EVERYTHING AI Art can't do, but artists CAN! 

Learn the truth about AI here and grow into the best artist you were born to: No to AI Art ru-vid.com/group/PLlEcLwoh4Va1ZgjMvoQ86uEWm2n1-4h28

I have a funny story, brace yourself. I *used* to do AI Art until one day I asked for something so strange that Microsoft's AI couldn't get it right so I got frustrated and drew the picture myself on the way to my Grandma's funeral, I looked up reference images and everything also I inherited a LOT of colored pens and pencils from my aforementioned Grandma. It would be a shame if they all went to waste.

I am not afraid of ai image generators anymore. ai may replace art jobs but it will never replace art as whole and that's kind of beautiful in a way. now that ai images are becoming much more of a big thing and Ive started seeing them much more, I've started appreciating real art way more. even if it's just a drawing of a stick figure made by a 5 year old. AI images kind of helped me look at real art in a much more beautiful way. ai art sort of indirectly helped regular art in that sense (to me atleast)

I LOVE this message! Every drawing i have done this year has at least 1 element that AI can’t do. Even when i tried making an algorithm with both my simple style and my “ai looking” style, it couldn’t make what i make. So i have zero fear when it comes to competing with AI. Coming from an ex AI bro :)

"it assumes perpetual ignorance" beautifully put.

I actually started traditional drawing this year partially because of AI, and my main goal with it was to further fill in the gaps in my knowledge I didn't have through digital alone. I'm sure digital will always be my main thing, but I do think that starting traditional even improved my digital works as well. Telling people how not knowing how to make art and trying to fill in the gaps with AI instead of having any other base knowledge made me realize how much I actually miss fundamentals I've been filling in with the transform tool and fancy digital brushes.

ive been super down in the dumps for a lot of reasons but AI just really showed the gross underbelly of the world that does not respect artists, and brought it into the spotlight. thank you for a more soothing video, i hope youre right that as a whole in the public it will pass! but it is true that the "creators" will eventually just get bored and stop, because the draw of art is not the pretty images at the end, its the process and being an artist intimate with your art. so much more than these dudes will ever understand

I’ve been wanting to do freelance animation (RU-vid) however ai did make me question whether it was worth it. Ai can do things faster than me. But I’ve decided to put myself out there while I still can. Even though it’s a low chance of success it’s what I want to do so I’m going to try

I hate to sound like this, but if Ai art is making you question “why even bother, what’s the point” then why are you even making art in the first place? Any one who says “why bother making art” has seriously lost sight of what art even is. Also Art Mentor, love how you do armor plating, I’m so gonna have to try that technique of yours with the lasso tool :)

Things you’re talking about are too abstract and won’t really disabuse anyone about the usage of ai, to fully understand the situation it’s also really important to talk about more technical parts of ai skills. Ai can’t do: 1) anatomy 2) composition (ai doesn’t know how to manipulate with the viewer's eye and renders everything equally, puts the object ether randomly or at the centre, which is boring, doesn’t know about the focus points and any other composition techniques) 3) perspective (ether with architecture or human body from different angles, it’s all done really bad by ai) 4) sense/illusion of depth 5) Unique art style (okay, this one you’ve mentioned) And the most important aspect is that ai also can’t learn how to do these things because it’s algorithms has to be changed completely for it to understand the anatomy, depth and perspective while composition even can’t really be learned by a machine because it’s not about patterns but feelings and what artist wants to highlight in the artwork

There's a story in warhammer about Fulgrim where out of jealousy he made a completely 100% perfect statue. It didn't have any flaws, but it felt wrong, unnatural and soulless. The imperfections is what gives a statue its soul.

One thing I noticed is that often when working on a big project, people will give you an intense amount of feedback that you'll have to adjust and interprit. AI can have major troubles generating things based on prompts, let alone altering things based on collaboration and communication. I've done design and music work for 3d animated films, and a big part of working on certain projects with tight deadlines and specific criteria was the ability to be flexible and iterate and problem solve based on a changing project.

