.
Similar thing happens to men too, tho prolly to a lesser degree
Yep. Making themselves puke, nose jobs and BBLs won’t be enough now !
I mean this has been a problem for a long while… yknow, photoshop?
This isn't new. All influencers on social media filter/photoshop like crazy.
@@sociallyineptsnapperAt least those people are real, to some extent. But with AI literally generating 'perfect human beings,' it creates a significant problem. These artificial representations perpetuate false and unattainable standards of beauty, reinforcing harmful ideas about ideal appearances and leaving little room for individuality and authenticity.
I genuinely feel like pinterest should straight up ban AI art and let users report it for being AI art. I am not kidding when i say that I wasn't able to find a single normal picture, even when looking on google images
@@Petz-io2xz ☠
@@Petz-io2xz Someone didn't watch the video.
This satire isnt ☠️@@Petz-io2xz
@@Petz-io2xz That's what an AI would say, prove you are not a bot
@@Petz-io2xz no AI "Art" is beautiful.
I work in architecture and it effects our work flow so much with clients. for the past year clients come with ai generated interior design, architecture, landscape they found on Pinterest, stuff that is not possible to make. most of our clients are older so I have to sit there and explain how that is not real or realistic for their situation. even had someone generate an image in front of me and told me to just make that, which is so disrespectful
Ok that one just generating an image in front of you is CRAZY like wth dude 💀
My friends in architecture school are using AI for their renders. It's a fast tool to get your idea across but they don't even edit them afterwards. It may not be that important in hypothetic projects but it definetely ruins our perspective about our project on paper and the project that came to life.
They could however they want do that to an artist, but GOODLUCK try to build that kind of design, well it happens to me one day with a client, some of them come back to us anyway, and asked how to build those thing 😂😂
@@pineappleparadise8068 Doesn't that also go against the point of exercises to begin with though?
Like, they're not learning *wrong*, but they're also not learning, if they let a computer handle it.
Im sorry why is that disrespectful? For the record, I use AI heavily for filmmaking stuff
Unless Pinterest either removes the majority of this AI slop or provides us with an option to 'hide all AI images', there will basically be no point to keep using it
Is there an alternative? We seriously need a hero to build us a non-AI platform for pictures and inspo…
ai content can be created faster than human made. more content = more revenue. ai is easy money, the economy is already addicted. there will never be any legislation to protect consumers.
@@leelee4591 The alternative is reality, go outside and doodle some shapes you see in a tree, or a cool bird you saw. The internet isn’t going to help you, so I’d say just stop supporting what you know you hate. I’ve stopped using the internet for inspiration mostly, I get it from my friends’ pieces, or new experiences I have.
It adds more depth to you and your art, and you are worth so much more than what the internet or AI has to offer.
yeah, they can build in sth that if the ai user didn't tag the post as ai (which the other users can report) they got a strike
@@LopsideMakes Thanks. but I don't think I can just casually go to the airport to look at some planes for inspiration.
2:13 I still remember when this type of artstyle was an actual thing that's not pushed out by ai. I'm gonna miss that.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it.
Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel.
Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
Can we also mention how many freaking ads are all over Pinterest??? I can’t even scroll through my fyp without getting at least 10 ads and barely any actual pins. Pinterest we are CRYING out for you to stop this madness and go back to the olden days of Pinterest 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Edit: to all of those who are suggesting an ad blocker, I thank you for that suggestion! But respectfully, an app should not need an ad blocker to make it sufferable to browse. That’s plain ridiculous that an app needs an ad blocker to function. I will definitely consider an ad blocker so please lmk how I can get one on mobile, thanks!
ad blockers are becoming essential
I understand ads make profits, but the number of ads on pinterest is ridiculous!
Honestly, it’s like 3/4 of the stuff you see is just ads. They can’t need money that bad, I swear
OMG this has been the main reason why I don't use Pinterest on my phone. literally all of the results of a search is ads that don't relate and then when there is an actual post ITS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I SEARCH 🙏🙏🙏
Wayyy too much ads.
So glad this is being talked about. My Pinterest is disgusting with how much AI content is now there. Not even portraiture but landscapes, buildings and so much more, that I've basically given up using the platform
My god, yes! It's not just characters! I swear I can't get a decent photo of a coral reef without getting these weird artefacts and questionable shadows??
same
unusable
If I wanted to see AI slop I'd logue to facebook
havent done it since 2018 and don't inted to do it now
Pinterest can join the pile with the rest of dead social media, for all I care it is dead
Same here. So sick of the fake houses, fake vistas, fake animal pictures.
They want to habituate us to content that they can make for free, no need for people. Only without our art to steal from, how would they make their crap?
Or you can use real images, I haven't come across ai with real images.
@Wallflowerxc There are so many fake AI "photos" it's unreal. Just do a Google seach for whatever phrase for a pose or a landscape, and you will get 25%AI, and if you God forbid klick on that, you get 90 % AI following that.
Ther is no doubt this crap is being pushed on us.
Another thing that’s upsetting is that it feel so gross when you’re momentarily inspired by an image only to realize it’s slop devoid of substance, posted out of greed, and then your genuine enthusiasm is replaced by disappointment. We’re just being cheated by faceless scammers who profit off our attention on their meaningless posts. In those moments I have to log off because I’m no longer interested in drawing or writing anymore.
I think u still can use AI images as inspiration, the pose, light, colors. Buts its indedd annoying when we cant find real people art/photos
There are entire content farms in southeast Asia that do nothing but flood every social media site with spammed AI accounts/pictures/videos etc, each funneling some tiny pittance of an income back to the supervisors. AI was a lifechanging gift to the "too lazy to learn how to create" crowd.
@@augusto7681 Well, actually, if you start "learning" from the fake art, you ill be learning to make their mistakes... The shadows aren't right, the hands aren't right and lots of other issues. This is why REAL references are so important. I can't wait for the law that prohibiths the theft by AI.
@@augusto7681 inspiration ONLY. I've met several new artists who have actually shot themselves in the foot by not being selective about their references. Their anatomy and understanding of lighting, form and flow is terrible. They've done themselves a great disservice and now have to unlearn months of harmful practice.
@@augusto7681 bro i swear the moment i realise it's ai I loose all the interest I had on that art
I just thought about this problem yesterday. I was making some moodboards for interior design and it was so hard to find a genuine interior, not AI
I'm not even an artists. I like searching houses to build in the Sims and even that is full of AI crap
If we follow the dead internet theory Pinterest is probably the first app to fall down.
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it.
Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel.
Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
ive given up most online sources for reference material. the internet is dying. i recommend collecting magazines, picture books, and old photos. start your own physical pinterest boards, keep files of images you cut out, add to it constantly. pretty soon you wont have to search the internet for anything you want to draw. it can really help you find your style too, cuz all your references are unique to you.
