Hi everyone, so it's been a while since I uploaded a new one. But before we start talking about the topic at hand, I just wanted to say happy New Year to everyone and I hope all of you had a good celebration and time. So the reason I made this video is mainly about something which is a controversial topic. As most of you may know, AI generated images has been sprawling all over the internet, and a lot of people seem to be intrigued and happy about it, except for certain groups of people, which are the artists. As most of the artists out there, I am very much against it, but somehow I am trying to see the brighter side of it even though majority of it's impacts are negative. It can definitely hasten up the process for some artists who wants to have good composition or pose or concept ID and more. For people as well who are having difficulties with art and doesn't have time to practice the fundamentals to improve themselves, AI generated images are somehow short but for them. Imagine some people who are trying their best, grinding and practicing for tremendous amount of time, and learning every instant notes of anatomy, composition, color theory, perspective and other skillset required to be a good or even great artist. Someone along the way just types a word and they have an instant art. Isn't it demoralizing? Imagine artists who are supposed to get commission works since it's their main source of income, got tremendous negative impact on them and got broke, can't pay bills, support their family, etc. Instead of people supporting artists, they just type words and that's it. They already have what they call art. Worst part of this is that images generated from these AI art applications are stolen. From countless artists all over the world, not even receiving a single dime from these AI companies, not even knowing their worst are being fed to these machines to generate images. Artists learn the skills they have for months and even several years improve their craft, practicing every day for countless of art to provide the quality their clients deserve. It's not just a quick, just typing keywords and you already have a masterpiece. But there's another negative impact on these AI's broad images, thus the artist and it's one I currently experienced and somehow did not expect it. I didn't expect that I would be accused that my work was AI generated. Not all that. I explained and showed some past speed paints and other works, but the idea still that my works are AI generated is being pushed through by this person. I've been an artist for all my life. I'm an architect, they hold their profession and for the past five years I started my career as a concept and character artist as well. During the early stages of my artist life, it wasn't easy. Sure I have some artistic background regarding color values, theory, perspective, etc. Since those are some of the fundamentals as well for architecture, but the composition, storytelling, and anime, shading details, etc. was very different in comparison to the technical artistry of architecture. Just to show you, these are my previous works during my very early stages of being an artist. As you can see, skills improved along those several years. It's not an easy work. There are even times I give free commissions and stuff during the early stages, just so I could show clients I can do work and also expose myself on the world of painting and ginkying people's trust. I worked hard to develop my skills. Practice almost every day along with a full-time work. Sacrifice a lot of family time and gathering for the newly reasoned passion with the anime as an artist. During those stressful days, hard work and eventually success on a lot of final works and project. It is very humiliating for me and I think for everyone who board their passion into their art, to be accused that their work of being an AI-generated images is very disargining. So I think there are other things we can perceive yet on what this AI-generated image is good to do. But one thing is for sure. It does more harm than good. Be it on the decline of motivation for some people, stealing artists' work and fed to AI without consent, using AI for competitions, decline of income for artists, and many more. And the one they currently experienced. Which is distrust to legitimate artists out there. Who did the hard work and improve their skills? I'm not a guest technology. It has a lot of benefits. But it also has negative impacts. Creativity is the final frontier on what AI separates the humans. If you don't draw the line on what's ethical or not, time will come that heavy music, storytelling, dancing, and all other aspects of human creativity that keeps us passionate and distinct will evaporate. And the worst part is that in the future, we might even forget being human anymore. That we just become like machines who just encode through machineries instead of being through hard journey. With burning passion, we learn and improve. We form bonds through being together and collaborating ideas and creativeness. Please support legitimate passion at the hard breaking artist. Thank you guys for listening.