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Agreed... How did the art community deal with the witch hunts?

In my case the consequences are mounting. I've already essentially abandoned two communities over it. I'm sitting on human reviewed and tested mesa patches I can't bring myself to submit to upstream because of the AI stigma. I was using AI to revive some of my GCC work as well but abandoned it after their policy announcement. There seems to be no end in sight.

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It was bad in one that I was part of. First they had people put their work through those ai detectors and there were a bunch of false positives, so they started requiring “process videos” showing you actually working on the project. But then people started calling those AI generated. Nothing could satisfy them. So you’d have artists making handmade work, putting it through ai detectors, submitting process videos of them literally working on the piece, and still they were driven from the community because enough people just got toxic about it. Felt very Red Scare. “Are you now, or have you ever been, a user of AI?"

As an aside, I’ve never seen any pro ai people treat anyone not using ai like this.