This is such a needed video. I can't count how many people I've ran into online with "oh no what will I do whats the point?" (Just keep creating lol). There's also plenty of people who don't make art who favor human artists over AI so it's all good. I didn't appreciate having a couple drawings scraped, but I'm not afraid. I use traditional media. Even when I saw some old RU-vid video of a small gizmo doing a drawing, I'm still not afraid and wouldn't bail from pencil drawings like the few bailing digital because the fear of AI.

The worst side effect of AI is discouraging masses of people to go into art. I'm glad there someone like you out there to serve as a counterweight. AI is dumb and will never be anything more than a gimmick and I say this as someone who is deeply familiar with computer science at large.

The only real way to make money in the art/music industry is by selling a dream. Selling consumers hope, a dream that they can succeed.

I love your videos about this topic and i want to tell a story. My mother started her own printing buisness and because my drawing tablet is damaged, she went to etsy and bought a package that was advertised as "digital drawn designs" for 50 Dollars and she thought it would be a good deal. When she showed me the "artworks" i was more than angry, all of them were AI "art". So not only did she get scammed, because it was advertised as images from real artists, 50% of the images were just HORRIBLE. There was a "zoo" design and the animals were all mixed versions of eachother, A giraffe with paws, a mix between lion and hyppo and so on. I actually laughed when i saw them, despite being angry, because that just shows how Artists will NEVER be replaced. For now she will use the Ai pictures for her prints and advertise them as such, while i try to draw her desgins on my damaged tablet.

There's one word that helped me overcome my fear of AI art... Chaos. Unleash the inner Gremlin energy and go ham on the artworks. AI art may be pretty images but it doesn't have the beautiful chaos that human-made works have. With that said, embracing the Chaos became my key on finally scoring a regular to my artworks.

AI enjoyer here and I agree with you, by a lot. I had to argue with my friends depressions cause they didn't see that AI was limited, they thought it would take over and a bunch of "why bother" mindsets that was annoying. Like, I had to explain them that I'm still PAYING them! Not cause they are my friend but because I LIKE THEY'RE ART! No matter how many TOOLS are out there, it means NOTHING to the fundamentals of being an Artist. Cool posters are one thing but as you said, a story inside it is another. Tbh, I pushed AI mainly to experience what it has and then left it at that. Cause I wanted to at least see what it was about and I still use it occasionally enough cause it's interesting and funny to me. They only reason why some people are going to actually be good with AI are Photoshoppers. They can use AI Art in a way that will work for them and that's a small margin of people who are going to have to show they have the skill or patients to use the program as a creative. Beyond them, eh. Personally, I just wish they all referenced the Art models they use and link or direct where things started from, like a lot do on reddit. Lastly I think the issue is less the AI Art Gen, or the community and more of a industrial societal issue. "Oh no, we'll lose our jurbs" is the biggest mindset I see in places and I'm just... disconnected cause I've never seen it that way.

As more time goes on, the limitations of LLMs and ML comes to light. I touched a text to image generator only twice, but each time was a disappointment. It's great if all a person wants is samey, bland, corporate guff, but it falls apart if one asks for anything novel or remotely creative. It can only remix based on what already exists in its data. Making new things just won't happen based on the limitations of the machine and it will always be stuck in the past. It's just faster to work out my thoughts with good ole' pencil and paper.

I'm also finally getting my head around physical paints such as Gouache, Acrylic and Oil. I am definitely never going to abandon digital, why in fact I'm using Krita and Rebelle to familiarise myself with these mediums, I have a set of Gouache and a huge Acrylic set, though the downside being cost of replacement. Physical mediums sure do have the edge over Digital in terms of connection and touch, which something like a Cintiq or tablet can just help to compensate for. I look forward to seeing combinations of the physical and digital. I definitely think the future shall yield new advances in physical mediums, such as programmable nanite paint (may be necessary for painting low gravity), magneticly suspended pixels and other mediums of creativity I cannot think of. Over the centuries I doubt physical mediums will die off, they will evolve just as they centuries in the past.

