The Signature Of AI Art

Introduction

This is inspired by the meme my friend Rochelle shared which is the main image for this story.

I create a lot of AI Art mainly for my Vocal Stories and I share a lot on Pixabay.

I receive a lot of criticism for using it, and recently somebody said they wouldn't a story of mine because it had AI-generated art and was therefore a definite dangerous scam.

So What Happened And Why?

Well, it wasn't a dangerous scam, and someone pointed out that it was just a generated image and did not affect the content of the article. The person went on and read the article and complained no more.

This is a piece about why I work with AI-Generated Art and even if you don't read it you can see that I have used AI-generated art in the main image design.

The thing is, generally inanimate things work, but animals and humans are given extras that they shouldn't have. I recently got a great pirate picture but one of the pirates had three legs.

In animals dogs, horses and cats often have extra legs, and people's fingers often look like bunches of intertwined worms. I usually just delete pictures like this, but that is the thing with AI-generated art, it just takes a moment to create another one, and it is virtually free to do.

While the faces on this are ok, the finger looks like it is grafted to her face and the arm part at the bottom of the picture is nothing more than a blob. I did use the top part of this for a Vocal story.

This is a great example of the messiness of finger production. This was for a nightcafe piece based on pie, but the fingers and forks are a total mess. This was done for a nightcafe challenge about Pie.

The thing is, if you want a perfect picture it has to be a real artist or maybe a photograph. Sometimes when I generate a picture for a story it hits the first time, but more often than not it results in many generations before I get something that I find acceptable.

Many times I have to scour Unsplash or Pixabay looking for a royalty-free picture. I have been told over and over that I am stealing from artists by using an AI generator. I do not believe that as I have to take what I generate and cannot fine-tune it to ensure that animals have four legs and people have four fingers and a thumb on each hand.

I have AI and Photgraphs on my Pixabaty site. There are four hundred images, maybe a hundred are photographs. Eleven Thousand downloads have resulted in a single two-dollar tip.

I actually put them there to give people the opportunity to have a few more royalty-free images for the price of an acknowledgement. I am unaware of any of those downloads that have resulted in more visits for me, but the main point is allowing my creations to be used.

So, The Signature

Most AI Art looks good from a distance, but then when you zoom in there is an absolute plethora of devils in the detail. If you don't look too closely you will probably have a hugely satisfying image.

This is another that looks fine then you realise that the woman has only one leg. The top half of the picture looks fine, but it does carry the AI Art Signature.

I'll finish with an image that is OK because it has no people or animals to make it faulty, almost like real life.