My Work To A.I. Tests

I am not a fan of A.I.
It only steals and puts use creators out of work. It also makes people INCREADIBLY lazy.

So by all means, feel perfectly free to bash this post. As a creator that has had (and still has) his art stolen by these programs, I'm in full support of banning the technology.

Now that is said, I'll explain why I'm posting this. As I've stated, my art has been stolen by a.i. programs. How much? I'm not sure. They seem to be stealing mostly my old art and most of it seems to be from my print on demand stores like RedBubnle, TeePublic, ShirtPunch, etc. Others seem to be from my Instagram and profile pics I've used in the past.

So screw it.
They've already stolen them, so I might as well use it as well. Just to see what's possible. Using only my already stolen art, I ran three images through an a.i. program's image-2-image generator. I will not mention the name, so don't ask.

The Panda is the gamer pic I created for Microsoft's Xbox One. The program's auto-prompt kept swapping the white and black fur. Other than that, no prompt changes made. It still didn't do too well with the teeth, but it came scary close

Then there's my old 2005 drawing of my character: SKIN
I had to change a fair number of it's prompts to get the hands, his skin color, and the background corrected. I added the text, my logo, and the circles.

Lastly, there's the more recent drawing of the same character. Same deal as above, but without a background. I had to edit his left nip (on your right) via the HiPaint app on my phone. I also added the circle, logo, and text.

I did not pay for any service to make these. That alone makes this tech more worrisome. Meaning anyone, including young kids, can steal and repurpose our art!

I don't mind a.i. being used for kick bashing concepts and concepting ideas. But it should NEVER be used for any final product!