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I honestly don’t know, still locked out of my account until later today. But I’ll be purging all the furry toon and realistic stuff. Keeping just the abstracts.

You have to tomorrow.

I feel like there is a bonus challenge here for artists to 'fix' this goof.

Send me info.

Right now they are on inkbunny and Weasyl. I'm looking into additional options. Open for suggestions.

It is the new norm I guess. My mistake was not thinking it would actually affect me. I've always been relatively unknown in the fandom, despite my decades in it.

Oh! And for everyone begging me to let them hunt down the AI posters or whatever, please don't. It's fine. It sucks at the end of the day, but I won't stop making art. And tracking down strangers and wasting your energy on this isn't good for you or me. I appreciate it. I do. But I'm good.

Also, don't bug the FA mods about this. I cannot blame their opinion on the matter. Their communication skills SUCK. But I respect everything else about their decision.

Then, step two, I will resolve my emotional distress and feelings of helplessness in the time honored method for artists everywhere going back centuries. I will burn my enemies in Effigy! I will be making spoof style imagery mocking A.I. "When A.I. Goes wrong." So hang on for that ride.

Tomorrow I will remove all the content that is cartoon or realistic done within the past three years. I will keep the abstract stuff. Hopefully this will allow me to keep my FA going for my abstract imagery. That's the first step.

Now that I have had time to process what I am seeing I understand a few points. One, My FA is permanently flagged for plagiarism. I cannot disprove it. I never kept the evidence. Two, It will happen again. So time to take action.

I cannot blame the mods at FA for taking the side they did. Though I still think they could have communicated better. Being on the spectrum I don't get hints. You HAVE to spell it out or I don't just veer left when supposed to go right, I barrel through a bloody wall.

And the crux of my dilemma is I could not prove my image had come first or not. I don't keep the files that show the process. I rarely keep the sketches. I never needed them. They took up space. Only now can I see that was a mistake. I have no proof that I did work. And if I am seriously honest:

As a result, in my state of panic and fear I began conjuring all the usual demons of someone out to get me. Anxiety and depression look the lead again. Then about four days into the ban I finally get information and am shown the results. A 1 to 1 copy. There it was. Clear as day.

An image of mine turned up an exact match to an AI image somewhere and as a result I got flagged on FA for AI Tracing. My initial 7 day suspension left me confused. I was given so very little information I had no idea WHY I was suspended other than reason listed. There were no specifics or details.

Don’t take it out on FA on this. In all honesty, if I was on their end I’d be suspicious too. I was angry cause I thought some troll was trying to shut down my account. I didn’t see this coming.

All I can say is it is on twitter, but I don’t have a twitter account so I cannot even view it.

I really do. Post funeral at work and I feel like someone kicked my soul out of me.

At the end of the day, it’s not about what they can prove, but what I can prove. I never thought someone could AI-ify something and it would come back to flag against me. I didn’t know that was possible.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. My frustration with you and the other mod was clearly misdirected. I apologize.