Artist banned from art subreddit because his work looked like it was created by artificial intelligence

Artworks that have been created by artificial intelligence continue to be a topic of debate among

communities of artists and designers.They believe such works should be banned from image-selling services because they say the owners put no effort into creating them. Some of the stock photo sites actually banned the use of such works, for example Getty Images. But sometimes criticism turns into hate, and now a real human artist has come under fire.

We are talking about the author Minh Anh Nguyen Hoang,who creates his work under the name of Ben Moran. He was recently banned from the forum in subbredit r/Art after being accused of using AI-generated artwork.

The work cited by the prosecutorscalled “A Muse in Warzone”. It was posted two weeks ago, but was subsequently removed due to violating community guidelines regarding “memes, artificial intelligence, filters or other low quality work”. The author was permanently banned from publishing any work in the community. When he asked the moderators for an explanation, he received the following response:

“I don't believe you.Even if you “drew” it's on its own, it's so obvious that the design is inspired by artificial intelligence that it doesn't matter. If you are really “serious” artist, then you need to find a different style because A) no one will believe you when you say it's not AI, and B) AI can do better in seconds what might take you hours to do. Sorry, that's how the world works”, – responded to Moran.


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In principle, one can understand why the workMorana aroused suspicion. The moons are very reminiscent of the Eye of Sauron from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films, and it is both a subject matter and a style common to many popular AI arts. a busty anime lady in front of a painting that looks like a League of Legends commercial. However, the work does not have the usual trace of artificial intelligence, such as &#8220;broken&#8221; fingers or other defects. Moreover, the author even has receipts, including the Photoshop sketch files that were used to create the work.

With the advent of more advanced artificialintelligence in the past year, workers from many professions have become nervous, as AI has already learned how to draw pictures, write articles, translate texts, write code or make up stories. Of course, now it is hardly possible to use such works, due to their low quality, but in the future, who knows what might happen.