Hey guys,
I know I haven't been active recently and that I have a bunch of PMs to answer, but I'm going to post here before I have to head out and I'll try to answer those later. So, to keep things short, my TH got falsely banned for association with an account that my now ex friend had created to use for AI rendered art sales. We had collaborated on AI images that she would find and we'd spend hours rendering, editing, adding to them, etc., to make some hybrid hand drawn/AI enhanced creations. I genuinely thought that this was allowed on art platforms, since I see so many straight up AI art being sold or built upon on DeviantArt, Facebook, and TH even, so I didn't think that it was a bad thing. I guess it was, because both of our accounts got the axe, she blocked me on FB where we messaged, and that means that I've lost probably about 700 images, an insane amount of time, money, and like 50 characters that I'll probably never get back and it's horrible when I genuinely didn't know that something was wrong. There's not even a rule about AI art on TH to begin with.
I know I haven't been active recently and that I have a bunch of PMs to answer, but I'm going to post here before I have to head out and I'll try to answer those later. So, to keep things short, my TH got falsely banned for association with an account that my now ex friend had created to use for AI rendered art sales. We had collaborated on AI images that she would find and we'd spend hours rendering, editing, adding to them, etc., to make some hybrid hand drawn/AI enhanced creations. I genuinely thought that this was allowed on art platforms, since I see so many straight up AI art being sold or built upon on DeviantArt, Facebook, and TH even, so I didn't think that it was a bad thing. I guess it was, because both of our accounts got the axe, she blocked me on FB where we messaged, and that means that I've lost probably about 700 images, an insane amount of time, money, and like 50 characters that I'll probably never get back and it's horrible when I genuinely didn't know that something was wrong. There's not even a rule about AI art on TH to begin with.
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If I've commissioned you or if you've made a character for me in the past, it would mean so much to try to recover what little I may be able to do. I didn't save my characters elsewhere because I thought that my TH was going to be stable and I genuinely didn't intend for any malpractice of any kind.