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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 8760587" data-attributes="member: 7037141">Right now in real life artists are facing a real unspoken crisis: Digital raiding of art has never been more prevalent. Were not even talking AI's or digital tools, were are talking about other people.NFT's: thousands of artists are dealing with this problem right now. Individuals are stealing their art that exists online, minting NFT's from art they never produced and never owned to sell for profit. Despite the fact that its illegal, many artists are unaware their art has been stolen, and those that are aware must go through the process of reporting across multiple platforms to try and protect their work, often with difficulty.This is just one aspect of digital theft of art in the real world right now. This is a serious problem, I know thus because I work with other artists across the globe all the time, and the pool of available artists that I can now contact is shrinking by the day.At the moment, the pool of available professional artists on portfolio platforms like Artstation is dropping. Deviantart is almost a lost cause at this point, theft of art there is so common its pretty much abandoned by most professional artists I know.AI art tools "learn" by scraping from preexisting art, created by living artists, and it is done without their consent. These artist are feeling burnt, and some are quitting their passion, rather than waiting to see it stolen from under them.If professional artists are pulling their work from online platforms right now (and they most certainly are), then they are already being impacted by these practices. For those that work with artists regularly, we are already seeing an impact on the industry.If I am having a hard finding an artist right now, how hard will it be to find professional artists when artists see absolutely zero incentive to continue creating art that is literally scraped by an AI seconds after posting.</blockquote>

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