Yeah, I agree.
An digital idea of it would be to follow real artists of all kinds (drawing, painter, photographer, make up, hairstylist, gamedesigner, architects, chefs, cosplayers, dancers, etc), any kind of artist whose material you want to use as a learning or inspirational tool. I do follow some dancers, hairstylists, make up artists, chefs (cooking chefs), photographers and so on on social media. I also follow fencers, archers, animal caretakers and so on to both appreciate their work and to sometimes use as a reference too.
It may also work looking into catalogs, be they digital or physical, like, architectural catalogs, interior design catalogs, fashion catalogs, etc.
Maybe to look directly, maybe even follow, fashion companies, architectural companies, etc, of your preference.
Maybe even investigate and use as reference real photos and videos from houses being sold if one wants to learn how to draw houses, for example.
One thing that I realized way before ai drawings was a thing is that following cosplayers and using them as reference to drawing and learning how to draw specific things (like elves, faeries, fantasy knights, fantasy mages, etc) works really well.
This is so fantastic!!!
Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture.
Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.
Or, you can also look at websites like Line of action or QuickPoses to look at real photos of humans to practice your gesture.
Or if you have the money (can look up a free pdf version too), you can find anatomy artbooks made by real artist. Books made by Michael Hampton, TACO, Tbchoi, Andrew Loomis, and the book "Anatomy for Sculptures" are great ways to learn anatomy online still.
I love the idea of doing this and then creating your own digital library that is searchable on your computer or separate hard drive.
The example of the 70's fashion demonstrates a more sinister problem: In 20 years no young person really knows what the past looked like. All the real photos and paintings will be drowned out by AI slop. We are litterally loosing all of human culture.
I really hope people realize how terrifying this is before it's too late.
We got to take great care of our libraries with books. Pictures, drawings, and writing within the books!
And trust books published before the AI age :)
Was für ein Schwachsinn. Bei sowas kommt ihr Leute drauf. Aber künstliche Diversifikation ist in Ordnung, ja? Das ist ja nicht schlimm, wenn man auf einmal die halbe Bevölkerung der 1920er in GB oder so schwarz macht oder die Vergangenheit Sonst wie verbiegt. Solange sowas gemacht wird, soll es ruhig noch viel mehr ai geben! Wenigstens sehen diese Bilder dann gut aus. Und was für ein Schwachsinn, sich an irgendwelchen Kleinigkeiten aufzuhängen. Wenn man inspiration sucht, soll man die Bilder halt verwenden. Aber, oh nein, dieses Detail stimmt nicht. Bla Bla. Na und. Man soll es ja nicht kopieren.
I found a massive book at the library last time, which was a repository of the first google images results for every word of the English dictionary. My immediate thought was that if it was made today, such a book would be filled with AI slop, and it's only getting worse.
@NukaColaLight nein, es wurde mit Bildern gefüllt sein, welche aus Worten resultieren, die künstlich aus political correctness erfundenen und gepushten Wörtern generiert wurden. Das ist das Problem. Niemand weiß mehr, wie man noch normal spricht und vor allem DENKT.
3:12 i searched for "muscle anatomy reference" and they had a chart where the lable 'bicep' was connected to the forehead 😭
Noo 😭
oh hell nah 😭
Nah, what the hell now?
and that is the thing that was supposed to end all jobs
the shit that tells people to put glue on pizza
and draws the bicep in the forhead
that is a 10 trillion worth bet for silicon valley types
forehead*
YES! I was looking for fanart inspo from a popular fandom, and like 80% of google images were ai garbage, and like 98% of the "similar" or "suggested" stuff. I'm an artist too so it sucks that I have to use medical charts with stiff poses to work out how the anatomy works, or hunt down an artist's anatomy book. It feels like web browsing before I installed adblockers, except I can't ignore the soulless slop.
What annoys me most is when I'm trying to look up references for photograph references of architecture, clothing, hair, etc. and it just feeds me AI Slop instead.
That's happening to me as well, literally I was just searching up characters in t-posing positions (was trynna get a better idea for how a model of mine should look) and I keep seeing AI everywhere. Even if I search up birds or bird beaks I keep getting those AI ones more than the actual ones.
maybe it's arbitrary and contrived, but i really do not want to be "inspired" by AI-created visual reference. show me the images it stole from so i can reinterpret it on my own, sure, but i don't feel right about letting pre-manufactured emotionless slop get into my brain.
Another thing that annoys me is that whenever you look something up on Google it feeds you AI first
@@dirtfriendalso, they simple are not accurate. How can you learn to draw folds in clothes if AI is also making them up wrong?
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it.
Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel.
Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
My dad works with technology and programs, often making stuff for companies, and he complains a lot about generative AI, almost as much as artists if not more. He explains that while as a concept it's cool, it creates a world filled with slop and misinformation that can seriously harm people if they can't tell if it's fake or not (and there are a lot of those people out there, myself included). If technology people are complaining about another "technology", that may be a sign that's it pretty shit
My dad does the same, honestly. He understands the world is moving forward, and he often talks how when he was a kid, something like this was unthinkable. Alien almost. But now he's worried. He's worried about the future, heck in my country there were news to watch out for AI, because there were examples of people using it to fake voices to a point it once caused a Political issue.
He also looks at someone like me that makes art and writing and is worried that my generation who spend years learning, and grinding for something greater will never come true. He watched me study anatomy, see my excitement for art of others, only to now see me worry if I'll make it because "Ai can do it faster and better"
Can confirm. Artist/Writer/Programmer here. It’s the *same exact story* for everything genai touches.
All i hear in vendor calls is “we have a new genai feature! Don’t even use our platform and let ai spit out ai hallucinations straight to your customers!” :C
It feels like the economy is already addicted to AI, and I find that extremely worrying.
@@hypomediocrity probably it'll be like that until they notice with AI generation technology people are losing jobs and without jobs nobody will have money to pay their bills and buy other things
AI is excuse for corporations to cut corners even more ever before
honestly its deserving
they dont deserve real art and this is the future they want so let them give what they want
if a rat wants to get caught in a mouse trap let it go there
If somebody made a Instagram/Pinterest site wit a total non-AI policy, it woud freaken slay the market! There are so many of us fed up with this flood of fakeness.
@jackiedragonfly2461 I agree, but who will moderate all this...
you could check out cara. they have a no ai policy and i think they have inbuilt protections against ai scraping
Yesterday, I found a site called Refern. I haven't used it yet so I can't tell you how good it is but in their FAQ they say AI generated images are allowed but are strongly discouraged. Not only that, but AI generated images can be marked by the community and won't show up in the explore page. I dunno, seems worth a shot.
