DZ Files 4

[Lights]

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Complaining about AI art when graphics are stolen all the time, too funny.

hello mr. Cone c:

[Coolboyrulez0]

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Good on you taking the right path with replacing the gfx and actually respecting work people put in, unlike some sad pathetic people here.

That's all I gotta say see ya in another half year

XD

[aperson]

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please replace all of the background art with pictures from darkshark's portfolio


besides, if we didn't steal art how would we end up with memes like

[DarkZtar]

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Pack has been re-uploaded. dl and give it a try if you want.

also fwiw, i never intended for this to turn into a discussion on ai art usage or w/e. point is i probably should have known that ai art was touchy subject/viewed in a negative light by a sizeable amount of the community given i was asked to change bgs for mwc stuff and i didn't take the hint. no, using images taken from various artist pages online isn't any better, but i threw in a gfx txt info file this time around to at least give credit this time around. also i still have 0 gfx/art skills, have been dealing with a sprained wrist, and have been running on <4 hours of sleep per night for basically the past 3 weeks at this point so don't expect much.

[Mollocephalus]

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please replace all of the background art with pictures from darkshark's portfolio

based

[_choof]

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point is i probably should have known that ai art was touchy subject/viewed in a negative light by a sizeable amount of the community given i was asked to change bgs for mwc stuff and i didn't take the hint.

ai art is a touchy subject due to the ethical questions surrounding the use of human made art in the dataset, sure, but stepmania graphics is absolutely not the place to bring up ethics since, in some respects, outright stealing someone else's art and just slapping text and a filter on it in photoshop is worse
like are people upset because of copyright? for stepmania graphics that are almost always attached to a song with a copyright? lmao?

but i threw in a gfx txt info file this time around to at least give credit this time around.

part of the ethical discussion in regards to ai is also consent from those artists, doesn't matter if you credit them, if you didn't ask them explicitly that's where the problem lies. it's why ffr asks artists and labels for permissions first

also i still have 0 gfx/art skills, have been dealing with a sprained wrist, and have been running on <4 hours of sleep per night for basically the past 3 weeks at this point so don't expect much.

tbqh you are well known enough around here that you could just make your banners using that nps graph tool with solid black backgrounds and people will still play your charts

lemme put it this way, I saw framed mandalorian art for sale in la last weekend that was very clearly generated using ai and that upset me way more than ai stepmania graphics ever would

[kommisar]

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Literally 99% of all art for Stepmania banners is stolen, edited in Photoshop, and reused without their consent along with 99% of all music charted and stepped for the game. And the fact that SimfileDB no longer exists due to copyright takedown notices is proof that we're all in the wrong for it and yet we continue to do so to this day.

stepmania is built off PIRACY y'all holy fuck lmao

nobody is selling art here.

ps good paq