So I went down the Furry AI art rabbit hole and came across this lovely infographic.
— π§ Juniper the Boba Yeen π§ (@YeenieBeans) March 18, 2023
TLDR: βPay an artist for a sketch instead of a full piece and let AI do the rest so you donβt have to pay.β
Theyβre literally encouraging financially fucking over artists now.
Bruh π pic.twitter.com/quR3Q9713K
The Quick Rundown
Online artists as a whole despise the advent of AI artwork, but no online art community seethes about it as much as the furry fandom. They consider it a huge threat to their monopoly of exploiting autists for their neetbux in exchange for a drawing of their green wolf fursona taking a dump for a solid 3-figure price tag (the stink lines cost extra). They hate it to the point where all major furry websites such as FurAffinity and e621 prohibit the upload of any kind of imagery that have been created even slightly via AI tools, meanwhile proudly allowing shit like furry child porn i.e. babyfurs and cub to be posted. 
Enter /r/FurAI, a ~10,000 member subreddit seemingly created by a rogue faction of furry coomers who would rather embrace this new technology and have unlimited custom furry pornography delivered right to their screens - assumedly keymashing their "Anthro fox woman with a huge futa horsepeepee, hyper realistic, 4k" generation prompts one-handedly. The subreddit founder and owner @Tricky happens to be a dramatard himself (or at least stumbled in here for a short while at some point after discovering the rdrama bait sub /r/LoveForAIArt), and is pretty open about taking delight in the fact that this furry porn generation tech makes the vast majority of furry artists seethe hard.
Anyways, it looks like he cooked up some kind of infograph/guide a couple of months ago on how to steal unfinished sketches from an artist and use AI to upgrade them to fully complete art pieces, with the express purpose of spreading it and causing as much rage as possible. (and also possibly to shill his sub via outrage marketing 
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It was posted to /r/furry and hooked quite a few angry furtwinks, so it ended up being an adequately successful gayop which was then quickly forgotten again... until this random r-slur somehow dug up this moldy encrusted bait from the bottom of the dumpster, and now a frickton of Twitter artists with huge followings are retweeting it and spreading it like wildfire again. As of this posting, it's sitting at a nice 420 quote tweets of pure malding about how anyone that dares follow this guide will be blacklisted and excommunicated from the furry community forever! 
Twittards React
https://twitter.com/GazzaLadruncola/status/1637242226601336832
I'm sure the dastardly individuals doing this will be commissioning on their main account so they can be easily identified, and most definitely not on a sockpuppet. 
Please, please for the love of Allah I hope they start pricing out their audience and fricking up the art they draw for clients. Offering a worse product to your customers out of spite is surely a great tactic when confronted with an upcoming competitor in the market. 
I think the bio speaks for itself here. 
This dude's art must be pretty darn good if he's worried about AI chuds stealing it-
Oh. 
This one exclusively draws obese pokemon farting.
https://twitter.com/Thera666/status/1637549702962114560?cxt=HHwWgMDTseux37ktAAAA
I may be an open dogfricking zoophile, but at least I'm not a techbro chud!
Peak furry moment. 
A voice of reason appears! Could it be possible that mass-spreading a great way of robbing furry artcels of their paycheck could have unintended consequences?
As I write this, the tweet now has nearly half a million views lol.
https://twitter.com/BetaEtaDelota/status/1637507975936987136
A furry youtuber is on the case! I wonder if he'll properly credit rdrama? 
There's so much seething (it's still blowing up more even now) that all of these highlights barely scratch the surface of the torrent of pure anger coming from furry artist Twitter right now, so I encourage you to dive into the replies and QRTs yourself and dig for more. Huge kudos to @Tricky and his ability to turn his love for AI into this beautiful work of performance art.
Just to round off, here's the OP's artwork that they're terrified the AI chuds will be coming for.
Here's hoping that our AI overlords (and artcel hubris) will destroy the furry commission economy for good!
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Oh hey everyone! Glad to see that guide finally took off!
If artists put up their prices, stop offering sketch commissions and watermark the shit out of all their artwork that the client PAID for, I'm sure that'll bring a bunch more of their potential customers over to the AIchad side when they get tired of dealing with artcels and their annoying whiny bullshit lol, they can stay mad (and poor)
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Some artists do better with line art.
