Comment found in my post about how my art got put into AI generator (instant block) - and clear indication that AI bro's don't understand AT ALL how ALL human learning and creativity works. Human's taking inspiration to develop a SKILL that is their own to make something new through their own lence of experience and understanding is not theft.

We don't copy each brush stroke with a printer and then clame it as our own like some brainrot AI does. Real artists learn and give credit.

#fuckAI

Please help me ALT TEXT this monstrosity.
#alttext4me

@hiisikoloart

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Toot by Uriel Fanelli
20h ago @ [email protected]
@ hiisikoloart you are so sad because you are doing low-quality art, and you realized that Al can do the same as you, but cheaper.
I had a look in your "artist" page. Do you really think ANYTHING you did is "original", and "not stolen" from any other artist? I can list DOZENS of styles and techniques and artists you "took inspiration" from.

@hiisikoloart
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Comment from Uriel Fanelli @ [email protected] at @ hiisikoloart you are so sad because you are doing low-quality art, and you realized that AI can do the same as you, but cheaper. I had a look in your "artist" page. Do you really think anything you did is "original", and "not stolen" from any other artist? I can list dozens of styles and techniques and artists you "took inspiration" from.

Uriel Fanelli's profile photo is Zorg from the Fifth Element.

@magdalenahai
Thank you! I added your ALT to the post. (:
(My eyes are very blurry so was hard to discern the words and brain didn't allow repeating sentences.)

By the way guys - don't go harass this person. Just block them like I did.

I am not butt hurt by being called "low quality artist". In fact, I don't mind that at all since it comes from someone who fundamentally doesn't understand art. Which is so sad for him.

All human made art has value. It comes from the time spent on the piece, creating something. It isn't about how something looks in the end, it is about the journey. The learning. The feelings put into it. The humanity.

#fuckAI #NoAI

To add - creating ANYTHING with your own two hands is incredibly healthy for human brains. Spending hours in a piece builds pathways, keeps the brain happy - while using AI is literally doing the opposite to people.

Older AI users are experiencing skill loss for most basic things they used to know, while young users NEVER DEVELOP THOSE SKILLS.

So be "radical" and do art. Do "bad" art. Just spend hours on that instead of doom scrolling or lining billionare's pockets with AI convo's.

#NoAI

@hiisikoloart
I don't even know if "low / high quality artist" means something. On fourse one can like or not someone's art which is subjective, but applying some objective trait to art seems so meaningless.

@stupeflo
It is meaningless, but a lot of people get stuck to the notion that they should be "good" and make the stuff they already find beautiful or desirable. Saying "make bad art" can help them realize that to get to that goal, they need to make stuff that isn't "there yet".

Every beginner who picks up a pen, or any medium where their brain and hands or bodypart do the work - is an artist billion times more valuable than AI slop. (: They just got to start from beginning.

@hiisikoloart @stupeflo Watched a short documentary about how a classically trained painter got bored of painting with all the colours. Instead, she switched to a pen and paper, drawing small stories with only one colour. Those were meant to be a stress relief, but later the drawings got more known than her all paintings. That is one example of an artist doing things "badly" and getting a great result.

Who she was? Tove Jansson.

@autiomaa @stupeflo
I have a weird moomin phobia, but even I recognize how absolutely true this is. <3

@autiomaa @hiisikoloart @stupeflo I was just thinking this morning how I make zines with "crappy" drawings and quilts that are considered to be fine art and everything in between. To me, it's all art. I try not judge where it falls. I can't tell what work is essential. It's all essential.

Hope this makes sense. I still haven't drunk all my tea.

@autiomaa @hiisikoloart @stupeflo Who says Tove Jansson got tired of painting? I doubt it.

#moomin

@reimamak @hiisikoloart @stupeflo During the wartime, overall stress was too much that Tove Jansson stopped painting. That was combined with family issues since her father supported Germany and Tove was against the war. That was mentioned on a video that references Finnish book about Tove Jansson's history. She later went back to painting, but it was a period in life when things were difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbx75zuP6Vk

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@autiomaa @hiisikoloart @stupeflo Summarizing Tove Jansson's life and career in a few sentences is a bad idea. :-)
She made her living as a magazine illustrator at a very young age. She was good at it.
@hiisikoloart I'm seriously considering adding “low-quality artist” to my bio now.
@jalwelagi
As long as it's human-made "low quality artist" is a badge of high honor! :D
@hiisikoloart Next step will be, of course, start publishing pictures with #LowQualityArt
@hiisikoloart that dude has multiple subdomains so he can keep being a duchebag to all new audiences.

@aqunt
I blocked the domain as well. If he appears again, I will block those too. Takes like a second and only he would be wasting his time.

So sad that instead of connecting with other humans, he chooses the lonely life of a troll. May he get the life he is creating. Karma is already clearly in action there.