Thanks for your optimistic take. Also talking about the market saturation, it's a point a lot of people oversees because it's not something you measure in a relatively short time

Great video and heavily agree with what is presented about quality and uniqueness. Just want to add some extra points as someone who commissions artwork and specifically stays away from AI art: 1. AI art is not competing with actual artist commissions. They are not competing for the $80 hobby artist commissions or the hundreds of dollars or thousands for amateur, professional or industry professional artists. AI art is competing with each other for the "$5 for 10 renders" - a commission fee so low that most artists I don't think would even bother. In a way, AI art helps filter out the people who would underpay for your services. 2. What I love about working with artists, is being able to say, "I like the picture but the armor joints don't make sense, could you change them to this, and remove the spikes?". "Or, I like the picture, but I want the lighting to be a bit more moody". Or, "this goblin is pretty cool, but he should be a bit taller", and the artist being able to make those changes promptly, or even live. Problem with AI art is that making such direct and specific changes is difficult and the tool ends up changing other parts of the image I don't want changed or not changing it at all. And some changes take longer to make than an actual artist doing it. Generally an AI artist has to, "get back to me on that" and then wants me to settle for whatever they have generated. 3. When you are creating a world, having the input of an experienced, and just as ambitious artist can help elevate your idea way beyond what you initially expected. I love having ideas for fantasy but an artist takes those ideas and my prompts/descriptions and adds a spin on it that ironically immerses me into my own idea. Not to mention artists can really help put your ideas into perspective if you are unsure of even your own idea. AI artists are unable to do that because the only thing that goes through most of their minds is, "that looks cool". Their standards are more their own standards and they rarely think of the standards of the one they are producing for.

This really is a social issue where society is very quick the exploit and take advantage of the most enlightened. Its funny how there is no AI lawyer, when it is much much more technologically easier to replace, same goes to any other field. The problem with artists is that they failed to defend, and they got rolled over. Art was the last realm of high intelligence. I highly doubt it if the world would have become this dystopian when AI came out at a time when the social and philosophical views about art was akin to some 300 years ago.

It really was a nice and soothing Video, thank you! Ive been feeling alot better about AI since last year thanks to people like you. Sometimes you just get caught in a bubble of negativity. Of feeling powerless against Image to Image generators who blatanly steal works trying to sell it as theirs. Or people that just really like hating on artists and their passion. Getting joy out of putting others down. In the end things will develope in unpredictable ways but I know that I will still be making Art no matter what. Because I just enjoy it too much to let a machine do it for me. And im certain the demand for human made art wont ever fully go away. Just like we still enjoy live performing musicians even though all their music could be played digitally.

Hey man, I'm a young aspiring artist and I have to admit that your videos keep my hopes up to keep on pursuing my dream. Social media has constantly spread fear and hopelessness about art due to this whole ai art thing and how it keeps on evolving. You, and other wise people around the internet, are massive motivators, and I'm thankful that you're able to spread this same motivation to others. Ai wishes to replicate the human heart and passion!

I like digital art when I'm drawing anime/manga stuff, the effects available on digital programs are necessary to get the picture to look how I want, and the process is faster. I prefer traditional media when I'm making things like portraits, there are things that digital media cannot quite replicate when working with real oil or charcoal of course someone who's never used traditional mediums probably wouldn't notice or care about that. I think it's good to enjoy at least one or two different traditional mediums, the experience is different and you can give your eyes a break from the screen! And in having that extra skill if the absolute worst case scenario happened you could fall back on selling traditional art, but at the same time there's an audience for everything so if you can build an audience I don't think you need to feel threatened about AI images.

Thanks for encouraging artists. I hope you're right. A lot of us 3D artists can't switch to traditional though. Please keep dropping these AI videos.

The one thing I truly love about what art AI cant do is be part of the authentic art community. All you people are so amazing and supportive to each other. The human element and warmth that is in the comment sections is so inspiring. Human artists help each other to become better because we know how damn hard it is to learn how to draw. But learning is really good for your brain too. AI art is fake.

