You have to be genuinely braindead to think a furry would be okay with you making an AI generated version of their character, to promote an event no less.
I had an artist I hired 2 years ago ger back to me with 7 poses I never asked for all generated by AI. Shit ruined my week honestly. I would have rather just been scammed the normal way where they take your money and disappear. Made me way tighter with my money and less willing to commission now. Never know when your gonna have the ref too complicated to actually put in the effort and be the first one they feed to the sloppifier.
There's places like Vgen, which is anti ai and has reviews, and Fiverr which isn't anti ai but has reviews still. I usually go for artists on those services because they have actual reviews which I can gauge to see if they're trustworthy.
Someone outside that community probably wouldn't know just how detail oriented many people are about their fursonas. (Details that AI is bad at including.) There are also a lot of people seemingly incapable of understanding the idea of people hating AI because of artistic integrity.
I could see some middle aged convention owner honestly not realizing this was remotely controversial enough for someone to back out of the event, and I say that as someone who hates AI. Not everyone follows subs like these or knows a lot about furry culture.
Hopefully, with SonicFox being the most famous openly known/open furry I'm aware of (outside of the furry community), some of that awareness of furries' anti-AI trends will increase.
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u/postedpenguin 3h ago
what kind of idiot working at the convention thought this would be a good idea knowing who the guest isðŸ˜