Likely related to publication bias in the broadest sense.
It was early October when I started working as an AI painter. NovelAI had just appeared and there was a lot of controversy on twitter.
Although it has only been a little over three weeks since we started our activities, we have already reached about 20,000 followers on pixiv and about 1,000 followers on twitter.
On twitter, there are some who say "I hide pictures with AI tags. Some people said, "I think that pictures should be drawn by humans," but this was just "the opinion of vocal minority," a fact that I felt clearly when I looked at the numbers of my own account on pixiv. For the majority of users, it does not matter whether the erotic picture displayed in front of them was drawn by an AI or a human, as long as it is erotic and cute, it will directly lead to a number in the form of a rating.
... I may have experienced the so-called first-mover advantage for the first time in my life.
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