Creatively bankrupt: Woke MTG artists can't stop plagiarizing
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Ah, so now we come to the real reason woke artists are so terrified of AI. Projection strikes once again.
You'd think they'll just use AI and retouch so they have more time to spend bitching about things on twitter, dilate or some shit.
That Trouble in Pairs card literally looks like what would happen if you set the cfg to 20 with sdxl, prompts and some good loras and then paste the axe guy in front.
Problem with AI slop is it can't be copyrighted, which is the real problem when your business model amounts to selling an idea.
MTG tends to only care about the end result whenever it comes to artwork and there are artists that will absolutely plagiarize the work of another artist - where in their mind it's justified because "HEY, I COPIED THAT FROM SCRATCH AND USED DIFFERENT LIGHTING SO IT'S JUST REFERENCE". This is of course a big no-no, but it will only increase as less skilled hires tag along. It's been getting worse.
Over the years I've seen this shit get so out of hand in the art community that it'll look like someone slapped a filter over another person's work and other artists would come rushing to their defense with the same list of excuses. "LOOK AT THESE COMIC BOOK ARTISTS WHO FOLLOW STOCK REFERENCES CLOSELY, SEE? IT'S OKAY FOR ME TO STEAL OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK IF IT IS REFERENCE". Smol brain takes all around.
This person probably won't even get fired. Suspended maybe - they'll fire you for liking the wrong people on twitter, but no, not actual plagiarism. Not at this point.
https://www.faydalton.com/ looking at her work, it really does stand out to me that she is a reference-fag (aphantasiac) who can't into perspective or faces unless copied directly. Look at all the jumps in quality, it's a hackjob pretending to be vintage. This doesn't look like an MTG quality portfolio at all and she isn't even in the ballpark of the genre, yet she got hired.
I think this is my biggest gripe. It'll only get worse too, and truly good work is already essentially a legacy job.
The demands of the pipeline production and the oversaturation of low quality dogshit has basically paved the way for this and there is no going back.
WotC USED to care. It was my dream to work with them. I think of the hundreds I helped and the few who landed in these lofty places; I feel like it was a mistake, I feel like a fraud because of this shit.
Just photobash, min max, and plagiarize your way to victory. May the AI abomination consume you all.
Shit like this is going to be a BIG problem when people have the mindset of 'well as long as it 'works' it's fine'.
Way too many products these days are just straight up lying about their specs and most consumers just don't notice/care and praise it. Then it fails and that fuse you bought doesn't trip when needed and starts a fire, which you would have know about if Amazon didn't remove the review pointing it out because the seller complained their shit product was shit.
You only have to look at Boeing and the ship full of Pajeets that crashed into the bridge. The competency crisis is here.
Like those multi-million-dollar "games" that are just asset flips? Well, I guess those ones actually usually buy the Unreal assets before just slapping them into the game and calling it a day, though.
Appropriate music. Wizards is going to crumble from their hubris, greed, and ignorance. AI isn’t even the cause but the icing on the shit cake that they have been baking for years now.
Wizards will be fine because people will keep buying their shit. It will just become 100% AI generated and the "artists" will be out of a job.