My Anti-AI Page

This is not meant to be a major addition to my website. This is here because I honestly hate AI. I made a whole movie which was about how "any culture that actively promotes it has no intrinsic value." Now if you've SEEN my art, I GET the backlash you're probably going to make. In my view, though, you don't have to be that professional in your approach as an artist, you don't have to get paid work, hell you don't even have to be GOOD, but you at least HAVE TO make what it is you've said you made. Say whatever you want about my art, at least what wasn't mine was changed and remixed in a meaningful way (and I'm phrasing it like that because the only time I handled art that WASN'T mine was in my YouTube page AND my movie "Prometheus"). In my view, if you want to make art, you HAVE TO get past the idea of "what if I'm bad and people laugh at me?" EVERY SINGLE person who has ever tried to be an artist of any kind will have had those fears (I'd also argue that art made by humans have soul compared to AI but this is getting off track*).

HOWEVER...I can understand your reliance on it if you're unaware anything else exists. That is what this page is for. This isn't meant to be a smug "YOU use AI!?" thing, it's merely meant to be a directory that shows you have options. So with that said, I am hopeful that many of you find what you're looking for.

I've also seen tech companies are starting to utilize their products to push the AI snake oil onto everyone. To put it bluntly, if you use Microsoft Word or Google Docs, your work is going to be used in AI shit. So...alternatives

Before I finish - if any of you are AI advocates reading this, I never wanted AI. I don't want to generate photos of something I could either find in the real world OR draw/paint myself OR (even better) PAY someone to make for me. Whether or not you're anti-AI, the simple statement of "I do not want this product. Can you stop forcing it onto me?" should not be a controversial one nor one that requires hoop jumping of THIS magnitude. I absolutely feel justified in fighting that. If you went to a mechanic who wanted to make a "Tetsuo The Iron Man" out of your car, you shouldn't have to keep constant watch just to make sure he doesn't do that (or you'd use another one that WON'T make a zombie/cyborg/human hybrid). Why should it be the same with tech and AI?

That's all I've got for now.

* = I actually wanted to elaborate on this a little bit. See a lot of AI art advocates, at least based on what I've seen, don't seem to add or appreciate details of art. Like if you were to write a prompt for "Saturn Devouring His Son" would anyone SERIOUSLY say that any AI could match Goya's interpretation? Or Reubens? What each artist brought to the interpretation of the same scene is valid and can speak to something in a person. Now, I PERSONALLY prefer Goya's interpretation because I feel it draws more attention to the actual act, the body of the child appears full grown, as if it knew what was about to happen, Cronos' face is almost that of a wild animal but moreso that of someone or something completely crazed. However, what I think speaks to this art piece is Goya was a liberal person and seeing Spain fall into religious and political oppression definitely affected his art (compare that painting to his "Hannibal seeing Italy". I can't project onto a man who died 200 years before I was born but I feel the differences between the two speak for themselves). I ALSO want to note that Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya was painted on the wall of his dining room. He never actually intended anyone see it. What does it say to have THAT image staring at you while you eat alone as your country burns?

Now while I PREFER Goya's version, Reubens has an interesting redo of the scene also has weight. Both are commentaries on the same myth of Cronos heard that his son would kill him and eventually his wife hid a child away who actually would fulfill the prophecy - Zeus. This one is less cannibalistic and appears closer in theory to that of sucking the child's soul out. Now...because this one isn't AS obviously "devouring" and in some interpretations of the story, Cronos' children are able to survive in his stomach, what I think of is life beyond. We've all seen people who are damaged or destroyed by trauma. Sometimes parental figures do do that to their children. The smoke could be the deliberate obscuration of the act and the stars in the sky...I know it was originally "Saturn" because the planet itself had just been discovered but "in universe" of the painting, it could also draw light. Like WE are watching this, WE are observing, there is a light that this monster will get what he deserves.

I'm not an art major. I'm not an art expert. I'm honestly just a fan. However, the point I'm making is every single thing in these paintings has reason to be there. Even if I'm not aware of the artist's history. There's actual thought behind why it all works the way it does. AI doesn't HAVE that! Now for those reading who think about picking up an easel or even a drawing program themselves - fair bit of fair play here, barring the "Hannibal", both were made decades into their artists' run. Expecting "I just learned how to draw, I WANNA MAKE A GHIBLI ANIMATION!" is just setting yourself up for disappointment. If you want to make art that looks good, if you want to make art that amazes people, what you need is an investment of TIME. Time and effort. Now I'm not saying you should be like these artists. If you have your own art that you find inspiration in...draw from that! Make music like them. Make films like them. Even if all the art you personally want to emulate is outsider/punk stuff (HI!). Inspiration from said art gives it...a soul in the way AI just can't.

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