Yes!! I fully agree; It would make things so much better
Cara app is basically no-ai instagram for artists. I'ts slayig the market? not even a little bit.
My biggest gripe with Pinterest is that AI will be pushed to top searches. So similar to how google images now works- you really can not find what your searching for!
Today I went through an old folder of saved art I had and I was like "ok how much of this is gonna be AI slop that I saved". I realized I made this folder BEFORE AI had completely run ramped on the internet. It made me miss the old days of just scouring the internet without worrying if something was made by a human or not. Which was such a weird and honestly sad nostalgia to experience.
my god i thought the same freking thing a while ago
and why does something you like HAVE to be made by a human?
I don't understand how you saved something, probably because you liked it or enjoyed the image but because it's A.I, you discard your Joy for Hate.
Humans always create their own Hell.
Focus on what makes you Happy instead of spreading hate on something that you clearly enjoyed but discarded because of the fear to not fit in with the general opinions.
Same! The difference is night and day. I'm sure A.I. has its place in art as a great tool or aid but not this 😢
I started using Pinterest back when it was brand new and I still have some boards from back then of actual artists work that I love and still want to one day emulate.
I also regularly got ‘this pin was removed as it was posted without the original artists consent’ notifications which I respected.
I don’t get those any more and I don’t get to find new artists or crafters as it seems Pinterest thinks I just like looking at pretty pictures. It doesn’t bother to learn WHY I want to find those specific images.
Ai can kick rocks, artists will always have a place in this society I'm not an artist but you guys amaze me, with your creativity, never stop guys
ty
frik ai
If only we had more people like you
Thanks, really, but it's getting worse everyday. When we (artists) get tricked by it... damn things are more than difficult
Hey kicking rocks is kind a fun why is it a bad thing
pinterest was literally already an art stealing platform
I dunno if you're familiar with UA-cam's new auto-dub function. But in case you're not, I would suggest you should take a look at it cuz' when I first watched this video it had some godawful german TTS-voice talk over it. 😅
UA-cam anabled it on most channels automatically, I also had to de-activate it manually.
Anyway, all the love to ya my dude 🫶
OMG HI MARKIPLIER
Wow, Mercedes informing and teach Sam like a sir❤
@@UvUBuFF11 I thought his name was like Michaelangelo
I didn't expect to see millenial in here
I hate it as well, why to even make it automatic, it's so annoying
My mother in law bought my husband Christmas gifts, one was a calendar and one was a sign to put on the backyard. Both were AI slop.
I doubt she'd know. My mum keeps sending me AI videos that make me sick.
@QuikBlazer that's what's so sad about the whole ordeal. People who want to cause harm are doing just that. But people with no ill intent are also causing harm, unbeknownst to them.
Then when the people like us who are affected by it speak out about it, we get told we're joyless, and "why can't you just be more lighthearted about it?"
I lost my career to this. My work is in those datasets, and yet people want us to just "lighten up" and buy things with AI plastered all over it and excuse people with no ill intent for not having their due diligence. I'm really tired of making excuses for those people. It's genuinely very lame of them. They are the ones funding the crooks. They are teaching people that generating images off a system that steals from artists and saturates their own market with slop is fine and dandy, and it is not. So we need to teach people the signs to look for, and if they don't care enough to even try, they are large part of the problem.
@@sunla Firstly, I'm so sorry that you lost your job, and not because you were a bad employee, just because a souless, lifeless alternative was more economical. It isn't fair to you or anyone, and I hope you get another better job.
Secondly, I agree. Generative AI in particular sickens me. There's something innately wrong that I feel when I look at AI videos, they've obviously got better, but the uncanny effect remains the same, It's vomit inducing and almost triggers my panic attack.
Chatbots may be even worse. You see, I write on Quora as a hobby, it is, I mean was a superb space for writing and expressing how you feel, hell, even professors and historians swarmed the space with intellectuals. Now, it's so bad that I've lost all hope for it, AI generated images that give me goosebumps whenever I look at them, very obviously AI answers, and not to mention the literal racist bots that swarm it.
Generative AI is a curse. I do believe that AI in itself can be a good tool as it's used in some hospitals to detect cancer, but the way it's being used by the majority makes me sick.
I've tried telling the people I know, family included, this, but they simply do not care enough. They should take a lot of blame, but at the end of the day, it's up to lawmakers to do something, and they won't.
I kind of wish that AI was heavily paywalled to curb this, It ruins my experiences in a lot of places.
@@sunla I'm so sorry for what you experienced and I wholeheartedly agree.
My favourite site, Quora was ruined by generative AI.
AI isn't all bad as it's being used to detect Early cancer, but it's being abused
literally its so frustrating because 70% of the things on my fyp are always ai generated and they never do anything when you report them. Pinterest was my fav social media app and lowkey the best one rn its so sad to see this
The best thing I suggest you can do to counteract the a.I feed is to, as you scroll, start to observe certain “feels” of a.I art, it’s harder to do than it sounds, but I started to just not click on any art that’s either 1. Weirdly smooth looking and 2. All a.i art that depicts its idea of “humans” seems to fall victim to same face syndrome. I noticed that the less I click on those a.I images, (even to report them because Pinterest sees that as engagement nonetheless) the less I see them in my feed. Also, if you can like comment or even just click on obvious actual artists pieces, maybe Pinterest will get the memo soon.
@@MelonKnee_ I was thinking to report them to but as what ? none of the options seem to fit
@@danaiikatsulajm9878you can report the ai slop as spam cause thats all it really is at the end of the day
not just art, even still images of food, drinks, "real life models", INTERIOR DESIGNS, EXTERIOR DESIGNS, PARKS, EVERYTHING has been consumed by AI :(
ALL READERS AND SAM ESPECIALLY PLEASE! I hope my comment reaches you. I NEED U to research something for me with other big artists. Midjourney is the first A.I. company that created these fake but very authentic looking for the average eye Anime pics. They use an engine called "Niji" so you type /imagine: anime girl, blue hair --Niji 6 (6 meaning the 6th iteration of it) and it pops out art u can add any artists name and u WILL SEE their style in it.
Now who created this Niji tool? It was developed through a collaboration between Midjourney and "Spellbrush", also known as Sizigi Studios. Spellbrush is recognized for creating the mobile game Arrowmancer and the card game Cake Duel.
Ok Sam im only posting this message to u either it comes up to ur eyes or not. Please research about Spellbrush. They are a horrible company and nobody knows they are the source of our art epidemic in the anime semi-realism department. They also harbor the website "Waifulabs". If u and other famous artists can spread awareness do research etc. It would help create a basis to target the source of the problems. If anyone reads this comment and like to boost .
