Vicki Pelham 28 days ago

Thank you for adding this option. I put this information in my discretion, but this has a visual acknowledgement as well. AI has created a new category.

Charles Jones 27 days ago

I don't see how putting a few descriptive words in a program has much, if anything, to do with the creative process---at least visually. If you like descriptive words, write good prose or poetry. You'll find that isn't easy either, unless you have another AI program do it for you. Some of us know the generic look of AI instantaneously. BUT it would be nice if some honesty was slipped in. Very probably, the only person being fooled is the AI 'artist' himself---or herself. The pity is, you'll never know the great pleasure that comes with the process itself.

Dave Matke 26 days ago

I think it's important if not standard to denote the medium used when posting your image. Important for potential buyers, galleries etc . Whether artists will use the new AI setting remains to be seen but I'm glad AW made that available.

philip gray 11 days ago

"We have created two new settings for our members to indicate if AI is being used in their ArtWanted portfolio images"

Whilst I welcome the inclusion of the additional feature for artists to indicate that AI has been used in the creation of their artwork, I feel that there are a number of potential issues that this poses:

This is fine as long as the artist in question chooses to be completely honest about whether they have or have not used AI in its creation, unfortunately there are many people who are using AI and are attempting to pass the results off as genuine hand made drawings or paintings, how is Artwanted going to police this ? in other words does this AI rule have "any teeth" or is this setting merely being put there to appease the core traditional artists who have complained about the number of AI art pieces that have already or will invariably flood the site ? Will there also be a limit as to how many AI artworks will be allowed to be posted, as we all know one can literally "Create" 1000's of AI art pieces in a day as opposed to a traditional artists output of maybe one piece per day at best, it is certainly not a level playing field if they will be allowed to upload as many AI pieces as they please. And what of the AI pieces that have already been posted to the site ? will users now have to retrospectively declare that their work was created with AI ? or will those works remain on the site without the AI tag ?

ArtWanted.com Staff 11 days ago

Philip – Thank you for your comments and questions, here is our response to those questions.

As AI continues to evolve into our lives, so will the changes to the websites we use, including ArtWanted. Our first step (like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube & others have done) is to simply indicate if AI was used to create the content of the upload. Other changes are likely to come in the future, but we felt like this was the right thing to do at this time.

There is currently no ArtWanted penalty if this is not done on an AI-generated piece, but it’s strongly recommended. ArtWanted has also gone through many recent uploads and artists and updated this setting manually for artists that appear to be using AI in their art. When we do this, we notify the artist via email and remind them to use this new AI content setting.

It’s not the best use of our resources to manually look at every image that has been uploaded in the last 5 years and guess if it was made using AI and update this tag on the image. We do encourage those AI artists to do this on the art they have previously uploaded.

ArtWanted does not currently have any upload limits for AI-art or other specific styles/mediums of artwork. Limiting this would only make some members not tag their art as AI, so that it could be uploaded. We don’t want to discourage artists from adding this tag for AI generated artwork.

However on our Daily Upload page (which is one of the most popular pages on ArtWanted) does limit the number of uploads per artist to 5 per day. This means that if a Premium Member using AI uploaded 1,000 images in a single day, only their first 5 would show on our daily uploads page to be promoted. The only way to see the other 995 images would be to visit that artist’s personal portfolio.

Thank you again for your questions, we hope that we have been able to answer them. If you have more, feel free to make another comment in this thread.

Charles Jones 11 days ago

Philip, I feel your angst. AI image-creating programs are abhorrent to me, not only because they spit out banal and soulless images but because humans rush to them as something new and wondrous. In short, humans have become addicted to technology and will grab for anything it chooses to dole out. As of right now, AI has the ability to write, compose and populate content for these addicted. I wonder if it has happened yet? The sad thing is, the simple-minded among us (the majority?) can't see anything to be worried about Not won't see---can't. Just don't be a puppet on a string, Philip. I somehow think you won't be. :) Putting disclosure on the honor-system isn't working; there is no honor among thieves.

Maybe AW should have an AI program that sniffs out AI content and labels it as such? Or is that just pouring gasoline on the fire? This is a rhetorical question, by the way. :)

philip gray 10 days ago

Hi Charles you write every eloquently about this subject and we are clearly on the same page with regards to AI art. I really feel quite sad that literally all the art platforms have decided to go with allowing virtually unfettered amounts of AI images to populate their platforms, it has been quite the "kick in the teeth" to all their long standing patreons that have used their platforms for many years, of course it is not only Artwanted but also the likes of Deviantart, Artstation and any number of other sites. I fear that what is behind this is a need by these websites to bring in more images and "artists" is in order to gain financially from the increased volume rather than the (seemingly holistic) approach they put forward in what they say which is always along the lines of "We want to give All artists a showcase regardless of what materials or mediums they use" whilst totally disregarding the wishes of all the artists that were already on the platform in the first place, whose work WILL eventually be crowded out by the sheer volume of AI art. What many do not realize is just how pervasive this AI is going to get....

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