Why do we want to draw? It is because I hold strong opinions on certain subjects and I wish to express them. I want to present and bring attention to the attractiveness of the characters or scenes. Sometimes, I even feel that the original author cannot satisfy my thoughts, that is why I create derivative works. Using AI is just repeating authors or other derivative works, Brainlessly remixing the ideas of others by statistical distribution prediction. I believe that artists' ideas are unique and worthy of attention.

what keeps me from doing AI arts myself that often was: using AI to draw obscure characters(which can makes up at least fair amount of my faves) can make them look bootleg-ish

You're totally right. The narrative aspect is something that AI just can't do. Thanks for giving me concise arguments to throw back at pro AI bros :P

Hey! Send this to Shadiversity quickly! He needs to hear this XD Edit: 15:50 I really want to extend on this as a personal experience experimenting with AI. Yes. Starting with an AI generated image IS more work because 1) you have to then hunt and fix the mistakes, 2) it takes you less time to sketch exactly what you want on a piece than asking Midjourney to produce 10 dozens of images you then have to go through and see which one works. And even then it's not going to be even that great because is not exactly what you wanted... AI art should be (first of all properly regulated) used as a post processing tool. Or something in between once you have a good base, if you even want to consider it. Remember, AI doesn't really understand when and why a golden ratio composition or rule of 3rds work.

AI art is going to get progressively worse , as it will start using other AI art for reference source material , it like feeding google translate back to it's self and messing up the original meaning . the more AI art that exists the worse the feed back loop gets ..

Wonderful message. Something that can only copy what's been created before won't outperform people who can create anything.

I'm a long time away from this, but I want to hire artists and will not go to Ai. People will want to hire artists in the future. Ai can't escape its stigma.

This video calmed me down a bunch, thank you so much 😭

I defs needed this pep talk today, thank you

As someone who mostly does characters in full body I have found doing it through ai art can’t be a final product due to the lack of things I am looking for.

this person is so clever, I love his channel already

This video makes me feel better about sticking with my digital art. I do both traditional art and crafts plus digital, and I'm going to be sticking with both now. Plus, ai is cheap, jumbled up garbage made from free, public domain works that anyone can use, and copyrighted works stolen without permissions, that the companies charging ai users have no right to charge for. It's also incredibly environmentally damaging to generate ai stuff as well.

Isn't this like saying why would I become a mathematician if calculators can calculate? Is this a good analogy? There are things that calculators can't do.

I cant imagine anything more boring than having a computer create for you. there's no reward for the user, the whole point in creating is to master the skills and techniques over a long period of time and getting that sense of satisfaction and reward from achieving goals. its how our brain are wired.

Thank you so much

Undoubtedly, artistic endeavours motivated purely by the pursuit of wealth seldom hold the captivating essence that truly moves an audience. When your creations lack a sincere ardour and an appreciation for the act of expression, the result often feels empty and devoid of spirit. The artistic sphere can be ruthlessly discerning, readily identifying those who fail to invest their complete being into their artistry.

nightshade is our biggest tool against ai

Personally, I don't care what AI does. It's not going to stop me from drawing either way.

10:46 shots fired!

As a traditional artist, I would like to say that AI can’t replicate the different textures of materials on paper (ex. Markers on paper feel different than crayon on paper). It also can’t replicate the smell of scented markers, which I like to use sometimes when they sell them at the Dollar Store.

Just like food lists the ingredients, AI generated content should have to do the same. I see it like going to a bakery vs. buying machine made processed bread. Both can exist, but should be very clear with the consumer.

Ok so I'm aware that you're the ART MENTOR, therefore exactly that is the focus that it should be. I would like to just throw in that LAION 5B has been exposed recently for legitimately containing CP and SA imagery, which means yes, the companies directly sell illegal content with their "AI" through the datasets (not to mention the entire rest, which also has been stolen). Generative AI in general seems to be nothing but a criminal enterprise and ever since I found your channel, which helped me greatly through this most hard and testing year, I have not come across a single person who can actually effectively counter any of our sides points. Even outside of the sole focus on art, the opposition against generative AI unites all artists from all sorts of political affiliations, for they all understood what's the right thing to do in this situation and by now, it seems like the law makers are not really in favor of any of it, so this is also interesting to see. Thank you so much for your effort, please keep going and we wish you a happy new year, TAM! :)

As someone whose used (and tbh, still uses, shamefully) AI image gens, the idea of drawing something I actually want at a low quality is still far less depressing than rolling a digital roulette wheel dozens of times until I’m so tired of holding standards that that I have to drop them and settle for something that looks nothing like what I want.

