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🐴 Alex Trost

Can someone help me figure out if this art is AI generated? I found a bunch of really cool pieces but they seem AI It says it's a Yayoi Kusama print, but when I dig through museums for her work, there's nothing like these there. www.peardropprints.com/products/yay...

Maggie Appleton

@maggieappleton.com

Oh yeah this specific seller is all fake generative AI work. Wrote up a piece about it: maggieappleton.com/generative-f...

maggieappleton.comFaking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art HistoryBuying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse

@toddmorey.bsky.social

There’s an entire genre of YouTube hustle that’s focused on teaching people how to ai generate digital art by the thousands and flood Etsy with the listings. It’s probably the most popular “make thousands overnight with this one weird trick” topic right now.

🐴 Alex Trost

Ugh, that's so fucking depressing. I hate that it's working, too. Gutting culture to make a quick buck used to be reserved for record label executives and their ilk. I might be happy for this new wealth distribution if it didn't kill the culture 100x faster.

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@toddmorey.bsky.social

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.

@toddmorey.bsky.social

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.