Art Competitions Are TERRIFYING 

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When I participated in Lightbox Expo’s paint a thon, we had to submit WIP images, color studies, character designs, rough sketches and whatnot, and the judges would drop in once in a while over discord to see how things are going. We need more rules and regulations to help reduce cheating.

AI has gotten so bad that my mom asked me why I was pursuing a degree in Studio Art instead of AI art because she thought it was a legitimate career path for artists. I hope that colleges don't make classes for AI art!

I saw a news article where a piece was disqualified from an ai photography contest because it was real 🤦🏾

Worse part, the guy didnt even bother to use less obvious same looking name and the judges let it slip.

It's honestly disappointing knowing that real artists are pushed aside for the fake AI arts with no attempt put into it.

AI users are getting bold nowadays

People who enter an ART contest with an GENERATED "artwork" are something I'll never understand. It's rather sad that now we have to make sure something wasn't generated by AI, even Speeddraws or the drawing process can be generated in the near future. Just sad. Edit: Guys, I wasn't asking for an explanation, of course I understand why people use AI instead of drawing; it saves time, resources, etc. "Never understanding [something]" is just a way to phrase how stupid you find something , atleast where I come from.😭

Losing against awesome artists because I lack the skilzz? Applause. Losing against AI bros? No my man get that shit outta here.

What gets me is there seems to be no authentication. One guy shows up six times and no one bothered to check this?! What really gets me is I keep seeing artists on social media who didn't make the top 300 and yet he did...six times!

art competitions should have a rule where you have to specify your medium/software or progress shots or smth like that

The same guy does multiple submissions and they're AI 😢 TO WIN A CONTEST 😢 . We should call out these fake artists till they hide and our COMMUNITY REGAINS ITS LOVE FOR REAL ART.❤

17:04 i actually didn’t know they disqualified Vigen’s images, im so glad you mentioned it. What a RELIEF

They don't allow calculators in maths Olympiads, maybe they should think about adopting this same kind of rule.

Pokemon announced a few days ago that they've disqualified the offenders and are picking new finalists to replace them!

There should always be WIP submissions in these contests.

Guess people will have to submit a timelapse or progress photos

I'm honestly so sick of AI ruining everything. It should have never gotten this advanced. It is gone from being an inconvenience to just a plague at this point 😑

I think contests like this would do well to require artists show their process of creating the art. Videoing themselves painting / drawing would be one way and having them submit photographs of the art at various stages could be another way. They could even have a speed painting competition for the digital artists who would be given a tablet with something like procreate on it that would be connected to a giant monitor so that the audience could watch the art being created in real time.

The Pikachu at 9:00 in; the big water drop next to its face looks like an eye.

AI is a paradox. I recently helped one women with her short essay. I was translating and correcting [basically fixing] an entire essay that was AI generated and AI translated, because it was so bad. And you know what was the essay about? It was about how good AI is. Right now artist are debunking and fixing AI "art", because it's bad. So why bother creating AI, if humans have to fix everything it does? It creates more problems than opportunities.

5:18 the "gotta catch 'em all" got me rolling, bro 😂😂😂 lmao

Drawing is too hard for me, I would never even consider entering an art contest. I know I would lose but I hope I can become an artist one day, it looks interesting and I hope AI art isn't used to win contests. Just started my art journey 1 month ago, and my first sketchbook is in the making!

Hello this is my first time commenting. I believe that the AI artist ‘s four “art pieces” should be disqualified from the Pokémon competition overall. The amount of AI artist that steal art and defend others doing it is unsettling. The art community needs rules and laws to be made to protect true artists and their work against AI for every art medium. Visual art, music, writing, and etc. Thank you for the informative video. Have a wonderful day everybody.

Yess! I see this issue *everywhere*, thanks for talking about it

It’s funny how all art is better than AI because it’s made with actual passion behind it and not with a prompt from a basement dweller.

And here i am with the art skills of a child that wants his parents to put his art on the fridge 😭 why is art so difficult 😮‍💨

Gonna start calling AI-image bros "fartists"

I stopped entering online contests over 10 years ago. Some of us saw it coming.

Honestly... I find it VERY believable that the hacks at the Pokemon Company who have been shitting out low effort junk for the past 10 years, aren't savvy enough to recognize AI art or apparently see that so many pieces are from the same person.

