Kurt - GreedFall fanart

Kurt, (character of the videogame GreedFall ) portrayed as a warrior standing between light and shadow. Is a sword meant to protect or kill? He can be your best friend, or he can be a traitor, devoured by guilt and darkness. (Low resolution)

🖥 Digital painting, handmade with love with Photoshop & wacom cintiq | #NoAI
This piece, started in March 2022, was finished in november 2022. I did almost no personal work this year, even tho I love making paintings for external projects, as long as I like the context.
#captainkurt is from #greedfallthegame by Spiders
and @focus_entmt #GreedFall #greedfallgame #kurt #kurtgreedfall

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01/01/2023 rant

Seems like Artstation is canceling Ai protests? I know how it feels to be on the side of a website trying to hide protesters but... eh. This is art. Months of art. Hand drawn on my cintiq. I hope you won't hide this.
This is a work of fan art.

Now, back to business. Why the NO AI SIGN?

AI-generated images (or music, or stories, or movies) are not Art. They are Theft. After months of ranting about this problem with whoever was so unlucky to be near me, many, many of other artists raise their voices. Tools like Midjourney, Laion, Wombo, Stablediffusion, and others, are using a lot of art from many artists without their permission (well, and pictures of you that you uploaded on the web or in some apps). No pay, no royalties. No honor, no effort. Yet, their users place a copyright on the result and call it their own creation. This is unfair and wrong.
#AIISTHEFT
🌳Actual AI systems fed to the Machine Learning all the artwork published online, regardless of the copyright, of the consent, of anything. My artwork was fed to the machine and I don't agree. Pictures of people, of kids, were fed to the machine. Even medical records... everything. This is why AI Image Generation must be regulated. Other than this, there are people thinking themselves so clever to have discovered AI before you, finding easy ways to scam people and earn easy money with text prompts that a machine that fed on copyrighted material created. This is why I will annoy you with my opinion on AI-generated images. And music. And novels. And chatbots. This is not "the next step in the industrial revolution": this is just an example of pettiness and mass stupidity, twisting an imperfect tool into something illegal just because it developed faster than LAW.
🚆 I know "we can't stop this train", and that it took 200 years of photography to create a law protecting non-consensual people from being photographed, but I'm not going to stop complaining.
Ai is wrong because it's against humanity- both inherently, and as a weapon in the hands of evil and toxic people.
I'm still here and I love my art. This is why I feel the need to defend it, because this b***s**** happening is trying to make artist useless, like telling them to stop expressing their art (by filling the web with ai images and stealing people's attention and time). Art exists to be expressed, but if ai generators fill the room with useless noise, no one can hear our voices. So, gagging us. And for what? Pettiness and laziness.
Actual ai is non consensual use of art.