Ugh, if you want to rant the least you could do would be to write the post yourself instead of using AI to write it for you.

This is why I warn people constantly against AI artist witch-hunting. Actual artists such as yourself end up getting shafted by friendly fire incidents. It's a cycle of hate that only escalates.

I'm really sorry to hear that, and it's a shame for all of us to lose such fun art -- your work is so full of personality.

I hope the AI bubble bursts soon, but it's been very disappointing to see how many people don't value humanity in anything. I can understand peoples' paranoia, with so much worthwhile human art being chewed up, blended and blandly regurgitated by these robots.

I’m sorry. Somewhat related experience:

As a disabled person who is physically unable to do a lot of things. The advances in AI are pretty cool in that I can do stuff I never had the capacity for before.

But people seem to reflexively demonise anything to do with AI to the point I’m shamed out of even using it as an accessibility tool. It sucks. Sometimes feels like a sort of “moral panic” just like we had back when TV or the internet or dungeons and dragons got big.

Buncha assholes on the internet? Sounds like a day ending in y.

I love your art, it's sleek, modern and you've got a really distinctive style. Accusations of AI get flung all over the place and honestly some people just wanna be nasty and use that allegation as an excuse. It's shitty and I'm sorry you're getting it in the nevk

as a fellow artist, fuck those guys. they don't deserve to see your posts, so write "go fuck yourself" in a few more words and block em. they don't give your art any consideration, so why should you give them any consideration back? if they can't take a break from having their heads up their asses to view your receipts, then maybe they don't deserve to view your posts in the first place.

please keep posting. i've been more liberal about my use of the block button recently and it's been a real liberating experience.

what you’re missing is: every time someone says that, they’re saying your style is so clean and smooth, that it must be ai.
PLUS, i wouldn’t be surprised if “ai artists” are now lashing out against actual artists, not to mention: don’t feed the trolls.

have you ever met a compulsive liar in person? they have keyboards.
trolls online are actually mostly sociopaths, and they comment 95x more than regular people, and under many different accounts… when you reply and get upset enough, you become what they would call a “lol cow”, aka, a sensitive genuine human… maybe quit under this name, but don’t quit posting.
provide sufficient proof, and simply don’t engage with ai claimants afterwards. if a mod of a sub or someone with reputation requests proof, politely provide it, ignore all other haters and they’ll move on…

for a troll, a sociopath, it’s all about control. they’re controlling you to get upset, to go to great lengths to prove yourself… they’ll keep on insisting on more proof… frustrating you… and will never say sorry.

some people are real and doing the knee-jerk reaction to constant AI spam… but just don’t worry too much about it, provide reasonable proof once… maybe in a standard way each time you post, and just be a “grey rock” after that… responding only to mods and people with a really good history. (trolls really hate it when you check out their comment history)

really i would say this is an example of “concern trolling”… a tactic of pretending like they’re really concerned about some moral thing, and unreasonably accuse you of being immoral, so you feel compelled to defend yourself… and maybe they can get you flustered and banned….
p.s. do some stop-motion video of you making them.

I kinda deal with that over here in NSFW-land where I'm one of the resident Internet detectives. I get that it's really hard to tell sometimes (and not everyone enjoys trawling though reverse image searches to connect a photo with the user that posted it), but for fuck's sake, if there isn't any hard evidence, people need to just shut the hell up. I can only imagine how much more insufferable and demeaning it would be to hear that be said about my own art/ creations.

(For what it's worth, I think your art is pretty awesome!)

I've never seen your art before and went through your profile. Its amazing! I'm sorry you have to deal with this shit. Fun, goofy characters. Don't stop making them!

Who cares what others think if AI or not?

A lot of "art" nowadays, especially modern, abstract art, does not look like it has a creativity level that exceeds an AI prompt. But I still believe in human creativity. It is just not in everyone claiming to be an artist.

This is a general statement, and not aimed at OP - I don't think I have seen OPs works.

This is maybe the most convoluted way AI worshippers have tried to garner sympathy.