No AI in NaMoPaiMo

NaMoPaiMo is for everyone.

Art is for everyone.

But when I say everyone, what I really mean is humans.

Because art made by artificial intelligence isn't really art at all.

It's just terrible.

NaMoPaiMo and the NaMoPaiMo Facebook group have a zero tolerance policy for AI generated content. This includes "reference" materials, cheerleader posts and videos/reels.

As AI gets more and more sophisticated, it can be difficult to tell if something is real or fake. To make things just a little easier real horse color guru, Lesli Kathman shared three safe, no-AI-here sites for horse color reference photos. The first is her own blog, which has almost fifteen years of reference photos, most of which were taken by her and are pretty high resolution.

This is her older site, which still hosts her archives. These are slowly being moved to the other location, but for now, there's a lot of good content here.

Finally here's a wonderful list of references from Lesli's studio blog. This was specifically compiled to give artists a lot of AI-free resource options.

Of course, it goes without saying that except in a few, clearly marked instances all the pictures on this blog are also real photos taken by real humans, usually me.

For the record, humans - again, mostly me - wrote all of the words, too!

I am a realist. AI is more than just a passing fad. It is here to stay. I accept this, but I will continue to do what I can to keep it out of the arts. As long as I run NaMoPaiMo, it will be a safe space for human artists making art with their brain and their own two hands.