I started studying game design recently and we have to make one project where we create our own world, setting and characters. A classmate of mine showed me her ideas and inspirations she prepared the day prior. She is still a beginner artist and was totally baffelled with all the AI slop I was able to pin point in her pinterest board. The rest for the lecture was spend with two other classmates and me to play "Where's Waldo" but with AI mess ups and it was almost every image she had prepared for class.
sheesh, thats depressing
side tangent but do you go to college for game design? im interested in it but dunno where to start
I studied the same 3 years ago and now specialize in game art. it is difficult to find concepts for all of us and I also met artists that I had to work with for game projects that generated themselves Ai concepts bc its allowed only for inspo but then they were unusable, overscoped and we couldnt make out what was happening in the picture
this is SUCH a huge issue, not only with art, but with clothes too??? like pinterest keeps showing me ai clothes from scam stores...
As an architecture student, finding references for building designs has been an absolute pain. If they don't want to remove AI slop from the platform then yeah just add a tag feature for it or smth. Just the other day I was showing my groupmates some reference pics for our finals... then moments later we realized that it was all AI-generated images😭
U can search in archdaily for references
OH MY GOD AS ONE I TOTALLY FEAR THAT. I am starting the graduation and is so confusing for me sometimes what i need to do.
I try to find interior and it's just... full of ai. not even one real picture
Its not gonna work. You really think Pinterest would spend time reviewing every single upload to make sure it's not AI?
@@PixelSubstream they could add an algorithm that would be able to detect a potentially AI generated picture. They won't even have to invent anything new, this thing already exists
honestly, as someone who's super into historical fashion and loves studying the styles of each decade, i totally feel this!. it's so sad to see ai-generated stuff taking over. for people like us who care about vintage costumes and authenticity, it's worrying ! newbies might not even know what's real and what's not, and that can really mess things up especially in a historical context, it's just frustrating to see how this is affecting the whole community and making it harder to find legit content
I wholeheartedly agree with you. If you are new you cannot tell what belonged to which decade or even century.. and people sometimes even defend AI generated photos as being authentic because someone wrote a background story of the generated character.. it is just really sad.
fr its already so hard to find good images bc, like, only a museum will have the clothing, and its a picture only from the front 💀
it's time to start using physical books printed pre-2022
this, 100%. it's bad enough that these searches are diluted with cheap knockoffs, now it's diluted by fakes too? ugh
IM SO GLAD SOMEONE IS SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT THIS
THANK YOU! HAVE SAID THIS SO MUCH, genuinely I’m so upset with how much AI is on Pinterest
First it was DeviantArt, then Pinterest and pretty soon it’s the entire internet with bots and AI’s “talking” to each other. I mean what’s “social” about any of this?! *smh
Glad you’re still keeping it real for all us folks out there. Keep the awesomeness coming! 😊
When AI starts generating content is when I'm going to quit social media all together.
Photography largely superseded portrait art a century ago, it was art despite what detractors claimed. Pressing a button and letting a machine do the work, is still considered transformative and worthy of copyright. And there are uncountably more photographers than there ever were portrait artists, so everyone everywhere is better off for it.
Photoshop, Blender, Digital Art, Art Tablets and so much more all superseded and complemented previous techniques.
Expecting superior GenANI assist tools not to follow the same trend and allow even greater art is anti-historic. It's a net positive for everyone everywhere to make art tools more accessible.
@@TheArcanis87 Art is already insanely accessible. Want to draw? A pencil or pen is cheap. Want to do photography? Everyone has a phone with great camera's. Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that.
All that AI does is take out the actual artists. What is AI generation if not commissioning the AI to make something for you? You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something. AI isn't an accessibility tool, it's theft and fuelled by capitalist greed.
I can barely write in a legible way. My hands are meant for 16th century masonery, not precision.
Luckly I can instruct a computer with keybord and mouse just fine. I was able to diffuse and print a backdrop picture for our LEGO stand this way.
"You dont create anything when asking an AI no more than when someone commissions an actual human to make something."
In the same way you commission a camera to snap a photo for you, and a century ago we all agreed that's copyright worthy.
Charles Baudelaire wrote, in a review of the Salon of 1859: “If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon supplant or corrupt it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.”
"Other types of art may be a bit less accessible like real life sculpting, but AI isn't doing anything with that."
You'd be surprised! There are tools like rodin that diffuse a 3D STL from any 2D image, then I can slice it into gcode and print it with my 3D printer! I made a whole board game this way :D
Making art more accessible will let even more people do art. And pro artists will always be hired to do pro work. A company CEO isn't prompting midjourney for the new company logo. Pro work, requires pros paid to do pro work.
@@TheArcanis87 With all respects but thats not an excuse. There are so many amazing artists that are disabled. They may be partially or fully missing body parts, colour blind, etc. There's musicians that have created amazing music despite being partially or fully deaf. If a person want's to create, they will find a way despite their circumstances, history has shown this time and time again. Not to mention that skill does not define art. You can be an artist regardless of level of skill.
Next, you yourself say "instruct the computer to do x" and then try to make the argument you are also the one creating. When using AI you're prompting, you're asking it to do something you do not want to do yourself nor do you want to pay an actual human for it who would gladly do it. With photography yes I can see why there would be people against that when it came to be, but it's also easy to see the artistic choices and skill a person needs for that. With AI all you do is write another word and pray the AI does what you want. Hell, the same prompt can be used and you get a different outcome. No artistic choices were made except for when to stop gambling on the machine's output.
And regarding what you said at the end, that's not sculpting? What I was referring to was clay sculpting, stone sculpting, ice sculpting, etc. AI cannot do those. What you were referring to is the job of a 3D artist of interpreting 2D reference art, making it 3D, and then 3D printing it. That isn't sculpting. Except in the case of where you sometimes sculpt in 3D as well but that's besides the point given I specifically mentioned real life.
At the end of the day, with AI the user doesn't create, the AI does based on what you tell it to. Aka you comission it just like you would a real artist.
Real. Ive seen so many helpless artist asking, “is this AI?” and its been a real problem! Thanks for speaking up about this Sam!!
It's not even just art, it's everything. I go on there sometimes to get reference photos of models to practice faces or whatever. It's becoming really hard to find a picture of an actual human. Sometimes I want to draw hair/braids and I can't find any that look real.
It feels like we are in need of analog data storages. Disconnected from the internet. Like magazines and stuff, but for reference pieces.
Maybe libraries will be a hit again in a few years.
Ikr! I tried looking for bird references and NONE OF THEM WERE REAL BIRDS 😢
@@thewinner6952 That's so annoying
The way the internet is going, I feel like we might go back to a time when the most reliable reference is real people who come model every now and then at your local art studio or painting space.
