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Lora A

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I’m an aspiring artist and starting out in the AI-crazed world scares me, to be honest. I feel like learning how to protect artwork from AI early on is crucial, so I’m doing my research. What tips and tricks do you have to safeguard your creations from AI? 🖼️I tweak my pieces (e.g., change resolution/dpi/file format) 🔧I use AI protection tools 🪪I use licensing and contracts to protect my rights 💧I use watermarking and metadata to assert ownership 🙅I don’t have any protection strategies in place ❓Other If you see your go-to methods on the list – reply to this post with the emojis I assigned to them if you can spare a couple of seconds 🙏  If you chose image tweaks, anti-AI tools, or “Other” – please let me know which ones exactly. Any answer would be of great help to me and other beginners like myself 🥺

Sylvia Evans

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Sod AI....just pick up a pencil and a piece of paper and start a journey of YOUR creativity.
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Helen Martell

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Well…I agree with Sylvia.   AI doesn’t stop me from putting my pencil, pen, paintbrush to a canvas, so if it bothers you THAT much, just switch off your internet. Simples.

Tessa Gwynne

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Lora A From your post, you appear to know more about AI and the computer protection than most of us here, and I wonder if you are playing with us! Just get a paint brush out and slap some paint on, and put your work in the gallery here. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Let’s have some painting done not fret about AI , out of the thousands of artists the chances of your or my work been attacked is quite low . The other thing is if I make it public how I or anyone else protects there work well it not protected for long as some smart arse will find away around it. 

Norrette Moore

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Lora A From your post, you appear to know more about AI and the computer protection than most of us here, and I wonder if you are playing with us!
Tessa Gwynne on 24/02/2024 08:45:38
My thoughts too, Tessa.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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I can't be bothered to protect my stuff from AI, to the extent it's at any serious risk to start with; and I certainly can't be bothered to **** about with emojis! AI is an issue for emerging or would-be emerging artists - there are YouTube videos which address this specifically, and younger artists who have raised the question: if you find that your work has been used and exploited, the remedies are much the same as they always were for blatant copying and forgery: if you see it, challenge it, and take legal action if it's sufficiently important to you - which it probably should be. I attended an exhibition a few years ago in which every single picture was a direct copy (and quite well done) of paintings I'd seen in a book by Norman Battershill; it wasn't AI - AI didn't exist then; but the words "slippery slope" come to mind now.  The concept isn't new, it's just a cheating phenomenon that's entered a new phase thanks to modern technology - beyond challenging it, I don't know what more you can hope to do - licensing won't stop it, nor will any of the measures listed in the original post.

John Johnston

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Just as a heads up for everyone here, this same person has posted this exact same question in my own art forum. I have no idea what the motive for such a post is but it doesn't feel right. 
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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You never know these days, John, what you can trust and what you shouldn't - but posting in two different forums/fora (I tend to favour forums!  I don't think the Romans used the plural... a touch of history for us all there) isn't necessarily suspicious.  I always run the cursor along any new post to search out hidden links, and this one is not guilty; so, being a trusting sort of soul, I'll take it at face value.  

Sylvia Evans

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Thanks John...always suspicious when no one comes back into the discussion. 

Tessa Gwynne

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Amen to that Sylvia! 

John Johnston

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There are no hidden links Robert and they found my forum by Googling for "Art Forum". My registration checks found nothing untoward. Though there is nothing obviously wrong with their post, the fact that they are joining up to more than one website and asking the same question, causes me to lift a suspicious eyebrow. I don't take action based on suspicions alone so, like you, I'll take it at face value for now ..... while keeping a watchful eye. 
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