Here at Planet Nude, we have already shared some articles on the growing concern of generative AI and how it can be a problem on multiple fronts. Environmental concerns, consent issues, corrupting our understanding of natural human bodies, and the theft and loss of livelihood for creators, just to name a few.
With that in mind, and seeing a disturbing trend of even naturists beginning to use genAI more often, a number of us Planet Nude artists have been making our own art to share across the internet and spread the word: AI just isn’t natural!
Brett Marcella
I will confess that I was the first person to kick this off, after a friend put the idea in my head. It took some time to determine what I wanted to do, but I eventually realized it had to be Asada and Mischa, who take so much after myself. I’ve been managing my own private figure drawing group for a decade now, and since last year have been making more of an effort to host sessions in public spaces, including our local library. It is my personal belief that a true antidote to AI is to make art with your own hands, with real tools, and with real people. Drawing a live model standing or sitting in front of you is wonderful, especially when others are with you doing the same. And if the model is holding up a middle finger while posing? That just makes things that much more fun.
Ed Bionic
The first person I spoke to about this, and who created a piece quicker than anyone else, was friend of the blog Ed Bionic, who made this short comic addressing the environmental impact of the usage of generative AI.
Reinder Dijkhuis
This was followed soon after by Reinder Dijkuis, creator of Greyfriar’s Isle. Reinder wanted to mimic the…we’ll just call them quirks, of genAI, particularly the frequent misspelling in a bad sans serif font and the weird, inherent randomness happening on a pixel level that’s responsible for AI images looking both strangely smooth and textured at the same time.
Zaftig Pink
Zaftig Pink brought his own sense of humor to the idea, with AI being represented by a giant computer unable to answer important questions that drive us.
Ahmed Raafat
Finally, from the log files of the Astro-Nudes, Ahmed Raafat takes us to Planet AI, a wasteland stripped of its resources and whose residents are incapable of critical thinking.
We encourage anyone that shares this feeling to contribute in any way they can, creating their own artwork and sharing it on social media. You need not even be a naturist or involve nudity. Show us the natural world around you, in your hand, with your mind and body. Together, we can show that humans do not now, nor ever have, needed machines to create for them. 🪐
Have some pro-human art to share? Send it to us!
A quick production note: creating the off-putting texture was super-easy because I used Glaze, an app that adds pixel-level misinformation about the style of the image in an attempt to trick LLMs into miscategorizing it. It's not an airtight defense against getting your art scraped by LLMs, far from it, but it's a part of my swiss cheese approach to protecting my images. At medium settings and with a paper texture already present in the image, it adds a bit of randomness to the texture. At maximum settings, it will show unmistakable distortion that looks a lot like what you find in a generated image.
I completely agree. I’m not an artist so don’t have art to contribute but want all to know that I appreciate human produced art and especially the art and comics from Planet Nude.