Cubebrush Plays Hide and Seek with AI-Generated Art
In the world of digital art, where brushes cost more than real ones and tutorials promise to turn you into Rembrandt in a day, Cubebrush has decided to bring order to the chaos of artificial intelligence. 🎨 The platform now requires all AI-generated content to carry an identification label, albeit with a peculiar twist: if you label it correctly, they'll make it disappear as if by magic.
It's like saying "yes, you can bring your birthday cake to the party, but we'll keep it in the cupboard where no one can see it."
The New Rules of the Digital Game
The system works with the elegance of an elephant in a china shop:
- AI content must be labeled (surprise)
- Said content will be invisible in searches
- If you try to cheat, goodbye store
- No second chances, like in Tetris
Interestingly, the content isn't deleted, it's just hidden better than your keys when you need them. 🔑 Only accessible via direct link, like those files you save "just in case" and never see again.
The Landscape on Other Platforms
While Cubebrush opts for this "neither yes nor no, but quite the opposite" solution, other platforms have taken clearer stances:
- Flipped Normals: Total ban (like alcohol in parks)
- ArtStation: Allowed with a label (like allergens on menus)
- CGTrader: Human-only content (but without a lie detector)
TurboSquid takes contradiction to the next level: it bans selling AI art but allows using it to train more AI. 🤯 It's like selling knives but not allowing people to use them for cutting.
Artist Protection or Fear of Change?
Cubebrush's measure seems designed to protect human artists (the ones who still need to sleep and eat), but it also reflects the stage fright of many platforms in the face of the avalanche of automatically generated content. By hiding it instead of banning it, they keep one foot on each side of the river without getting completely wet.
In conclusion, if you're looking for authentic digital brushes, you might have better luck now. And if what you want is AI art, you can always ask ChatGPT to draw you something... as long as you don't try to sell it on Cubebrush, of course. 😉