# @richpellegrinoart on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CmM_JqOvBJg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65579288-richpellegrinoart-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-15T21:01:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rich Pellegrino (@richpellegrinoart) — https://gondola.cc/richpellegrinoart

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It's simple. Take away all the art they are scraping the internet to sample from (I use that, since the similarities to music sampling are there) and they have nothing. The programs are built on our real artist's backs. Type in an artist's name and a subject matter and you get something as if it were painted by their hand has wide-ranging implications from stealing their careers to creating NSFW work as if they painted it or even take spaces in coveted comic convention artist alley spaces. Back in the day, if an artist had emulated another artist's style, they would be considered a clone hack, especially in illustration. I went through phases of emulating my influences, which I sought to shed and find my own voice. That's the point, you find you're own voice that makes you unique. Typing something into a program that spits out an image doesn't make you an artist and never ever will. Delusion is strong with so-called AI artists. The issue commercial artists have with AI is very specific with how it can potentially annihilate entire industries of creative makers by stealing their previous work through scraping and repackaging it. photoshop has disappointed me with how they’ve implemented it into their software and apparently monetized it for “ai artists”, and people that use it should voice their concerns with their wallet and mouths against adobe 
If you’re going to defend ai art to me, don’t. This topic (unlike others) has no gray area, and I don’t care for your defense of it. That’s all I’ll say on this. Follow jonlamart, kortizart for tons of great info on how this harms artists. #createDontScrape #conceptartassociation #artistsrights #aiart #antiai #art #conceptartist #design #ethicalai #legislation #regulation #unethical #illustration #illustrator #datalaundering #adobe #adobeai #adobephotoshop #photoshop

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datalaundering, ethicalai, createdontscrape, design, adobe, adobephotoshop, illustrator, artistsrights, unethical, adobeai, illustration, regulation, conceptartassociation, art, antiai, legislation, aiart, conceptartist, photoshop

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