No to AI generated images

this platform is a place for art, art that is made by artists regardless of their skill
and most importantly ethical art that doesn't take advantage of artists artworks.
we worked for decades to hone our skills and the art community helped me more than anyone imagines
I wouldn't be here without their help, big artist / small artist I asked and I always got an answer and some even were generous enough to give me their time of the day to mentor me and refused to take payment when i first started.
thats how generous the art community is, its not a community of gatekeepers its the most supportive community that i had the honor to be in.
AI gen stuff use Laion5B database, that scrubbed the internet of data "artworks, personal images and even private medical files" the majority of it is Copyrighted work and this data has been monitized by softwares like Lensa, midjourney and other subscription based softwares.

this platform is for artists to share their art, regardless of their skill
we want to see human art, not a frankstien automated image plagiarizer.

get this shit off Artstation.
thank you.

and keep making human art <3