I am against the art platform's allowance to post AI-generated images in the same space as real artist's. If a professional community is calling themselves "a portfolio platform designed to elevate and celebrate originality powered by a community of artists." (or smth like that) and at the same time is allowing co-existence of AI-generated images with human art without any control from platform's side – it is just supporting fraud and destruction of artists as a profession. Another part of the problem are people who don't mark ai-generated prompt as such to post it as their own on purpose, describing themselves as ARTISTS now.
Typing keywords into a program that spits out a pre-rendered mashup of all art it ever trained on with same keywords DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN ARTIST. It is illegal to represent yourself as such in this case by default, specially on portafolio-type platforms, since posting a piece under a name and choosing copyright option automatically breaks all current existing copyright laws known to men. Every monkey that gets an access to ai generator can now fish out a randomised pic, post it as theirs, even using watermarks! Yes! And representing themselves as some kind of new-age digital artists, fooling most of users and thriving upon their ignorance.
If a platform has no automated instruments like youtube to detect AI in posts and force this tag on pictures, separating them from actual artist's works, they are contributing to fraud.
All those cheap excuses like "our content guidelines do not prohibit the use of AI in the process of artwork being posted." are just a blabber to cover unwillingness to take action against ai-flooding of artist's communities, the answer should be simple – IT IS TIME TO UPDATE THOSE CONTENT GUIDELINES NOW. Yes, platforms and boards MUST protect creators from stealth and abuse, but adding "NOAI" tag or an option to "hide AI-generated art" is half-assed, it won't save us, since yet there are no automated instruments to ACTUALLY detect and separate AI-generated art from the real one. SHAME. We need art community platforms to protect artists (to whom those platforms owe their entire existence) from being used for generating AI images, and NOT letting AI images be uploaded there AT ALL.
Let AI platforms be created, in all their thousand-fingered and multi-phalanx splendor! Just keep this abomination apart from actual artist's work. AI might (and obviously eventually will, no doubt) learn to create flawless images, however people should be given a chance to choose what kind of art they want to contribute to and inspire/get inspiration from. Soon enough ai-generated images are going to overflow web so badly, there will be no chance do dig out actual living and breathing artist's works if something won't be done about it RIGHT NOW.
AI-generated images are created to replace artists (and pretty much any other creative professionals) purposely and shamelessly. This is inevitable, however it is up to us whether to go down in silence or fight back.