Us artists are mopped 😭💀

I feel like art contests should be treated more like cosplay craftsmanship contests. For those, a lot of them have you talk about your costume, show all of the references/ sketches and such of the costume you made, as well as the bts of you making each part of the costume you are wearing for the competition. Art contests should have you include your wips, rough and final sketches, lineart, flats, etc. It would easily discourage and quickly take out these so called “artist” that lack the desire to hone the skill of actually learning to create art in any way.

Early but this reminds me when I was in 2nd grade and was the classes artist, the class got chosen for an art competition and I spent about an hour straight drawing horses. This one girl draws some scribbles and calls it a day. Welp, guess who one? 1st place? HER.

16:58 As of now, a total of 11 submissions in the top 300 have been discovered to be AI generated art, all of which are Pikachu and Eevee (not surprising at all). I used HIVE to check them, and all except for 1 of them showed up as 99.8% or 99.9% AI Amber Zeigler (1) DARA (1) Vigen K (6) Weihang Ye (2)

I initially thought AI would help the world and people, but the past few years I’ve realized it’s only getting worse

Tbh ai artist should just be called fake artist. These fake artist are stealing spots and art from real artists. There needs to be rules set for art contest in the future. I don't think ai art should be allowed, and if they have to cator to it, then a separte category.

I always make sure to follow wonderful talented artists who create the art with their own hands (pencil, brush, pen, colors) while completely AVOIDING AI artists because even though it's getting hard to spot the AI, if we take a moment to give the art a good cold look we can tell what's really going on behind the scenes! I congratulate all the fellow artist out there who put their hard work, love, and determination into creating those amazing pieces by hand.

This is so weird cause the AI creators literally said you aren‘t owning the copyright so this is literally copyright infringement.

What is annoying that those scammers don't get disqualified. But that photographer who entered an AI contest with a real photo (called "flamingone") got disqualified. Why aren't art competitions doing the same? Edit: Glad that scammer got disqualified! Needs to happen more often and contests should probably as for WIPs.

imagine working for days on a piece just for a dumb person to come to take all ur hard work using ai for 1 minute

Thanks for covering this! Seems like a win for artists… and it definitely takes a true artist eye to spot such glitches and inconsistencies! the irony is that a real artist COULD have gotten away with it, but they wouldn’t be so lazy lol ✨

It's such an insult because without *REAL ARTISTS DRAWING REAL ART,* there would be nothing for AI bros to steal from. It's such BS! AI bros think they're making art, when all they do is steal everyone else's hard work. I hate all this AI generated image bullshet and I think it's 100% ok to steal anything generated by AI and redraw/reimagine it as your own. See a cool OC design made with AI? Congrats, it's yours now! What are they gonna do about it?

Thanks for the update on the situation with the organizers screening through submissions again, and referencing Katliente's video as well. It's good to know that action was taken, though it'd be nice to know when they finally put up the updated list after they've finished the re-screening process... whenever that happense

Btw also the pictures of the two sleeping pikachus submitted by Weihang Ye are 100% AI and I wouldn't even be surprised if it was still Vigo making up a chinese name

The narration from the tiktok commenting on the topic, that starts at 13:15 is also AI generated im pretty sure lol. Ironic

If you look on the website news you can see a post from them. They said that they disqualified him and are going to choose new artist to take his places ! 🎉

I tried entering the Pokémon card art contest, but none of my entries got in. It’s sad to think that me and other talented artists could have had a chance to get in if this guy didn’t cheat. It would have been a dream to have my art on a Pokemon card.

I love this content creature because he actually brings things to light about so many things in the art community

Omg when I had to do a art competition for graphics class and all my classmates thought mine was AI generated💀

That darn AI(shake’s fist)

To avoid AI cheating in drawing competitions, the qualifying participants should be required to show proof of their drawing process, such as a time-lapse video of their work.

