Note to anyone who buys art from an artist: DO NOT EVER RUN THE ART THROUGH AN AI-PROGRAM! It will change details and destroy the art AND feeds that art into the program to be stolen over and over again!
To do this is to allow the theft of the artist's work.
Sincerely: Artist whose map just got absolutely ruined by AI "filter" and is shared in instagram with all the million mistakes that makes my skills look absolute shit. Plus the theft thing.
I am so so sad.
Update: The client has been contacted, the problem is being handled. Hopefully the post comes down and corrections will be made and I should also get my credit for the unfiltered, unedited, complete map that did not go through any changes. The author claims their PA did it with Canva background remover tool (which uses AI) and did not intend to do harm.
This was against their contract no matter what.
I will need to put this to bed now, because it ruined my day and depleted my energies. (*_*)
Uodate 2: The post IS down, and the author is extremely apologetic for what happened. It really seems that her PA did all this themselves, without input from the author who did not know/notice what had happened close to the eve of her book release.
I do not blame the client for this, she is genuely nice person who did pay me fairly and loved my work. This is also why this whole thing was so confusing.
People make mistakes. Issue has been corrected.
I forgive her. The PA should have learned.
Note to those who may still be commenting and liking and sharing this conversation - I have muted the post for myself because there is so overwhelmingly many of you! Thank you for the support and all of the love. <3
But, if you were commenting interest in buying a map commission and I missed it - please, check my website for them: https://mxmilo.wixsite.com/hiisikoloart/fantasy-maps
And also contact me via email for a chat: [email protected]
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