Does anyone else get a lot of hate from people for generating content using AI?
I like to make memes with help from SD to draw famous cartoon characters and whatnot. I think up funny scenarios and get them illustrated with the help of Invoke AI and Forge.
I take the time to make my own Loras, I carefully edit and work hard on my images. Nothing I make goes from prompt to submission.
Even though I carefully read all the rules prior to submitting to subreddits, I often get banned or have my submissions taken down by people who follow and brigade me. They demand that I pay an artist to help create my memes or learn to draw myself. I feel that's pretty unreasonable as I am just having fun with a hobby, obviously NOT making money from creating terrible memes.
I'm not asking for recognition or validation. I'm not trying to hide that I use AI to help me draw. I'm just a person trying to share some funny ideas that I couldn't otherwise share without to translate my ideas into images. So I don't understand why I get such passionate hatred from so many moderators of subreddits that don't even HAVE rules explicitly stating you can't use AI to help you draw.
Has anyone else run into this and what, if any solutions are there?
I'd love to see subreddit moderators add tags/flair for AI art so we could still submit it and if people don't want to see it they can just skip it. But given the passionate hatred I don't see them offering anything other than bans and post take downs.
Edit here is a ban today from a hateful and low IQ moderator who then quickly muted me so they wouldn't actually have to defend their irrational ideas.
