That's where art credit comes in. Which, I agree, isn't the answer we're looking for, but it does give an audience member/exposure to the artist.

Which is where AI art credits fails to deliver. Even if used recreationally, RPers that use AI simulators are essentially training it to perfect its unethical craft by feeding it data collection. The image simulated may be yours, but the data in the machine will be used again and again and again, which will benefit the inevitable client that will monetize it. Artist benefits nothing.

I think recreationally a compromise could be crediting an AI art piece as: Midjourney, inspired by the style of Loish. Still not the answer, but at least an artist benefits something from this niche community lol.

Yeah, no one should be attacked for using AI art, regardless if they were aware or not. Apologies if my post came off that way, I'm only constructively engaging a conversation. When I wrote "protect artists" that does not imply attack someone maliciously on the internet, that simply implies, please use that money to commission working artists that can draw your OC rather than paying for a machine that frankensteins human information from working artists that don't consent it. Whether you do or not is simply your own prerogative.

As I said a few posts ago, I'll still RP with anyone regardless of their art, but can't say the same for others in that regard.

Quick addendum: it's a fine line in the creative world but... emulating/inspired by =/= theft. Majority of artists do allow pfp use, which includes hovers and whatnot, therefore editing is allowed. Majority of artists do NOT allow their art to be used for AI simulators, which is why we see artists taking down their art from public sites. Art credits DOES make things better, because it tells me where you got your art from whether that is from an artist or idk Midjourney. Like, imagine passing in a research paper to your professor without citing your bibliography or footnotes, haha. That's crazy.

Another (related) confession: I think ppl who use AI art shouldn't get fc claims. Because at that point the art doesn't look like idk Nami from One Piece, but an entirely different character. Might as well just credit it as Original from Original Series. Which imo is fine.

Both ChatGPT and AI art depend on the simulation of human intelligence processed by machines. Legitimizing one sets the precedent for another.

My two cents WRT AI art is that it begets the question of hypocrisy. An understandable rule of thumb in the general RPC that ChatGPT is ethically wrong, but somehow AI art isn't. It tells me that we protect writers, but not artists. Wont stop me from rping with someone, but I will sigh. 

That being said... my faceclaim confession is that I love it when fanartists draw fcs in diverse attires disparate from the canon. 

this flu has me feeling like coff cat

not me realizing i need the esoterics/mystery in rp otherwise my muse is like "?? huh??? where are we going with this???"

i am watching penny dreadful rn and [ bernie sanders meme ] i am once again asking for esoteric victoriana gaslamp fantasy rp of my dreams

I was comin in here to suggest the same thing!

au percy jackson rp but its set in non-modern times

i love to fc niche

or fc those who were popular like 5-10 yrs ago (ya im a hag what abt it...) and go thru the pain of sifting thru the sources for ANY good fanart

watched a seance horror film and i am like "when do i get to write a final girl in a rp wtf"

"when does my char get to inadvertently invite something demonic to the circle"

au panem before the hunger games

girls will say “this is my comfort movie 😌” and it’s a period piece where a man and a woman psychologically manipulate one another for two hours

i'm girls btw