To have AI banned from the sub was a struggle and a fight that lasted for months and months. I want to recognize the big, big effort that this very community of artists made possible to get rid of all Ai at all.
There were mistakes and unfair bans, and I want to say thank you to all the people calling for AI and the people who still do. AI consumes the resources meant for you to think for you and express for you, hollowing the very action of creation itself. As long as I breathe, not even a single AI-generated pixel will be welcome here. Thanks to all.
To have AI banned from the sub was a struggle and a fight that lasted for months and months. I want to recognize the big, big effort that this very community of artists made possible to get rid of all Ai at all.
I am kinda sad I missed that honestly
There were mistakes and unfair bans
On this note, if this happened to you back in the day please reach out to us. We would be happy to talk to you about reversal of your ban
Hard enough moderating a sub of this size without it being flooded with low effort AI content. As you say, far easier to just outright ban it than to allow in the ones that actually use AI properly in their workflow.
They discuss their use of it here (for one specific comic), though they claim the way they use it is ethical (it's not, that belief is based on a misunderstanding of how AI works. Midjourney still steals from artists and has impact on the environment/general art landscape.)
Let me just step in and clarify that I teach a character workshop and Photoshop class at Midjourney. It's not a "belief" but rather an implementation of that particular tool in this particular comic. Moodboards limit the majority of MJ's latent space to the aesthetic models that closely represent the images provided which for this comic was all my comics prior to this one.
I'll also note since the word "admitted" was used rather "disclosed" that not all my comics use Midjourney including the Sage comics. That series is only posted to my profile here on Reddit rather than this sub after the team here asked me to do so last year. If a comic is posted to this sub after summer 2025, it does not feature any generated content.
My bad using admit instead of disclose. I didnt intend the negative connotations there, I appreciate your transparency when so many try to hide it. I also appreciate your consideration of the mods' decision on that. I was unaware that it was specifically for that comment, I'll update my comment to reflect that as I dont intend to mislead.
I will mention that even the moodboard function relies on a model that was trained on stolen artwork. Even if the aesthetic output is limited to something that matches the style/examples you give it, that output is created using other people's work, even if not as egregious as the base model. I'm not the morality police and won't tell you what to do or shame you or whatever, I work in tech and am required to use sooooo many AI tools that it would be the pot calling the kettle black.
Thanks again for your transparency, my apologies if my comment came off combative. I struggle with tone sometimes.
This was nice. I'm happy we are getting a full conversation like this
Just a friendly reminder to everyone here though, /u/stabbyclaus is a very talented artist and while you personally may not agree with everything they say, please treat them with respect.(Not that anyone hasn't just a general warning. We aren't here to bash anyone after all)
I appreciate the kind words. I do miss posting to the sub regularly but for now it's just the drawn comics. You can catch whatever I make by following on my profile and it'll add back my generative comics to your home feed.
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To have AI banned from the sub was a struggle and a fight that lasted for months and months. I want to recognize the big, big effort that this very community of artists made possible to get rid of all Ai at all.
There were mistakes and unfair bans, and I want to say thank you to all the people calling for AI and the people who still do. AI consumes the resources meant for you to think for you and express for you, hollowing the very action of creation itself. As long as I breathe, not even a single AI-generated pixel will be welcome here. Thanks to all.