I love your channel

Humans create MEANING

Sir i am a teenager and I wanted to become an animator sir but then I remember that ai can do animation in future 😢

I've lost customers to AI, but honestly I've never seen a generated image that gives you 100% what you want without an artist having to manually fix it. The older, less representational stuff that was colorful blobs was more fun to play with, but AI is a toy more than a tool, and like any toy people can and will get bored of it when it doesn't have something new for them.

Most important thing it can never do is actually communicate through art like a human artist. Cope and seethe ai bros

they can't make traditional speed paints they can't recreate the texture of a beautiful painting

Don't STOP creating! Your intellectual property is still protected. Sure they can scrap it.......but they cannot copy and paste it. Your work is still valid and still holds it's own weight.

Personally, I'm rarely intimidated about AI generated art because sooner or later, the hype is gonna die down once the value dries up. Instead, it inspires me even more to make better art than I typically do. It compels me to create more meaningful aspects of what I love about art.

Yeah baby! More motivation!

Compostion is one the those thing AI cant do because it work different for each situation so it required thinking progress and some time artist break the rule the make the image more impact, Dynamic pose and foreshortening too because AI have zero idea how anatomy work, so the muscle 'll turn out hideous if they try those pose.

And the other problem is that every image or writing you create is then fed into the next A.I training data. So that uniqueness you have? Its now in the database for the A.I to use. Due to a grey area in law and GREED

Creativity and idea generation is often a series of happy accidents, and this is because it was created by a human. AI Image making can loose that human flow and individuality. So don't feel like you are second best, you have a varied amount of human attributes that AI strives to copy.

I notice ai sucks at floatation devices I not worry about the job side of things I am more worry about ai cause censorship and same artstyle from everyone else its boring

AI can't make hands, feet or teeth even if one's life depended on it. Since there are infinite angle for the human hand the dataset will always be incomplete. I've seen thousands of ai images of attractive women and not one ever had hands that are 100% matching the pose or angle or even human anatomy.

I'm wondering if there's something wrong with my brain. Despite getting a tablet & i pad drawing on them just doesn't feel or look right to me. Anything I draw on them just doesn't translate very well 😅 it's why it's taken me so damn long to buy these things as my brain just doesn't seem to be getting it whereas with pen, pencils & paint? I have zero issues with it 😂 i need someone to rewire my brain. Last thing I'm worried about is AI garbage when I can't even transition properly to digital😅 maybe I have to accept I'll forever be artistic dinosaur

Meanwhile I keep creating my art, because even if AI can (at least in theory) generate a work that looks better than what I can do.... using AI misses the point. You miss the peaceful moment where you're painting/drawing in your canvas, you miss the joy that I recently got when I've made my first breakthrough and saw a significant improvement in my art after MONTHS of practise, and let's be honest... if you show an image and say it was made by AI, people will be like "oh cool", and then move on. But when you learn to draw amazing pictures after months, and show it to your friends, or even better, ACTIVELLY SHOW YOURSELF MAKING THE ARTWORK IN FRONT OF THEM, they'll think you're a fucking Art God! No one envies AI's ability to "make" art, because AI is just an unfeeling machine that can produce whatever garbage fast without any actual thought or reasoning behind it, but people DO CONSTANTLY ENVY REAL ARTISTS, hell the mere EXISTENCE OF AI "ART" is proof of that, Ai Bros are nothing more than a bunch of envious losers who really wish they could draw like some amazing artist, but are too lazy to put in the actual effort required to do so, so they steal said artist's work, so they can try and claim it as their own, and what motivates that envy is specifically because it was a HUMAN WHO MADE THIS! You look at the fucking Mona Lisa, and immediately knows.... A human being has made something trully special and amazing, and that's why you envy that human. Because you fantasize about "being amazing".