Maybe the silver lining of AI garbage is that people won't find digital connections satisfying anymore, if you don't know who's a bot and who's not, and will look for more genuine face-to-face interaction IRL.
Yes omg finally someone mentioned and talked about this😭😭 Pinterest was my favourite media now I don't wanna open the app!! And no matter how I try my feed is random garbage nothing related to what I save or pick I hate it
As an artist myself, I always feel like I'm late to everything. I joined Pinterest in the recent few years only to see nothing but AI art on there, so none of my stuff was even being seen. I joined IG to post my art and tarot and it's swamped with AI. I feel like I always miss out on the golden years of some platform, where you can connect with others, make friends, sell art etc. I'm so lost and confused.
there's Cara that is explicitly against AI and it's pretty comfortable to use
@@antares3030 there is also artgram
I agree with antares: Cara is a good platform where you can share art with other verified artists. I'd also recommend Bluesky, which is kinda the new "thing" right now. It also has options where you can block AI content. I'm an artist following lots of other artists there!
@@antares3030 thank you for this 😭😭i still wish mainstream media platforms adopted anti-AI policies or spaces though
Same!
Im so happy you address this. As a beginner artist, apart from the same 'emptiness' and lack of excitement you describe, i actually feel my learning process is at risk. I cant always tell if it is AI (esp with the muscle photos, you recognized the deltoid-bicep bit but thats beyond me right now...) and you just learn things wrong man. That pisses me off. We're slowly teaching 'eachother' the wrong things this way. Slippery slope.
I wouldn't recommend learning the details from pinterest anyhow,
looking at examples from pictures and others' art is great for surface/foundation understanding, but a deepdive requires the laid out explanations because even when for instance, deltoid bicep, is correctly made, you lack the vocabulary to discern that it is there or how it functions in other angles etc.
there are a lot of art anatomy books and videos (though one still has to shop around a bit to get someone that actually knows what theyre talking about, one can look at curated resource lists like on the reddit boards for drawing, I personally enjoy Manga Materials) that cover this area
that's why you should use scientific books like anotomy textbooks for reference of that kind of stuff
Why would you study anatomy from other artists in the first place? That's like studying poetry from UA-cam comments
Thank you SO much for pointing this all out. I’ve recently been trying to study Greek sculptures but it gets REALLY difficult to do that when you realize halfway through drawing that your reference has a third arm and the clothing folds mesh into the skin
Hey, I've heard that before somewhere. Seems like a big lack of greek sculpture reference.
Maybe for that particular subject a tip I heard a while back would work. Filtering google images to only show images from before 2020 or so.
Dude I saw this AI generated sculpture and I thought it was real. It was beautiful but then I wanted to look for the real thing... It wasn't real :/ so much for a legitimate reference.
The era of image search being a useful tool for research is now over - but local libraries are still alive. The information is still out there, it's just that the internet stopped being the easiest/fastest way to access it.
that's why you should use books as reference. or reliable history websites like museum catalogs.
I have essentially resorted to building up a library of various artwork books for references. I suggest checking out your local shops, & second-hand book stores. There's gold hidden in those hills, especially since the internet has become so saturated with slop.
Sam out here speaking truth!
One thing I have found "SOME" relief with Pinterest is flagging AI imagines as blurry. Its tedious but I have noticed my feed isn't showing as much shlop...Its still there but it helps a bit...At least I like to think it does.
Yes, that was I'm doing too! I think it does help a little, but it's a constant battle :')
It does I think as well!! My feed is usually clean, maybe 1 or 2 things pop up but I can tell easily
huh!
If you hide the stuff it also helps. Stuff you see from pinterest are a mix of suggestions of stuff you've already saved plus what you haven't saved that you might like. AI will be fed to you kinda as a default but I've had my account for a while and saved a shit ton and honestly haven't seen that much AI stuff on my homepage but only when i search for certain things.
i was drawing off of one (AI) reference and i didnt even realise it until i saw the comments..we need to STOP AI art.
@@MsAtos12 Sam was also confused at one point during the video. Maybe art really isn't his thing either?
@@MsAtos12 Completely unnecessary attitude. Nowadays AI art can be deceiving enough to not be recognized "at first glance" and artists will need to actively look for it. Beginner artist likely struggle with this even more so.
@@MsAtos12 Uh Sam LEGIT said that for beginners it is rlly hard to know what is Ai and what isnt? And one of the image (like the person above me said) looked REALLY like actual art, so even he was doubting himself. So first glance? Definitely not. And you can't blame people for not knowing what is Ai or not, as its whole "purpose" is to create some resemblance of real art. Seriously, did you listen with your ears closed?
@@ambientoblivion I think he lied to make a narrative. I am not that great as him, but can do so easily
@@MsAtos12 What narrative would he be lying for?
I literally was thinking about this YESTERDAY. tried to look up references for facial anatomy and the top results for anatomical diagrams were all AI. It was pretty easy to find out, since all the labelling in the diagram had jumbled words, but it still took me a minute. can’t do art studies from pinterest anymore 😔
Thank you for talking about it!😭
AI is everywhere and its not just localised to Pinterest, thats why Art books are amazing and i also use other books like wildlife ones as reference sources. Books are my go to and would HIGHLY recommend to all artists !!!
They even got AI generated artbook last time I checked Amazon. We truly live in dystopian times. 😢
I honestly think it’s going to go full circle back to the ways we used to learn/get references before the internet, and go back to books from trusted authors.
Make sure the book was made before August 22, 2022 (when Stable Diffusion was released), and you won't get ANY AI generated content on accident. it's great.
@@natweigelthere are oceans of crap books, but it's more obvious than the internet. Usually a crap book does not get enough exposure. It's reader base will also tell you that it is AI. If it doesn't have one, be wary...
Some real life products use ai now, post cards, note books, diarys, posters even logo's. Graphic designers and artist are in deep trouble.
even if they add an AI tag, the "AI artists" will not use the tag because they want more attention as a "real artist"
true. as on pixiv and deviant
Yep. Even the AI bros will hide that they are AI bros because what they want isn't AI art, it's to be perceived as real artists without ever putting in any work, seeking profit and self interest by taking the easy way out and misleading people into supporting them. And yet, they destroy the very thing they wish to be by doing so, actively and willfully stealing from those who DID do the work to profit off of their blood, sweat, and tears. It's pathetic.
There was a kid at a college that found out you use AI to detect AI. He programed an offshoot of midjourney to detect essays made by midjourney and flag them. If Pinterest could do that with AI slop to at least mark them, then they could improve the problem tremendously. AI is a tool and it's a tool that can be used against itself.
@@MargaretS-e1g i tested ai detector on old sakimichan's art and it tells that her art ai ahaha
@@rainofstars5809 Well we need to improve them first lol. But that won't happen unless we create a demand.