@hiisikoloart
Feels like a very fitting avatar he's chosen for himself there.
@gwendolenau
I don't know what the picture is supposed to signify, could you educate me? (:
@hiisikoloart
It's the unhinged villain from 'The Fifth Element' (played in a wonderfully over-the-top performance by Gary Oldman).
*spoiler alert*
The character ends up destroyed by his own creation.
@gwendolenau
Ah, I've never heard of that. Thank you for explaining. (: And that...is indeed very fitting picture.
@hiisikoloart
Silly but very fun movie. *All* the actors are playing it over-the-top, in all the best ways 🙂
@hiisikoloart what an absolute garbage person. 😔

@magdalenahai
Yup, a sad individual with no desire to connect with people so they defend machines and billionares who own those machines instead. It must be a lonely life to be like that, so feel sorry for him.

May he have the life he deserves.

@hiisikoloart blocking was the right call. AI bros really think that we can't be inspired by other styles.

Like do you know how many variants of fantasy stories you can get before you start seeing similar storylines? Art is the same.

And your art is amazing. And yes I might be a bit biased since I'm your friend and commissioned you for a lot of things. But hey, even with the bias, I know quality when I see it.

@MisWiredKE
The best way to learn is to try to re-make what we see. That' why old masters, before photography copied the nature they saw before them - and they learned from people before each other. Yet, we can see distinct differences between each and every single artist!

I am not hurt by this troll. I know my worth and the worth of my art. (: Also, thank you for the compliments!

To this guys pain, I shall do art today. :P

@hiisikoloart

He's a misogynistic gaslighter who thinks labelling his mouth-diarrhea "sarcasm" excuses his bullshit.

@PeterLG
Nothing excuses blatant trollisms.
Also, if he thinks that it is "cheap" to make art with an AI generator that is using potable water, making habitation on this planet worse, and aids only the billionare facists who want people to stop making art because it is the singlemost powerful thing to connect each other - he is going to be lonely, and that loneliness is of his own making.

Which is sad. This guys are just...sad.

Let's all make art today. (:

@hiisikoloart I'm genuinely sad for this person. What a cold system of values they must have.
@nihkeys
Yeah. Must be a lonely, sad life.
@hiisikoloart sadly there are people who copy every stroke and then sell that picture as their own creation

@alchemicacht
Yup, those people are copyists and art thieves. Even a skilled art thief is still a thief.

AI sloppists are the least skilled, least intelligent, least able to understand art - but are still thieves.

To be artists is to make something of yourself, and to know yourself is to learn, and to learn is to look at art from others as you get to recognize what you like, what you don't, what inspires you, and what resonates within you. (:

But I'm preaching to the choir here. (^_^)*

@hiisikoloart

That person writes with the sole intention of hurting. If they hadn't used AI as their weapon of choice, it would have been something else.

@iju
Yup. And he missed the mark.
Being called bad at art is a badge of honor because it still means I am making the art, and all art is valuable. (:

@hiisikoloart What a hateful comment. Sorry you had to go through that.

I really like the maps on your page. Keep it up!

@marumuju
I feel more sad for this guy. He is clearly a pitiful, lonely person who will only attract what he is putting out. I blocked him right away, so no damage done - I just wanted to help people to block him as well. (:

Thank you so much for the compliments. I love making maps and hope to increase the amount map of commissions once my comic book is out. (:

@hiisikoloart
Speaking as (primarily, I have other creative pursuits) a writer, my take on is is that, yes, all new creators imitate to learn our craft, sometimes even to the point of repainting or retyping other's work. But even the most slavish and early imitations also have part of US, our ways of thinking, our experiences, our emotions; the unique products of our hands and minds, and not just a regurgitated mush of other copied product.

@hiisikoloart

I just can't really get my head round someone waking up in the morning and thinking this is how they will spend their day.

The breadth and depth of mental illness in the world is shocking.

make MORE art.

❤️

@dar
yeah, it is sad...

I wish you a not-sad day. <3

@hiisikoloart grrrrrrrrr 🤬

Art, creativity, literature, music are amongst the most valuable things in society

Ai art (etc) is just theft
There is no creative involvement, no connection to the medium, no learning, no understanding….. nothing.
Except emptiness

@hiisikoloart What an incredibly sad comment. Making art connect us to ourselves and each other and the world. Imagine being a person who'd rather just push a button instead.

@molybdomantic
It feels so bleak and depressing to even play with that hypothetical in my head. O.o Without art and writing, I don't think I'd be alive. They have helped me through so many tough times that would have otherwise drawn me into depression.

It is so alien to think there are people who don't realize that the process of art is the vital part - not the end result. (^_^)*

@hiisikoloart wow, what a dick that Uriel person is. Also, it is fitting that their profile picture is Zorg, who is a fraudulent art dealer that actually makes a pact with the most evil being in the universe in order to obtain power, taking advantage of indigenous peoples in the process and attempting to fuck everyone over at every turn.