I honestly don't mind paying but my biggest issue is the fricking contracts
they make you sign, no editing, don't crop it, don't print it out, don't use it for commercial purposes, don't share the full res version, I retain full copyright blah blah blah. I despise copyright and it legit gives me r-slur rage when something you paid for is owned by someone else and the single best thing about machine learning is you can't copyright the product.Frick you, once I buy it I should be able to do whatever I want with it. With ML where it is artists have no business being this demanding, they should grovel and beg for commissions or just do it as a hobby.
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Furry bros... you don't really sign this shit, right?
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Actually you don't sign anything but they all have a TOS with these rules and bullshit. I especially love the ones that make you dox yourself.
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Where have you seen these what
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You've never seen it before?
https://shimmiart.weebly.com/terms-of-service.html
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I mean itβs a business transaction? All that information is required for any paypal transaction
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BIPOC I'm not doxing myself for a drawing, if that makes me a sperg then so be it.
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So how do you pay?
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Artcels are the landlords of intellectual properties
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THe only people mad are artcels because real artists are already making hella dramacoin off harnessing the power of AI
Speaking as an owner of these particular works of art, I give full permission for everyone to use it with unlimited copyright,
also you're
welcome.
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Too fat. Can AI make it thinner?
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THINNER!
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AAGGH IM GONNA
IM GONNA
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JoJo lookin m-fer.
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WTF? I love intellectual property now.
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extremely keyed
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furries be like dismantle capitalism uwu right up until the second their own profit is at stake
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lmao do furries really? If I'm paying for the creation of art you can be darned sure I'm getting the copyright
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As if they'd ever know if I violated that one in the first place
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Do you actually care about those things? I get it if youβre putting it on a shirt or using it as a logo or whatever but putting dumb macros on art is a classic
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Based furry
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Based furry fury
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What's funny is the guide actually goes to quite a lot of effort for a mid coloring job, if an artist can't make a furry look better than that they don't deserve to make money with their colors.
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The guide was made purely as bait, I didn't really put in as much effort as I could have. The point was to demonstrate it as a proof of concept to instill paranoia of their clients into artcels.
I know some people who are way better with keeping up with the tech than me who could get a far better result.
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haha still a good guide though and basically what I've done for a lot of marseys and shit
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That's treading dangerously close to Chris-chan territory.
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I know right, someone made a meme about it already which I'll never top lol
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Yeah, there's a much higher seethe potential updating it to include LoRAs, which can be used to effectively copy the style and characters of an artist
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i am never gonna pay
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Ur a furry?
Shoulda seen it coming
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it used to be wombyn instead of Wombat but it's funnier now
nah i am not a furry but i like them
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It was already generating drama almost 3 months ago.
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When the furricide comes, you can die last.
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Hero
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Kingly move.
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I think "rabbit hole" means something very different to furcels..
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Rabbussy
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Tell furries that theyβll be in Foxholes in the military and 100% of them will enlist
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Nice try recruiter
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I was not expecting the collapse of the furry porn economy to happen in 2023. We truly live in a society.
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Get a job coomer enabler
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Thanks for including that gay furry porn at the end. This has gotta be the 10th time Ive seen porn in public bc of rdrama.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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That's sfur you fricking Luddite.
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Sorry I donβt speak zoophile
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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You see any girthy hogs there?
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Grey muzzle vocab
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A wat
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Online artcels are entitled as shit and need to be knocked down a peg. Ive yet to see a group as so self righteously clout chasey. AI has just outed them as creatively bankrupt grifters relying on a niche. Modern furry art styles fricking suck anyway I hate the squishy thicc uwu shit furry art peaked with old fairy tale etchings
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That's literally just a fox in a hat, zoophile
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Itβs fetch art not coom art
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Evocative bones and hangings.
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love that this proves what was known all along: furry coomers just want to coom and are following the path of least resistance and have no loyalty to the "artists" that have been able to hold the market captive.
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The artcels deserve it since they have little talent outside of drawing porn.
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They all have the exact same style which is why it was so easy for ai to learn
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If only we could kill off MFA programs while we're at it.
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I actually really like this one:
Not sexually or anything since I'm not a s*x pest, but it looks like a character out of some sort of cool fantasy book I want to read.