Debunking a bunch of common AI bro arguments: "AI generated images are just as legitimate as actual art." No, they aren't because you didn't make the image. And no, plopping a bunch of text into a bar to make an amalgamation of likely plagiarized images does not count either. AI is a tool for legitimate artists to test out what their ideas may look like before finally drawing it themselves, it does not produce art itself. "If you don't want your art put through an AI database, then don't post it on the Internet!" There's this thing called intellectual property. Doing so without artist's permission is not only immoral, it is probably illegal as well. Also, please tell me then why I see so many watermarks from the obviously pilfered artists if this is a non- issue? "It's not NFT's 2, Bro! AI will replace all artists!" Obvious copium aside, it very much is. When businesses see how ugly and unpopular AI generated images are, they're going to drop it, and all companies pushing this fad are going to die out. You will never replace human art, no matter how hard you ignorant techbros try, and AI art will never even be comparable to human made art because AI is incapable of feeling, and art is supposed to evoke emotion. "Stop straw manning me!" It's not fallacious if it's true. My final question for you AI bros is why aren't you trying to use AI to take over the menial labor like retail or warehouse management instead of parasitizing the creative arts that people would rather see be made by actual human beings?

This is what happens when you dont have real artists as the Judges of your contest. or Judges whodont pay attention to blatant signs of cheating.

I thought the art was real when i first saw it, ai is getting better everyday what the hell

If I ever host an art competition. I WILL ASK FOR A SCREEN RECORDING OF THE ARTWORK to make sure it's NOT cheated

why dont they make them send the full file with the layers. ?

This is why we need more AI image detectors to vet out these AI arts.

I wonder if it will get so bad to the point that all digital art is gonna get scrutinized and everyone will have to go back to hand drawn on paper for competitions and portfolios.

Ain’t no way bro….😭😭😭 imagine needing to cheat because you can’t draw pikachu that’s the most stupid ahhh shit I ever seen there is no way people think that this is ok or can make them artist there is no cheat way to become good they gotte realize it…..

As someone who likes to draw in his free time, this is specifically why I don’t want to post my art online. That because of art stealers and AI artists

Place where I live is having our annual County Fair next month ... I think I will pay close attention to any non-traditional-media entries that may be in the gallery. (Said fair has had some controversy in the past over similar issues, such as allowing Lego builds as entries in the Arts & Crafts category, with judges unable to tell official sets from original builds.) To be clear, this is a physical exhibition (with a heavy bias towards paintings specifically) where any exhibitions of computer-printed work will already stand out as a minority.

Oh no that is the reason why I don't want to post my art 😭 (btw good vid)

I long for the days where all we had to worry about were tracers.. how are we supposed to get through THIS? I hope sometime very soon there is a law against stealing artwork through ai like this, it's ridiculous. I don't even post my art anywhere anymore because of this.

A fix for this could be making artists send in a video or multiple shots of their process for making their pieces. Big downside is that this would make judging take a bit longer due to checking if anyone faked their progress photos or videos. It would also suck if someone forgot to document their progress. These AI don't follow anywhere near the same process a real artist does; it just places pixels and works with noise until it gets an image.

This is why i never enter contests ran by companies now, it's a waste of time. I entered one from genshin a while back and one of the winners it was a traced emote already existing in the game, and they did nothing about it. this also happened with the xiao and albedo ones too. (someone actually straight up used a google image which already belonged to another artist) i don't know how these companies expect us to want to enter contests if the people judging it are doing a terrible job. My advice to other artists is, don't waste your time go for smaller competitions. it will just make u angry when someone who traces, uses AI or steals an art piece wins.

It’s funny how an actual photographer got disqualified from an ai competition but ai users can get away with anything. It’s a rules for thee but for me situation.

AI is going to SAVE ARTISTS. The standard is 🗑️ now & the same 🗑️ introduced AI. Now REAL ARTISTS are about to stand out.

The audacity of RU-vid giving me an ad about AI image generating program before this video...

i saw an ai “art” creator complaining about art block. Like bruh. How???????????

this is crazy, i think all art contests should have a specific rule that mentions that AI is not ALLOWED, so these things don't happen again... at least until AI is distinguishable... yikes.

There's more AI art in that contest: Amber Zeigler, Johanna Tarkela, DARA, and Weihang Ye. All these entries set off the hive ai detector. (though Johanna Tarkela was only 78%). It seems like all contests should be using some sort of AI art detector.

The worst part about AI art is that it destroys creativity. AI cannot be creative because it is unable to create completely new things, but instead only able to copy from others art pieces.

He was lucky that it came out before he won. He would have needed to sign of the rights for the pictures to nintendo. Rights, ai art doesn't have. The Nintendo lawyers would have eaten him alive.

wow... You're my inspiration to most of my RU-vid art commentary videos thankyou

Man, these contests should have some standards. I mean, these AI scumbags would've been immediately denied when the organizers should tell the artists their progress like a PSD or series of WIP images.

saddest part is the people working on AI like that will probably just use the feedback on how it got caught to improve it in future versions, making it harder and harder to distinguish from human art.

i was wondering at what point the entries will need to submit drafts or proof of work to be considered. The seems like it should make it much easier to detect. traditional media can take images through the process.

