Re the new AI Art Policy:
My statement is pretty simple. I love AI art and I look forward to it. Right now, the repo is entirely, completely, and ONLY for sprites. So AI artwork literally won’t matter for the Repo as we don’t have an ‘artwork’ section. We do have a few fullbody sprites of various characters, but AI artwork is still ages away from any sort of precision required for making sprites.
In the event that AI-generated spritework becomes available, and I do think we are a WAYS away from that, I will allow it into the Repo on a case-by-case basis. If people are just going to vomit out a bunch of basic-looking sprites instead of taking AI spritework to a more serious level with careful promptcrafting and whatnot, then those sprites won’t be eligible for the repo. But if somehow AI spritework reaches parity with human spritework like AI artwork is presently rushing toward for normal artwork…
Then great!
I look forward to the AI art revolution and our future AI waifu overlords.
Q: But Klok. You’re a writer. What if a robot learns to writes better than you? Would you like it if you were replaced? That’s what artists are going through!
A: Wait you’re saying a robot could write stories of the quality and caliber that I currently write? I could read sweeping and excellent works generated in minutes or seconds? I could use AI writing to supplement or even replace my own efforts?
SIGN ME UP!
AI artwork, and the coming AI revolution itself, is an opportunity. Some of you will miss that boat and will fall behind while crying that you were replaced. For the more observant people, it’s a chance to take their already excellent skills and drive them into the AI to out-produce works normies can’t make.
Q: But I like making art because it’s a creative process. Won’t AI artwork rob me of that process?
A: No. You can still make artwork. In fact, I believe in five years time that while AI artwork will definitely be absolutely dominant, it won’t be able to fully replace hand-crafted, hand-painted, unique expressions of human artistic creativity.
TL:DR, git gud.