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My youtube need more of you😊

I think you are wrong. I care deeply if the stickers, posters, images, calendars i buy are illustrated by Humans. When they're not and i realize ive been duped, I send the product back and leave negative reviews. And I'm not alone. People I know are now willing to pay more just to make sure it's made by humans. Just wait out the initial hype bubble.

Free Palestine from Hamas!

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I hope you can have compassion over the hostages because 6 bodies were found in Gaza and one of them was a very sweet young man. But to you he just a Jew. Very disappointed that an artist can be a racist.

Liberalism is the modern fascism

I've been doing well as a freelance illustrator since 2017. But in the last two years, this new technology has changed the scenario for creative professionals here in Brazil. Unfortunately, I had to choose to change careers in order to adapt to this new reality and survive. Currently, I only produce art as an author. Furthermore, I agree with you that AI has incredible potential to promote positive change: Helping to combat global warming, bringing cures for diseases and performing high-risk jobs. But in capitalism, bad decisions that make people's lives worse always predominate.

You’re so well spoken and exude such calm energy. I could listen to you talk for days.

I've been a fan of your artwork and subscriber for a long time, I was so excited to see a new speedpaint, but when I realized it was for 🍉🇵🇸 it was just the cherry on the cake. Beautiful work as always, and so meaningful. Thank you so much for this.

This is such a positive way to use your following to create real change! well done you and I look forward to hearing more about the campaign x

There's no such thing as "AI art". There are only AGIs (Artificially Generated Images) and AGC (Artificially Generated Content).

Well done, that’s awesome this idea of helping people by selling your art ❤

I am VERY interested in seeing more of you and your watermelon paintings! I'll definitely make a bid if I can!!! I feel like it's a light at the end of a tunnel whenever you post a vid and this one is amazing given that you're helping your friend Amir through these awful times. Thank you so much for what you do and your impact

This is so stunning, so many incredible pieces 😊😊

Very insightful

I think there is gonna be still credits for illustrators but not is the same way that we see it today. With the ai mutation, I think the prompters's gonna be credits (or a term like "human+IA) cause you're always need to lead the machine in a certain way to have the end results

A beautiful idea. I'm planning to bid and you've inspired me to try and do something similar with my talent which is poetry but not got a clue regarding how to go about it. Any ideas?

Hi Holly, fully concur with your viewpoints - the way so called 'AI' is being used in this way is a disgrace and hugely unethical. The worry with UBI is that strings will surely be attached.

A very insightful video Ms Exley, thank You. I'm not afraid though. I certainly felt the dread that most did with A.I's rise but realised it will only make physical art more impressive and expensive.

I got an AI related ad right when you said "i want to end this video whith a bit of hope" on that moment the ad started and was adresing companies to get their services. This kinda ruined my experience

The paintings are SO beautiful and I LOVED watching you paint. Thank you for fundraising for Palestine 🇵🇸

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You are wonderful! I'm so grateful for good people in this terrible world.

To counter this, I'm changing my art style. From now on, my specialty is to produce hand created drawings and paintings in the style of bad AI art. I think it will make me stand out and look creative. It also has the advantage of giving me an excuse for why my hands look weird. At the same time, no AI is going to train on my art because companies want to avoid training AI on AI content. And any AI that can mimic my art style will look like bad AI which is not a good look. Seems like a win win situation.

I haven’t posted any artistic work on the internet since 2022 and neither should you. “Exposure” has never been important to regular career seeking artists, it has always been a trick to make artists give away entertainment and inspiration for free. You can simply send a private portfolio to your employer. If you work in the film industry make sure you let your film commissioner know they are not allowed to compress or view your work using AI apps as it has become quite common and they’re part of the problem whether they realize it or not. If your private portfolio is on the internet then make sure to use watermarks and include your name in the SEO, leave descriptive data out to make it harder for AI developers to pick it up in their searches. Using things like dropbox and google drive is safer than having a personal website.

So, I make generative AI trailers, and they reveal my taste, my experience, my knowledge, my values, and so on. Just because AI was used at some point, doesn't mean that I am not genuinely expressing myself in the final product.

I love that this video went to Universal Basic Income...I am all for it! I hate that creativity and commerce gets conflated, and I wish dividends upon all traditional artists!

There is a nuance to this debate that is often missed, which is that AI doesn't make everything for everybody that uses it. Some uses of AI still require a considerable amount of knowledge, skill, creativity, and time. The fact is that if traditional art is superior, then it need not fear us AI bottom-feeders. At the end of the day, all artists and creators have a creative voice, and they want to share it, with the help of AI or not. I would never let AI do all the work for me...there is no pride in that!

