10/09/2026
Ugh. The plagiarism machine has no place in art.
I've had comments before, but I ventured onto pinterest this week to find that my granny glasses pattern was being accused of being ai generated. Which is RICH on that platform, considering it's been overrun with ai images π€¦ββοΈ Even worse, this is a totally free pattern, and it would be easy to see that it, well, actually makes sense, as opposed to ai slop.
I guess I'm flattered that some of my pics look "polished", but overall I'm just plain grossed out. How terrible is it that it's become so difficult to determine the difference between an actual hand crafted item and a picture of what a machine thinks a handcrafted item should look like?
Plugging a prompt into a machine is not artistry. Art is creation, fueled by emotion, and built with meaningful, beautiful human imperfection.
I'm so tired of this having to be a debate.