I've deleted all my art here in protest of the amount of Generative AI images I'm seeing on people's characters and character icons.
I don't care if you think this is childish, if you want to live in a world where artists can't get paid for their work and art is extinct (AI generated images are not art, they're images), and every soulless, mindless imitation of it is made by an equally soulless, mindless machine, then you don't deserve to see my art or have it harvested to make my skills obsolete.
Before you make an argument about money, plenty of artists offer to do art for free and if you'd spent some time looking around, maybe you'd have found someone willing to make it for you. If you think that's a gotcha after the above then it's not, because at least the artist actually has a choice in this case. Maybe I'd have done art for you for free as my last few were, but I guess you've blown that opportunity by not having the slightest iota of respect for the artists that fed your slop machines.
If you're against AI images or don't use it, thank you, this isn't directed against you and I'm sorry it has to be like this, but please push back against the people that use or proliferate AI generated images.