Are you referring to the cartoon version of that “other woman” meme?

What if I stole a clipping from ur apple tree. It's still there but now I have one too

Is that piracy or theft

I think you'd have to have a pretty unique style but if you could come up with one, you might be able to trademark it rather than copyright it.

Also there's a sneaky little "Support your local artist" on the crying wojak.

Artist/gamedev here, and AI slop does nothing but saturate our spaces with worthless garbage. Feel free to remix my content in any way you want. My game engine is also open source, you can either just use it as it is, or even use some of its parts for your own. But if you think AI is somehow good, then please don't even touch my content, just ask ChatGPT or watever to make you the same thing based on the same idea I had, but AI.

When I first joined lemmy local AI was pretty popular here. Popular opinion has shifted a lot in the anti-ai direction recently, especially after the recent internet-wide outcry after OpenAI announced that model a few weeks ago. Corporate AI was never liked, but there used to usually be popular comments defending local AI.

It's probably partially because the last notable advancement in local image gen AI was about 8 months ago now IMO (the flux model release). Also, 'open source' ai has become progressively less of a thing, with most models (even ones with released weights that you can run locally) released under restrictive licenses, probably turning away the foss-leaning fediverse population.

I think I have personally realized, since then, that the benefits of from-scratch image generation on society as a whole are almost nonexistent and "it's fun to play with for a few hours" isn't enough really justification for the potential harm to artists.

Because Bethesda tried to make money off of modders' work, that's why. Bethesda is as cancerous as Nintendo, especially after acquisition when the office "hunger games" started.

It's like charging you 45% after building a house for using their shovel...

https://itch.io/ is pretty close just no exclusivly OS

That would be nice.