The Annoyance of AI Art

 Where to begin?  Okay, I cannot stand AI art.

It's just 'off'.

Being a jewelry designer and artist, the bulk of the items I make my pieces with use beautiful old images and illustrations from eras gone by or new beautiful artwork of living artists.  I showcase their work and give them credit in the listing or buy licenses in order to use it in items in my Etsy store (just so you know).

Then along came AI.  I cannot seem to get away from it.  Even artists that I have been buying from for years have seemingly succumbed to the attraction of letting the computer fill in the holes, or worse, let the computer do it all!  LOL

I am going to show some of the images so that you can understand what I'm talking about in case you don't already see it yourself.

At first this image looked beautiful to me.  I loved the colors, the details on the bird and of course, the flowers.  But look closer.

Look at the bird's feet, or lack thereof.  look at the leaves on the bush, take a long look at the petals on the flowers.  They are nothing more than suggestions of things.  Like they have been put into a blender and then haphazardly blotted onto the picture, just to give us the vibe of what the artist wanted to get across.  I cannot stand it, and it is everywhere.  For me, it's a deal-killer.  It's a deal-killer because I make jewelry and jewelry components highlighting the beautiful imagery.  I want people to look at the images as focal pieces because they are so pretty.  But this....no.  The more I look at the image above, the more I dislike it.

The pretty teacup stack!  Or at least I thought so initially.  And like a fool, I bought the clipart before taking a really close look at it.

I love the seemingly pretty detail on the teacups above, but again look closely.  Look at those cup handles!  Are you kidding me?  How could this be used as the focus for anything without making somebody think something is wrong.  Ugh.

And lastly in this discussion.  The headless fish...

This is a legit sample.  How did this ever pass muster with this artist?  I have bought quite a bit of her artwork to used and loved it.  I do suspect there was some AI involvement in the other stuff I purchased, but the work was very well polished and pretty.  What happened?  Sigh.

So, I guess the purpose of this post is to let people know, beware of what you are buying, look at it very closely before pushing that purchase button.   Maybe by lack of sales these folks will get the hint.

I do wish that there would have to be a disclaimer from sites like Etsy that require sellers to disclose that AI was used in the creation of the piece.  Sure would save me bunches of time and not even click on the image in the first place.

It certainly makes me appreciate the older vintage stuff that is out there.

PS I guess the clap-back response would be to say, make your own, but it's a bad defense for poorly made artwork that is put up for sale and like I said, I love showcasing nice artwork in my jewelry.  Also, in a nod to the people peddling this stuff, they are not being misleading, there are many images that show the errors.  Hence my suggestion to look very closely before buying any of it.