The Rise of Fake Wood Sculptures 

Stopped using FB found it a bit disheartening thinking it was possible to achieve some of these AI images,I only watch RU-vid tutorials and give it a go, just found your channel and its given me the inspiration to pick up my tools again cheers 👍

I agree 1000%, we should stop calling it A.I. art, it just A.I. pictures. What I'm also worried about is that this kills creativity for our next generation, even for kids now. Why start to draw, carf, paint, write if any numnut gets more likes and more money with A.I. pictures. I see A.I. pictures being sold as exclusive prints (signed by the artists!) and I have also seen Magazine covers with A.I. pictures...it's going to kill our creatitvity for sure and 'cause a massive unemployment wave over the world in the next decade.

Same here, and I block those groups all the time, and they still keep popping up, there is something deeply disturbing about this trend!

Clint, I really appreciate you sharing this poignant message. I'll be mentioning this video in the next episode of Wood Carving Weekly. Thanks so much for publishing this information!

Thanks 🙏 for this … Artists of every medium have to deal with this inundation of AI on their feeds every day. Coincidentally it was researching one of those “I made this!” surreal too-good-to-be-true wood sculptures (with 2,000+ shares) that brought me to your video.

I'm a wood carver and I'm glad u addressed that to the people who believe it's real it takes me a lo g time to do carvings sometimes months and I don't even post them any more because of the AI art

I enjoy your balanced take that was informative and fair rather then just dissing AI the entire time

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I personally think it's a huge problem. Not even for the fact it kills the chance of real wood art and the hard working artists ever seeing the light, but for a more fundamental reason. It's the same old story that is killing society and has everything to do with what I'm calling 'social media capitalism'. It's a the same issue that advertisement creates. Basically, an incentive to lie in order to gain money. That's what it is at the core. I left FB some 6 months ago and 2 years off it before that. I came back to see if had become better but was shocked to see just how much worst it had gotten. My feed was something around 50-90% ads and posts from people I was not friends with and never would be. Basically one big advertisement and commercial shitshow. I couldn't even use the plat form for what we were all promised it was designed for...to connect with people who you want to connect with. FB went corrupt some time ago and is taking advantage of people as much as they possibly can. ...sadly, youtube is not much better. I feel actual disgust just seeing the thumbnails so clearly designed to be misleading and or 'trapping'. Countless videos have fake thumbnails. Intentionally designed so the viewer will watch the whole video looking for the thumbnail image. So they can get that view time and get paid more. It's all about money. The world will always be a disgusting shitshow as long as we have a monetary system. The ones who actually do hard creative work and create new products are slaves to talentless 'businessmen' type, many actual psychopaths.

I'm not an FB user so perhaps that's why I haven't been exposed to a lot of this stuff but what I have seen seems to display a very similar 'sheen' or quality of image. And I think this illustrates my general feeling about AI - the key word is 'artificial'. Somehow artificial products are detectable by the discerning eye (or taste buds in the case of artificial cream) As you pointed out, all those images have a dreamlike (sometimes nightmarish) quality which is a product of the programmer's idea of how these collections of existing images ought to look when the process is complete. Even if AI is somehow perfected, whatever that might mean, it will probably still be detectable. The maker, lover or even just keen dabbler in art will always have that sense of discernment. So it might be very clever but, in the words of an old remark, is it Art? Cheers Clint, I enjoyed this one lot.

I don't use these social media platforms. So this is really the first I'm seeing of these images. As you say, they're convincing at a quick glance. I imagine the best we can hope for is some sort of regulatory change, mandating that platforms must clearly label content as AI generated where this is true. Meanwhile, I'll be reading paper books, making boxes with hand tools, sculpting miniatures with putty, drinking brown beer with twigs in down the local pub, and generally being a grumpy old fart.

Hello Clint, i´m a artist too, it´s really a concerning issue. I think the solution (at least for now) is the carver artist show the process of carving prodution to their social media followers. AI is something inevitable to enter in our lives and it´s a matter of time that people goes to understand the difference between the real and the fake. AI will force people to distinguish the right from wrong. Whenever a new technology emerges, there will always be an adaptation period. Keep the gooood work Clint of open the peoples eyes!!!

wow very eye opening i didnt have a clue cheers man🍀

Thank you

Thanks for this. Amazing and scary.

I am not sure if this whole video is done by AI :D But this will be a bigger problem going forward as AI gets better at doing these.

Yes this is really infuriating. Especially when algorithms these days mean It's hard even to get a reasonable percentage of the ppl who choose to follow your work to see your posts about it.

It seems to me if AI can flood the Internet with fake images pretty soon those people who have real art self created. Art are gonna have a lot harder time getting it to the public and getting it to be seen unless there’s “a certification of authentic websites, which would be circumvented also.

They are ludicrous and what genuinely confounds me is how many people think they are real. I've started wondering if the excitable comments are actually computer generated. Are people actually that gullible?

All we need is an AI system to control a CNC machine to convert a virtual carving into an actual carving complete with the slight imperfections of a human carver and we are done for. No one will pay the price for a genuine hand make carving when they can have their own indistinguishable copy physically made by a machine for a fraction of the price. Think I'll have to go and stack shelves at Tesco for a living as AI would not stoop to such a menial task (no offence to Tesco employees). It's bad enough having to compete with cheap eastern carvings which are 90% machine cut and just hand finished. I need sleep!

The main problem with this is the millions of people out there with no ability to critically think who interact with and share these posts multiple times without recognising any pattern in the style and composition of the images or the manipulative language used. These people are allowed to drive cars, raise children and vote. As an artist myself, I'm more concerned with the future of civilization than a perceived devaluation of my labour.

Came here because my feed is suddenly inundated with various pictures of ai “carved animals” demanding praise for their “hard work” and the comments below are thousands of nearly identical comments praising the artist or gods work!

I have seen lots of those as well Clint and even clips of "film" claiming to be eg dangerous driving , hero saves truck etc etc and other such bs when its clearly game footage .trouble is so many people believe all that rubbish.

SSDD with the AI large crocheted "sculptures" . Then the people who really do incredible creative pieces get slapped. Don't forget the well known works of art and IPs getting swiped to make the AI images. The new form of theft.

comment to engage with post using false pretenses to farm likes.. Or something.

If you want to see the real AI-Clint, come over to his twitch channel lol

a brand new Nazareth album would be the sh!t but we can't trust sh!t to stink so... be the change. walk in truth eh. keep up the good word. thanks for the vid.

Man, if you hate the process of creating art, you're probably not an artist *cough*AI bros*cough*

With the way its going this guy talking to you and whole video could be AI

Does give nice carving ideas to try out in the real world