AI is limited. The human imagination and talent has not limits. 😉

Ai art will never be able to make an image of a human skeleton with human muscles on it cutting of it’s fingers wall trying to cut an apple!

I’m an artist and I’m not giving up, ai may be able to replicate video but they can’t take away my passion.

Ive stopped uploading since early 2023 because i dont want my stuff to be scraped and used to train these abominations

The Art Generator has no emotional interpretation, no capacity for imagination, originality, nor as they say 'soul'. At first I was disheartened when AI effected my means to get freelance work, now I see AI art is doomed and am double more determined to improve my craft and imagination.

In a lot of anime. That seems to have similar art styles. But there are anime with unique art styles.

AI comics look disgusting and I don't see that getting better anytime soon. Artists that specialize in sequential art shouldn't feel threatened, at least not for the next couple of years which is enough time to complete one or two projects of their own. Artists that end up giving up because of AI art right now are going to regret it a decade or two from now when it still hasn't broken into mainstream media as anything other than supplementary software.

Wanted to swing by and thank you for taking a strong stand against the AI art heist. Im vehemently opposed to the use of these unethical tools. I wont even support channels that use that garbage to make their video thumbnails. Its disgusting. Its neen weaponized against onebof the most precious things in life -real, human artistic expression. Take away the billions of images they STOLE 1-to-1 and these models become virtually useless

AI doesn't understand English.

Just ban AI art totally

so you are saying we should study literature and English, and as long as we have ideas, we could type them in openai and can skip the drawing part? okay got it.

And yes, the A.I is better than most artists and "is just another competitor" ..but never has there been a competitor that can steal your work and replicate the style 245663258 times in a day. This competotor is massively undercutting your prices and making your product 400x faster.

Everytime you think there's something AI can't do, just wait 6 months.

It's so weird listening to these videos because I agree with him, but he comes across with the same vibes as a charlatan trying to get on my side so he can trick me into a bad deal. It's conflicting.

agreee...the only thing AI art is replacing is mediocrity

AI art is literal garbage. ChatGPT's responses are literal garbage.

All i will say to artists who hate AI is skill issue.

Hey, AI bros. Since you tell people to learn from the past, let me give you a story lesson: Giving bad names for people who disagree with you and being trigger-happy with it never worked. If you were unlucky enough to dwell in Brazil during 2019-2022, you unfortunately know about Jair Messias Bolsonaro, the president during this period. Being totally unbiased, his time in office was... Really, really bad. Just to name a few things that this guy did while in office: - Fired lots of people in the Federal Police (Kinda of our FBI) to protect his family from being investigated; - Used ABIN (Our CIA) to spy on political adversaries; - Destroyed the Operação Lava-Jato (An operation that found and punished corrupt politicians. Many of those were released after this stunt); - He denied vaccines in the pandemic, causing 700K deaths; - He made easier for mentally unstable people to get firearms; - He appointed a judge who gave political rights back to Lula (Our current president) despite he being a convicted felon; - Also, since his congressman days, he commited embezzlement; I could go on... And everyone who tried to criticize him was labeled as a communist. After all of his misadventures, he lost the election to Lula, a convicted felon, despite his 40 billion bucks on welfare. People now are less scared of being called a communist now. Rightfully so. Why would anyone feel ashamed to be called a communist when the anticommunist side is openly anti-vaxx, incompetent, narcisist and on top of that, a bully? So what if I'm a luddite? At least I ain't threatening anyone with unemployment, I ain't blaming everyone else for my downfalls, I ain't pretending to be happy with an AI girlfriend, I ain't creating deep fakes of people I hate... And I honestly enjoy what I do, I can have real social connections even without getting something out of it, I don't need to buy AI-generated samey BS from multi-billion companies, I can enjoy a healthy relationship with a real person, I can always get better with effort... So I'll take it as a compliment. Also, please, God. I hope I won't talk about this disgusting man more often. He's now ineligible, being investigated and might get arrested. It's time to forget about him.