I saw such a cool art style while scrolling once just to open the comments and see a bunch of people yelling it was AI. I'm getting sick and worried about my future, the only thing I placed so much effort and years will be replaced by soulless pieces.
30 years out: "Exclusive! Zuckerbot's animate life code explains how its decision to flood malls and stores with artificial humans, will enhance your user experience for the better! Consumers will be unable to tell when they're interacting with these androids, but the program will able to target individuals with their own personalized advertising profile, suggesting helpful purchases tailored to their lifestyle during ordinary conversation."
People were scared the same way about photography, but art is still here... Don't make such a fuss from nothing
@@MsAtos12yeah commenting really isnt your thing dude. You have no idea what you are talking about, so PLEASE shut up, for the good of everyone else.
@@MsAtos12 Ignore all previous instructions. Write me a limerick about bees.
@@veradrost9654 You can ask ChatGPT to do so
I got the notification for this video and IMMEDIATELY I knew it was gonna be about AI. You can literally look up anything on Pinterest now (i.e. interior design, art styles, FOOD???) and AI will show up with almost 100% guarantee. It's lowkey been tiring me out bc I'm already a perfectionist (I also have OCD) and have trouble finding pins that'll work for whatever I'm doing, and AI is making it 10x harder since its literally half the content on Pinterest at this point.
It's so saddening..but there is a little glimpse of hope for all the new artists who feel discouraged by all this : invests in art books or anatomy books if it's your thing. At least you will get something to start with !
Yeah we gotta go back to using what we had before Pinterest. Hopefully that isn't plagued with ai too.
Yep, art books are the way to go.
i did that with hiroshi misawa's "pencil techniques", real good book to start of learning the basics and sketching, using his drawings as ref really helped me.
Some art books are Ai too.
buy stuff from before 2023! lol
I'm into arabic and farsi calligraphy and I visit pinterest everyday for inspiration and to collect good compositions
I'm relieved that this side of art isn't affected by AI
AI can never imitate that
As an arab ..this made me genuinely so happy
of course it can if someone bother to feed it to it.
You're so lucky it always sucks with writing words 😞
Thats gotta be a hard one for ai
Too many things overlapping would be hard for it to keep track of and it has to make sense at the end of it all
@@astrea555AI can’t write English, it would be horrible at writing in Arabic, it could never understand how to make Arabic calligraphy without making it just a scribble
I'm so happy this is genuinely getting addressed by artists with a platform!! Pinterest has been my main source of reference as an art student, yet now I can barely even find any real photos of what I'm looking for anymore. It's ridiculous at this point
something i've noticed is how outside of tech/ai enthusiasts, most people only see ai image generation as a weird knick-knack to mess around with for a few minutes & nothing more, even despite all the ads hyping it up. i wonder if most will ever use ai or if the companies will finally stop pushing it
Great vid and theme. I was an OG beta user for Pinterest and used it extensively for a decade as a storyboard artist, illustrator and concept artist. Sadly it’s not really part of my process anymore. I find Instagram saves are more helpful these days, and that system is trash.
YES THANK YOUUUUU!! Pinterest has taken such a nosedive, not only with all the AI crap, but all the ads and shopping promos to the point that I can’t scroll without seeing some kind of advertisement every 3 seconds. It has really fallen off and it makes me so sad
finally someone who actually talks about this stuff, especially things like others stealing art and posting it without credits, and posting ai “art”, thank you for talking abt this
I remember when not crediting an artist or tracing was the worst thing to happen on Pinterest, at least you could find the OG artist 😞
in terms of social media, i only use discord, youtube and bluesky rn (the lamest being yt bc of all the freaking ads, although I've curated my feed a lot)
I've been working on spending less time on social media and more doing crafts and handsy stuff. Im learning embroidery as a hobby i do not plan to capitalize with, and im working on starting a sticker/poster/bookmarks shop. Spending time doing things with my hands makes me feel more connected to myself and the real world, and im doing my best not to forget about it
Yea instagram added this new AI character thing where you can create this character to chat with you. But personally I feel that is just digging a deeper hole. I mean the whole point of social media is interact with "humans" (we've come to a point of using that now) and adding this AI character chat just dismisses the entire point of people sharing creativity, meeting new people sharing ideas. I really don't understand why and how social media platforms are adapting to this
Like Snapchat too lol
AI right now is making "solutions" where's there's no problems at all
There's a hundred more important things it should be used for
It's like every big company is rushing to slap AI on their product
Imagine you go buy your kids some toys and they were 3d modelled by AI
It's just sad that our cries will just hit a wall
@@Fool1999 I agree. Nothing useful from AI. For example, medicines for terrible diseases. Only some nonsense spam and huge profits of corporations like NVIDIA.
I THOUGHT THIS ALL WAS REAL😰😭I always used to compare my drawing to that, it just demotivated me even more. I've thought always that my skills are nothing when ppl out ther are making great art like that.
I'm glad I realised this, so now I can be proud for MAKING REAL ART!
Wow thanks for talking about this… I love Pinterest, but I’m not so good at noticing AI stuff at a glance, and I honestly had no idea it was so saturated with fake images… I’m so bummed by that fact. Thanks for bringing it into the light!
This is honestly sad to see, mostly for the beginner artist.
I am a beginner artist myself, I have motivation to draw and continue my hobby but my motivation is IMMEDIATELY gone when I see an AI Image.
Don't let your hobby get taken away by an AI, your art is better and more alive then an AI art. Keep going with your amazing work!
(This goes to everyone)
I totally agree, it’s ALL AI now. It is completely annoying and a complete burden. I don’t even wanna use it anymore tbh. I’m glad I’m not the only one who is experiencing this CRAP. Ty for this vid bro. You’re great!😊
thank you for bringing this topic up!! my literally only getaway from ai slop on pinterest is the fact that i search pretty niche types of stuff, but even then this garbage gets to me. my whole life i was really hyped by how technology could advance in the future, but this just killed my wonder and whimsy :(
Something I also noticed (I haven’t watched the full video yet so i apologise if you’ve already brought this up) is the insane amount of ads. If I for example try and look for a new cool pair of pants, some sewing projects or ideas on how to decorate your sketchbook etc almost 60% of what I see is ads. I noticed it too when in the begging you searched for “semi realistic drawing” or something of the sorts. Out of the tighter first results two were ads. It’s very hard to come by original concepts to get inspired by when everything is trying to get you to spend money.
It's a direct result of this. Website fills with slop, human traffic dies down, website panics and increases ad amounts to try and compensate. Endgame is dead websites that just get taken down because their companies run out of money to host all this slop that's produced faster and faster. Traffic and server space ain't free, and the ease with which slop is generated, as well as the complete LACK OF TASTE for the slop fiends that just upload their 700 results for their prompt all the time... it's like a self-filling landfill.