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Unironically furries piss me off because I want to be able to enjoy art like that without people thinking I am a s*x pest. Why can't I just enjoy animal based art?
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IT LOOKS COOL
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Redwall-core
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Right?
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False eyes on the hoodie to scare off predators.
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These neighbors are r-slurred, glazing won't do shit to img2img. Just watch this tutorial:
https://twitter.com/MfChar/status/1636302873620357121
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A regular image filter can basically remove it, it's bad snake oil
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It's literally stolen snake oil (they ripped of GPL code for the front and backend)
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And you didn't put that into the AI upscaler?
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Except this isn't even stealing. You asked for a sketch and you got it, I don't think artists attach a clause to this work that you can't complete it on your own. I guess they can start doing this though. In any case, frick them.
Or it's just about helping people save money. If it also causes seethe from a bunch of entitled fricks, then great.
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Yeah, I guess looking at the other comments this is actually common? Surprising. I would've assumed that buying a commission meant you actually got most of the rights to it.
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Furry or not, the great artcel coping is fricking sweet. Keep the hate against AI art flows!
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Can one of the AIcels here upscale this thing?
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please someone tweet this at the artist
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and be sure to give rdrama FULL credit effortlessly for stealing their work!
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Grotesque
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how tf do you turn those scribbles into something coherent?
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I literally only use NAI and style LoRAs to gen so it's interesting to see what can be done now with specialized models.
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It's a pain in the butt to d/l them all which is killing my main HD but the strength of the models speaks for itself, coupled with how insanely fast it is to merge two models together, blows my mind as I would have figured that was some super re-training as in x days to weeks stuff instead of taking 10-30 seconds
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That
@TED_SIMP is foul and fricked tbh.
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good I was striving for accuracy lol, everything
@KissingerFanBoyNoCarp said was fact and all tedsimpsimps can maid
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tedsimpsimps will love it, girl-next-door effect
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Isn't he ted simp simp now?
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The past week is a complete blank for me. I fear I may have had a schizophrenic episode...
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alternate gens if you need lmao
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Its beautiful
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Fur affinity and e621:nooooo you can't train an AI off our furry porn it's against TOS
The scraper: don't care + frick your TOS
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I'm not an econcel by any means but wouldn't this drive up the demand for sketches, which would increase the price of a product that takes less time for creators to produce? Doesn't everyone win here?
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Because visual artists are the laziest, most entitled people in the world. These people were born with a knack for drawing - they never actually learned a new skill, and the implication of having to learn one is dread-inducing to them.
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Yes, but twitter furry artists are r-slurred and hating on AI art is the current thing lol
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tell them to we can trace their art as well and sell it
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I wish i was smart enough to use AI, cause id really like a Marsey in the style of Maid Marion from Disney's Robin Hood.
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Let me share with you a story. The day was June 22nd 2020. The world was in the grips of the worst pandemic in more than a century. Climate change heatwaves were scorching the planet. And somewhere deep underground in Cupertino a courageous group of developers were doing the unthinkable. Up in rainy Seattle Microsoft CEO and overly friendly Indian man Satya Nadella was sitting nervously trying to get the Apple WWDC stream working in a beta version of Microsoft Chrome/Edge. After 15 minutes he gave up and opened his personal MacBook Pro and fired up Safari. His face lit up with the warm glow of the stunning 500nits Retina display. "What will Apple announce today" he thought to himself. The stream began, Satya's palms became visibly moist with the anxious sweat seeping from his impeccably manicured hands, the hands of a true CEO. Then it happened. Apple did the unthinkable and announced a desktop and laptop operating system version numbered higher than 10. Satya began to visibly shake. "BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" he shouted at the precision milled piece of aluminium sitting on his desk.
He slammed the laptop shut and stormed off to the Windows Developer Team bunker located under the Space Needle. "They did it! They fricking did what you said nobody could do and make version 11!" None of the developers believed him of course. They all knew such a thing was impossible. An intern, looking nervous, twitched in the back. Satya saw "what is it?" he asked of the young MIT student. "W...well we could do Windows 11" he stammered. The other developers gasped in shock unsure what would happen next. "W..w...we could change the taskbar so it looks like a Mac Dock but isn't as functional and make the window corners slightly rounded and call it a new version of Windows" the intern continued. Impressed Satya asked the young man to join him for lunch to discuss more ideas.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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