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🍉 Lovely paintings!

You're doing great things Holly

AI isn't actually intelligent. What we have right now is some directed automation. While you imagine that power to only be available to elites history has shown us that it will become available to the common user and I doubt it will take long. I have seen this play out several times in my lifetime where it took millions of dollars of special equipment to do what a decade later could be done on a simple home computer. Products of the existing 'AI' will be mainstream and will displace artists or lower salary (already low) in those markets. If, however, you sell your art in a gallery then AI is not likely to replace that or related prints and the like. The work of coming up with an idea and then producing that in some original form and then rendering it in a non-digital manner will continue to have value. It just won't be easy or perhaps possible to compete in commodity markets. The issue with UBI is really who is going to provide the funding for it and then how do you escape diminishing returns. If there is no income to buy products then who do you sell to and if your product has to fund people to buy it then you are chasing the diminishing return. There is no model that supports any significant part of society not making a wage that allows them to earn beyond basic needs. I think of 'AI' more like a glorified calculator. You poke some data into some formula and run some scenarios and get some output. It is not sentient and it cannot come up with ideas all by itself and produce output. Someone has to give it inputs and scenarios. Lastly there have been successful lawsuits in the US where the source of some AI generated thing was original works and the producer of the original work sued, and won, for the lack of compensation.

This was a very nice vlog. Love your speedpainting. And with an important message today.

Beautiful paintings and a beautiful cause. May we see a #FreePalestine 🍉 🍉 🍉 (and I'm glad to hear the algorithm is finally working in your favour)

ah man, brilliant on so many levels! seems a good guess right now that the yt algorithm gods are not going to favor it (or in some sense would rather even actively sink it) - which i hope won’t discourage too much, if so the paintings are wonderful 💚🇵🇸

Thanks for this - It needs to be elevated and shared--

The solution is easy, take a pencil

Nice pictures. What kind of paper do you use? I mean company and surface:)

🍉SO beautiful and I love that you’re doing this to help out Amir & family! Free Palestine 🍉

Hi another artist here. I agree with many of your points but UBI is a terrible idea. All that will happen is more control over our lives. The govt decides how much money you get, then set price controls on groceries, utilities, etc - then there would be shortages and poverty. The politicians and elites will have all the money and power and we will have none. It is the path to communism. But I'm also not afraid of climate change so I guess it's a world view difference. We are in agreement that AI is very depressing and all I can say is that I will not pay to buy a comic book, see a movie or buy a video game made with AI period. I also will not use Adobe products or products of any company promoting AI. The only power I feel I have right now is with my wallet.

Holly you and your husband are truly giving, loving, thoughtful humans. I am so happy to have found your channel over 4 years ago now (for sure). You bring us joy! Thank you!

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Please more whale zines! And then send from the EU so Portugal doesn't extort me with an exorbitant customs tariff! :)

AI copies human talent. Without human creativity AI wouldn't work. Art is an expression media, without feelings all you get is something's copy. I think this is artists' main advantage

I started to get into digital art 20 years ago but quickly realized over time that digital art could be created by non creative people so I jumped ship and went traditional oil painting for rich clients. Its a nice side hustle.

AI is for people with no talent, so they can jump on the creative bandwagon. What we're witnessing here is the same thing that happened to me. I was a photographer during the 1980s - 90s. I was using film. But as soon as digital cameras became available to the world and its dog, my business started to fail. I lost lots of work to people who would undercut me. I refused to take the digital route, because I'd invested in expensive Hasselblad film cameras and lenses. So I gave up and just accepted it.

I think a lot of artists are overly fearful of A.I. and a lot of that comes from them not using the technology themselves to see what it can and more importantly, can't do. I've been using it for game design recently, and while it's decent at concept work that's pretty much all it's good for and it really falls flat when you try and use it for more detailed production work. I mean the idea it's going to replace 2d Artists any time soon seems laughable and will only be pursued by companies that have no artistic standards at all IMO. Now I know what you're going to say "A.I. will get better..." yes, that's true, however if you look at the current data it's looking more and more like A.I. is currently being starved for information and more data/training is going have prohibitively worse and worse returns on investment now. Open AI is burning something like ~$5 Billion a year for probably a ~5% gain in performance right now, which will decrease to ~2.5% next year and they still haven't figured out how to work A.I. into a production environment because even will all these billions spent, It still can't even make seamless textures.