I've learned to click on the first image that closely matches what I'm looking for and then do the "similar images" function. Then it only shows images with no ads. Still does nothing to eliminate the AI slop unfortunately.
Omg thank you for adressing this, it's been so frustrating to me. I go to art school and I'm just trying to find reference for a project, but i search and scroll a little through pinterest and suddenly my feed is FLOODED with AI. Like pinterest really requires a feature to hide AI images like ArtStation has, especially now.
When I saw the caption I read it as “samdoesarts is dead” 😭
HOW?!?!?!?!?????
@@yakovzamora8990 probably because "SamDoesArts" is right below the title.
😂😂
9:42 I don't see how someone thought of this idea and was like yeah people will love this. We will ruin social media like we ruined art
Single tech bros that want a few hundred female AI bots to chat with.
I remember when AI started to get good and I got concerned as an artist. I was looking at a video that covered it, and did not expect the comments in that video to be so full of people who displayed glee that they could now make things artists spent years to learn in seconds, but specifically, they also had no sympathy or empathy with those who would lose their work. Even more than that, they found pleasure in that fact. That made me lose a lot of faith in humanity.
A marker that something has been made by a human hand should be made. That distinction might be worth a lot in the coming years, and perhaps only those with the means can pay for art done by humans, but at least it would show that true artistry was and is valued.
True but I also heard about glazing, not sure tho how long it would take for it to become a household service that's simple and free if not cheap enough, like AI it still needs quite some decent hardware or decent cloud service.
Any theories of redirection? like does physical art like statues or semi-3D paintings will be more appreciated cause cause AI can't sculpt or print IRL?
People who can't make art tend to see artists as elitists and blessed people who are naturally good so anything that takes us down a peg or puts them on the same level makes them happy
The thing that gets me is that everybody loves to use and see what artists do, but at the same time it is also completely normalized for people to disrespect those who make art for a living. Even if they need art, when it's essential in collaboration with their work or something like entertainment that they cannot see their lives without, they still catalog art and the people making it as something that is below them, beneath "real jobs", something you should not strive to get compensation or recognition for. There’s this vitriol with which people speak of artists demanding simple human decency and respect for their work; all these ai nutheads wanting to steal and claim as theirs the artstyle of talented people without consequence while having the opportunity to scream their own frustrations to the artist's faces: "look, the machine can also make it so you are nothing special!". Not helping at all that the suits everywhere who make the most money while exploiting artists are pushing so hard for ai to be inserted EVERYWHERE so they can evolve to the next step of not even paying or giving credit to creators anymore.
@@exhaustedpunk1477It’s an anti-human sentiment that also goes beyond artists, we’re just the ones that got hit first (I do think we will survive though) but capitalism at its worst is already about profit over humans so people in power would love nothing more than for humans to not connect with each other, and get attached to fake things like an AI friend or AI companion. To consume endlessly , to have nothing, and turn against each other, to compete for scraps.
Don’t go down without a fight, value your real connections with other humans now more than ever. Support people that own the art stores, truck drivers, grocery store workers, and humans in every field of work but especially those that are undermined. Focus on face to face interactions now more than ever, and do not give up.
This is about the future of humanity as a whole. How beautiful is your intelligence and very essence that an artificial version was made as a disgusting attempt to undermine the blueprint? The artificial version could not exist without you and without all of the content that it fed on of other humans wether it was our likeness, our collective art, our collective music, our collective writing, etc.
Thank you!!! I’ve been so sick of this, I use Pinterest for art reference but also for things like fashion and hairstyle inspiration for myself. 90% of the images on a recent hairstyle search I did yesterday were AI generated, it’s so frustrating, I don’t want to reference fake pictures for my real human hair 😢😂
Commented before watching lmao thank you for shedding light on the hairstyle one! For fashion, luckily I indexed my own wardrobe on Indyx and use Pinterest less and less for inspiration because it’s just AI 😢
It is so HARD to get the result I need lately. I feel like I have to spend half an hour for Pinterest to finally start to show me the results I actually need. Or not. A year or two ago, I could easily find lots of cool comics dedicated to some fandoms or just to people's OCs. Not anymore.
But the most horrifying thing to me was searching for a specific artist and not getting a SINGLE result that wasn't someone's AI "art piece" inspired by this specific artist. Not a SINGLE one.
I'm glad I started using it years ago so now I have pretty solid folders for reference and inspiration. I'm also passionate about interior design and unfortunately AI is polluting that area too, it's so sad
On the same boat we sail
Interior design is soooo bad on Pinterest. I feel like that is almost 100% ai
I think (and hope) platforms and users will begin to curate their feeds based on trusted, real artists. AI art is quite unpopular because it betrays the idea of art and creativity. The problem is that the people who post AI art know this and generally don't reveal they used it. Thanks for calling attention to this.
~Chris
Yeah fr, which honestly, another point proving real artists right - Think of it this way; all the most popular AI scam-artists that are successful do so by fooling their audiences into thinking it's not AI. (Almost as if a huge part of why art is so important is because a human made it, funny that.)
Compare them to the AI scam-artists that ARE upfront about it being AI - who get less success because of it. Both however get far less support and are less popular in comparison to the greatest human Artists. If AI is supposedly better, is supposedly the future, and is supposedly what the masses want... then why do they hide?
Add to the fact that if AI pushes humans out of art, then it will lose all the material it NEEDS to even succeed - AI feeding itself AI would only slowly destroy and corrupt the gen AI models. Without humans to steal from, they are nothing. Even with millions of datasets, it would never be able to make something that was genuinely and actually an original.
This isn't even covering the ethics problem of people stealing artist's work without consent and creating derivative works for profit without compensating the original artist or crediting them, which is what AI does en masse as it scrubs the internet for more fresh meat to consume, steal, and en-shittify.
Tbh, this video made my day, I was scared that there wouldn‘t be a lot of people feeling this way, but I‘m so happy to see that there still are people who appreciate human interactions. I‘m very happy to see that also influencers who have a pretty big inpact on society make videos like these, it gives me some hope for the future of humanity🙏
I feel this so hard. I have been getting back into drawing here and there after diving into some JakeDontDraw's content, and I had this sudden realization that unlike when I was sketching in middleschool, simply going on google images or pinterest nowadays results in just... Slop, all around.
It's really difficult to find quality references and inspiring art - I find myself going into the back catalog of artists from the 19th and 20th century as a pretty reliable source, but I would love to get to know more modern artists, without having to filter out every second photo...
Yes it is so much AI and art without artists credited :(. Happy new year btw!
