• YuzuDrink@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    My best guess is that they’re being posted by click bait farms to sell ads to people who view their pages… though I don’t know enough about Facebook to know if that would actually be possible.

    I don’t want to believe that hundreds of actual people are independently stealing and making variants on this one artist’s work to get fake internet points…

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      11 months ago

      I don’t want to believe that hundreds of actual people are independently stealing and making variants on this one artist’s work to get fake internet points…

      The really sad thing is I can believe that there are hundreds of people that are doing this. I have encountered people who straight up stole other artists’ work and posted it, claiming they made it, in order to get fake internet points. I used to be a moderator on a site that had very strict rules about art theft - used to issue bans for it at least once a week. I can totally believe there are people on that site now using AI images in order to avoid detection.