Watch out for AI generated/stolen work when buying art online.
There are a bunch of accounts on Fedi that all link Fine Art America pages and blogs on pixels.com and boost each others suspiciously generic art. Seems like some sort of art factory/AI art scam idk. @SharonCummingsArt@socel .net --online print store has 243 listings for "native american art" but most of it seems stolen or AI generated and this artist doesn't seem to be Native.
@Tzipporah The majority of accounts I have blocked are exactly that circle of #FineArtAmerica / #Pixels -promoting 'artists' who don't seem to exist (AFAICT from search engines) outside of their FAA accounts, & and all just boost each others' work. 🙄
I do know that some legitimate artists use FAA, but it's still a MASSIVE red flag for me.
Both websites confidently advertise their #AIArt gen services in their About pages. I don't understand why people are okay with that.