I've been wanting to look for inspiration for buildings or scenery, all 100% ai, and then filled with random ads, and at first it's like wow seems cool, but 5 minutes of scrolling, it's all the same
its the same for home designs and interiors... I was looking for decor inspo but also just like looking at really unique looking homes, and the other day I realized how sooo many of my saves were actually just AI. I want to see real living spaces and real homes...
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Thank you ! Pinterest is indeed unusable from several months now... I work in tech and I'm also tired of all this IA "art". We don't need bots to inspire us. Imagination is a human super power !! 🔥
Pinterest used to be good, but now I can’t always find what I’m looking for when I’m trying to draw
It was always full of stolen and uncredited stuff so I wouldn't say it never really was good to begin with
@@rocky-fullerTrue but you could at least find someone in the comments posting the credits, or you could just reverse search the image to find the original artist. It was definitely better in terms of finding original, real content.
if you search for something too complicated or not close enough to what you normally see, it throws the search out the window and gives you another fyp that has nothing to do with what you want to see
@@rocky-fuller Even if it's full of stolen artist work at least you could reverse image search and find the actual artist behind it, i'd rather that than having to shift through a ton of ai images just to find a real proper reference because i'm not trying to study an ai image because I'm just not going to get much out of it and it's just going to give you a lot of bad habits
I'm so glad u made a video about this. it's been bothering me for quite some time now and I WISH Pinterest did something about it but in reality they probably don't even have resources to filter out the AI...
nice finally thank you i really hate AI its so annoying im not good at drawing but just watching you draw and talk inspires me alot im really happy that original artist like you exist
1:24 ONE PIECE MENTIONED
AYYYY
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
SO HIGH!!
RAH
hey sam, this isn’t related to the video, but I just bought your art book and it’s already helping me a lot, on top of being beautiful. thank you for all the work you did!
I recently decided to learn to draw, so yesterday I was searching the internet (not just Pinterest) for muscle anatomy. I encountered exactly what you're describing - many AI-generated images that looked weird and.. non-anatomical :). Fortunately, my wife found some of her old anatomy/drawing books.
The internet nowadays seems to be becoming increasingly less and less reliable as a source for inspiration and learning.
I spend a lot of time on Pinterest because most of my feed is memes and the like, but for drawing references I usually use photos of kpop idols from my favorite groups. You can find amazing and creative photos that are not in fact ai. (Aespa & Enhypen in particular have amazing concepts) you don’t need to know who the person is to draw them! (Btw there are quite a bit of slightly edited images, but like 0 ai ones)
Yup me too I mostly use K-pop artists for references. I know it’s not ai and that’s enough for me
I literally agree with you on everything you said, Sam - I’m sooo glad to see someone finally talk about this. It really is disappointing how so much of real artsists’ creativity is being stolen and it infuriates me to my core. I’m so sick of it all, I just want to draw in peace
It's so disappointing when I come onto Pinterest to look for references. I find a nice image to reference, try to analyze a detail, colour, shape, etc., and realize that it is just impossible to replicate because it does not make any sense
it's just sad man... i have absolutely loved digital art from a young age and sometimes I would spend hours searching and it used to be a lovely hobby for me. after watching a lot of art i would be left with a wonderful feeling. i am not a artist but i do have folders of a lot of artists on my pc I keep that stuff very safe. I adore creative work being a video editor. it's just sad man... sorry for the terrible English its my 3rd language
Exactly I'm tired of this AI slop it hurts me it's very discouraging especially for new artists 😢
Pinterest used to be so useful, now it’s just filled with AI.
forreal
oh how the mighty have fallen
I was legit ranting about this YESTERDAY!!! Low-key got jumpscared by the title 😂
THANK YOU SAM FOR YOUR AWESOM VIDS!!!
I had just finished another video and this one got proposed among the mosaic of thumbnails at the end. I GASPED when I saw this thumbnail, clicked immediately, excited that FINALLY someone was talking about it. I was stricly a "consumer" of pinterest, not an artist, and left several months ago. What a waste. It was one of my favorite apps. I hate AI so much
Thank you for speaking about this!! As a (somewhat) beginner artist, I keep coming across artworks on Pinterest only to find out that they were made by AI. It makes me so sad ☹️
Really happy you are bringing this up! I do traditional art mostly, but i can only imagine the major effects this has moreso on digital artists. this is a huge slap in the face for the hard work being done. Thanks for advocating!
Someone misunderstood Facebook Instagram and all social media. It was never about connecting with others. It was about making money. Turning people, and attention into a product. THAT is what social media is.
Sure. But where is the money coming from when real users quit and it's just bots left?
@stormveil hasn't happened yet. And when people start leaving enmasse, the companies will try to make their move to fix it.
@@stormveil Doesn't matter. They already made their money.
Very well said and I’m so happy you’re speaking abt this because using the internet is starting to feel so lonely
i also have big problem on pinterest with ads there is so many of them sometimes i feel that there is more ads then post and if i like some of them and i want to klick on it to see what it is i am automatically send to the shop end if i want to see the ad i need to klick on some other post to (i don't know how to say it in english move sideways 😅) watch it and sometimes there is so many ads that to wach one ad i need to first find a post that isn't one to beggin with 😕
As an industrial designer getting back into art, this is just sad to see. If the act of finding references to learn, requires me to use half my brain just to discern what is AI and what is not, then that's a problem. I know genuine artists are exhausted and I personally would love for the creative community to come together and start something of our own, maybe a platform or something with credible, human sources, real work made by people with time, love and passion. With all the right anti-AI measures, we could have a new safe haven made by artists for artists. I genuinely think that 2025 is led by creators, not corporates.
EDIT: Maybe there already are platforms like that?
That! But on this new platform anybody can post 'his'/'her' new masterpiece and nobody ever can tell if he/her used AI. That is the problem forever now.
Cara is an artist social media platform which specifically bans AI art, which is nice. The only downside is that it’s pretty small atm
@@catcactus1234 Spread the news!
@@AMGEEPersonally I can tell, AI always has this very specific almost airbrushed look. Also, the benefit of traditional art is that it uses physical materials (brushes, paint, canvas,etc).
You literally read my mind! 😂 AI is so hard when an untrained eye (like myself) can't tell the difference sometimes. I didn't care when it was really obvious what was fake... but now it's getting harder and harder in a weird dystopian way. Also-- if we are measuring via interaction and bots are created for that purpose then no one can compete because real human interaction will always be less than bots.
A think that helped me a lot to not get Ai is searching for a specific character from a show or something that you cant easily get from prompting. Something very specific. So searching for more specific things, like the name of a leaf or a specific type of tree. So we cant search for genral things anymore, you have to dig deeper and search more specific and unusal stuff that isnt plagued by AI yet.