Solution: Art competitions should require speed paint videos or proof of the creation process. Something AI would have a very difficult time replicating. Sure it could TRY to generate a speed paint video, but the way the brush strokes and logical progression of a painting or drawing is conducted throughout the video would make it VERY clear if it were done with AI or by human hands...

"Ai actually just steals less than a procent of every piece" is probably the dumbest pro-Ai argument ever, if that was the case they wouldn't feed Ai 100% of every piece, yet they do.

I love your videos, they're the best to put while drawing or cozy gaming. Love the calm and cozy vibe, xoxo.

*Fake artists ruined art.

I really want people to stop using the term "AI Art". Art is made by people. These programs use AI to generate images based on art that people make. So I suggest we use the term "AI image". Lets not inadvertently validate what these programs are doing by referring to what they do as "art".

I know people say that AI steals from other artists but has anyone noticed as of late that the general look of AI seems to fall within a very narrow 'style'? It's like, you can ask a generator for anything but it is only capable of giving you that in a set style it seems unable to break out of, resulting in the fast trend of AI being 'easy' to spot not because of errors but because it's legit the same shit over and over again. Same colors, same lighting, same weird glossy look. It's really just taking basic poses but putting on a 'default' coloring style and it's already getting boring. So remember starting artist; you still have an advantage over AI for the basic ability to be able to move away from a fucking default.

I'm not aware of the actual submission process for the Pokemon TCG competition, but all art competitions should have a mandatory file upload of proof showing that the artwork was made by hand (i.e timelapse video, video showing the various layers in their art application or a photo of their physical canvas if they decided to paint physically etc.) I know its easy for an AI user to just hide the original image if they went to the effort of tracing it over, but I personally think its easier to filter it out than a thousand different unknowns that all need their own time and effort just to verify that it was genuine. Again, the people running these competitions NEED to put ACTUAL artists in charge who know how to judge an artwork for its genuine handcraftsmanship and value, rather than just the fact that it 'looks good' from face value.

Lowkey I think the Weihang Ye ones also might be ai. Theyre the pikachu ones that are next to VK.

Are there any counter measures for us artists???? Each week a video coming out saying "Art Theft is getting worst" is kinda making me feel scared ngl T^T

Hi! Is it possible to have you credit or add a source to the artworks that appeared in this video? Like the one at 0:24.. It's not AI art is it?

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Even if there was an official AI art section. You can be sure there would be people using Chat GPT to generate the highly descriptive prompts, inevitably raising the exact same issues. 😅😭 Not to mention the entering more than once. Fo this competition, they could have mandated process videos showing the artists hands while creating the art for atleast a portion of the process along with a full timelapse. And that is the least of measures that could have been taken.

Using AI is cheating

For a competition like this the judges will more then likely only get to view the image itself and none of the artists details, this means a judge can view what they are seeing rather then potentially give a biased judgement if they happen to recognise an artist. However if this becomes a regular thing then we could soon see competitions being run by a double panel, the first panel will be weeding out potential AI created pieces with the second panel actually doing the judging.

i already know it’s about AI lol

My brain hurts when talking about colors, for me specific orange and red are the same color, I can't tell them apart

peanut butter

This shit makes me irate, and I'm not even an artist, I haven't drawn since I was a high schooler. The fact that ANYONE could defend the use of generated images in a contest trying to support actual artists is insane 😂

i started following art channels for motivation but quickly realized this is NOT the place for that. every video is so depressing and talking about how the art community is in shambles and doomed and other toxic stuff

Remember when AI art was still extremely easy to detect and AI bros INSISTED they never planned to pretend that the generated images were their own creations?? The loser who did this deserves to be found and publicly shamed

i feel like ai users just want fame whether its bad or good

any competition should have judges that are actually... you know...qualified in the field the competition is about...

I remember years ago Deviantart REFUSED TO SEPARATE POSER 3D PREMADE 3D ART from individuals user made 3D art and eventually I left. With this AI shit you can’t just walk away from dumb morally/ethically bankrupt decisions.