Hi friends, mod here.

I want to take a moment to address the issue of low-quality AI-generated content that occasionally gets posted in this community.

While /c/comicstrips hasn’t had a specific rule about this until now, it’s become clear that some AI-generated comics being shared fall well below the standard of quality we aim to maintain. These low-effort posts not only disrupt the overall experience for readers, but they also devalue the hard work of the illustrators and artists who contribute original content here.

Starting today, a new rule is in place:

AI-generated comics are no longer allowed in this community.

Thanks for understanding and helping keep /c/comicstrips a high-quality space for everyone who loves comics.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    2·
    15 days ago

    Just make a comic with stick figures. Cyanide and Happiness literally became famous for doing it and turned into a semi-refined art style. You don’t need AI if you got a good joke on your hands.

    • Lembot_0004@discuss.online
      0·
      15 days ago

      So if you’re ok with low quality, why then you object about AI comics quality which is mostly significantly higher than “stick figures”?

        • bobbyguy@lemmy.world
          01·
          3 days ago

          ai isn’t lazy, it opens up the art industry to people who cant draw, and people who are worried about their art careers need to remember that ai cant make physical art, and there’s already enough hate for ai that will definitely still be demand for human made art, so just draw or paint on a physical canvas, or find the people who have a demand for human made art

          • Mike Hunt@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Disagree on that first bit a lot, drawing is a skill you have to learn, Jumping to AI right away because you don’t want to take on the hours of learning is just lazy.

            • bobbyguy@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 days ago

              i don’t understand why people don’t like ai, its just a very new and advanced tool, it makes peoples lives more convenient and can intelligently solve problems, we used to have manual long range communication like mail services, it would take days or weeks for people to send short one paragraph messages to each other (in this analogy this is equivalent to the pre ai art industry where you could either learn to create art yourself or commission an artwork.) then we developed telegraphs and radio and telephones and eventually smart phones which among other things can allow to people on opposite sides of the world to communicate with almost zero delay (in the post ai art industry almost anyone can create almost anything in a matter of minutes or seconds, something that used to take hours days or weeks to achieve has been streamlined, made cheaper, and more available to the general public)

              in both industries automated systems replaced most of the workforce. lots of people were put out of jobs because it was economically more efficient to automate the process for the most part. just like how there are still people in the mail industry delivering packages and of course physical letters, there will still be human artists in the future. the industry will just be smaller and people wont create art for the sake of looking the best, or for the sake of making money, people will personally create art because they want to appreciate it and share it with other people.

              so i really don’t see why ai is a bad thing, all its doing is streamlining the industries it can be applied to.

  • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    0·
    15 days ago

    While I think Ai can make some cool images, it sucks at comics.
    They look souless, have weird facial expressions and have inconsistent fonts.

    Stick figure comics are far better.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      0·
      15 days ago

      Stick figure comics are far better.

      I’ll test your theory. Here’s a comic made be me in a minute trying to act like a data scraping AI. I don’t know how to edit things.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    01·
    14 days ago

    I congratulate you on your decision

    However, I do think that people like us are on the losing side. US tech companies are flooding the internet with AI slop and most people in the world are tied up in them and see barely anything else anymore.

    Soon enough we’ll be a tiny minority, but what can you do…?

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      01·
      14 days ago

      Many people cook entire meals using the microwave, and many people cook using an oven and stove.

      Yes there’s a lot of quickly processed food out there to feed the masses, but even the masses can tell the difference between a home cooked meal and a microwaved plate.

      We might be the minority with our cooking, but our clientelle don’t want it any other way and thats okay