I think it's great to have nuanced, good faith disagreements, in an appropriate time and place!

but only if that's what's *actually* going on, rather than trying to pull everyone towards the center while saying "can't we all just get along guys? whys everyone so maaad cmon guuuys"

Especially when it's something *every* artist struggles with, like drawing a head from below

I wish the people who say that shit would learn that the not all things labeled "AI" are based in generative "AI" tech, especially not anything that came out over a decade ago.

Like, it's all based on machine learning, but it's not all based on LLMs trained on plagiarized works.

124k as the average for visual artists feels so laughable based on what I've seen job hunting over the years. Where are these mythical game art jobs that pay so much?

And an ornamental brick catalogue from 1904 archive.org/details/cata...

Fifty patterns you can make with a standard brick www.architekwiki.com/wiki/masonry...