There are two artists whose works I uploaded to my assets a while back, only to find out later that AI was involved. I've always been hesitant to post them, since I'm unsure if they're AI-generated or simply AI-assisted.
The first of these is Ganyo226. They're actually completely upfront about their use of AI; what I'm unsure about is to what extent AI is involved in their work. Their bio and post descriptions are seemingly machine-translated (rather poorly, I might add), which makes it hard to figure out what they're trying to say.
Their bio on Pixiv says "works draw almost by myself have sign, AIイラスト works haven't!" I'm assuming this means that any post with their signature was made by them, and anything without a signature was made by AI, but the broken English makes it very unclear. Still, I think my interpretation is correct, as it does seem to line up with what they post. Pretty much every post of theirs which lacks a signature is labelled as AI-generated, and vice-versa.
But then there's this post, which just makes things even more confusing. It has a signature, and is not labelled as AI, but the description implies that AI was involved in some capacity. Here's what it says:
"oh I'm late
her birthday is yesterday
actually this scean is done by AI assistantちゃん
and I think I have a long time never draw her so ...
I redraw tamaki and it spend a long time
yesterday I just finish the line part and color blocks
I can't put the first draft so think it must be late..
well the background I still use the AI part, the ambience really good!!
character maybe a little bit not as detail as the background, it still a good experience!"
Once again, the broken English makes it hard to figure out what they're trying to say. I genuinely cannot tell if they're saying that the work as a whole is AI-assisted, or if it simply has an AI-generated background. I'm leaning towards the latter, as it does seem similar enough in style to their non-AI works, but I'd prefer to get a second opinion before committing to uploading it.
The second of these is Yunbu M. They're also upfront about their use of AI, but I'm once again unsure about the extent to which they use it. Assuming Google Translate is accurate, their Pixiv bio says that they used to do hand-drawn work, but had to stop due to an arm injury, and now use AI. That makes it sound like everything they post is fully AI-generated, but it also says on their profile that they use Photoshop, and their Twitter bio says the use "AI + hand-painted finish" (also assuming Google Translate is accurate). Their Patreon bio also has a section that translates to this:
"Regarding the use of AI, the illustrations and manga on this page are
- Story and panel layout are done manually.
- AI is used to generate the base character and then effects are added.
- The AI model used has been confirmed to be commercially available and only licensed materials are used for training."
Is that enough for their work to qualify as AI-assisted? Part of the reason I'm so confused by this is that there doesn't seem to be a clear-cut rule for what level of AI assistance is "okay" on Danbooru. The wiki says it needs to have been "made with sufficient human involvement," but that's kind of vague. This grey area is the reason I typically avoid AI-assisted content when looking for potential uploads; the only reason I'm even considering these two is because they're already in my assets, but maybe they're better left unposted.
