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Oh wow, Maggie. You could swap out William Morris for Kusama and this was my story beat for beat. Honestly. Thank you for writing this up, it makes me feel way less naive and gullible if they were able to trick you as well. I agree with your conclusion; this is all going to hell so quickly.

The amount of ai pieces has to already outnumber legit & hand created ones. Etsy could fight it by say limiting the volume of listings one store can have, but they don’t want to be Etsy anymore; they want to be EBay/SHEIN.

I love opportunities for anyone to create value but the whole sell here has been how to make money w/o doing any valuable work. Feed PDFs to AI & generate audio books & podcasts! Upload AI cookbooks & coloring books, etc. It’s like printing out your Google search results to sell them.

It really is depressing because it’s selling only the illusion of value rather than anything valuable. And it’s everywhere because when only volume matters, curation works against the model. I bought a “highly rated” garlic press on Amazon that shattered on 1st use. 100% junk.

Oh wow I really like a few of these. Thanks so much for sharing! Trying to find more great artists to fill my feeds with

If you enjoy them, why does it matter how they were created?

Very good reasons indeed. But not sure about number 5 - it started our conversation after all :)

As a full-time digital artist, I hate it…

Personally, these don’t look like her work. She mainly works in fewer colors with only circles and stronger patterns. I also couldn’t find these, or ones that looked similar, when I searched. (I hate that this is where we’re at but I appreciate you supporting artists and not AI.)

Yeh I think they're using her name for clout but I suspect the rest is cobbled together from different sources. Such a shame there's no way to reverse search for the original artists, like you say. There's something resembling a signature in the bottom left of the second image of the first batch

Yeah I definitely agree it's not her style. I had never heard of her before seeing these prints so I didn't know better until I dug into her work more and couldn't find anything that remotely resembled these. I wish it was easy to track down what art these were trained from, you know?